As an affiliate marketer: How to overcome the 1. cookie wins setup?
Lately I am having a hard time selling for one of my sites that has been a 'cash cow' the last 3 years. The company I sell for may not necessarily have changed their general cookie setup, but they have just become much more active in ensuring that they get the 1. cookie.
The way I see it, the only way around that for me as an affiliate is to entice the website visitors to clear their cookies, before they continue to click my affiliate link and buy the product.
Difficult, but surely not impossible. And if only 5 people's purchases per day get attributed to me like this, then this will be an additional $100. I'm OK with that, esp. if I can set up the enticement to do so in a 'set it and forget it' way
My question:
Has anybody made good experiences with getting around the 1. cookie wins challenge, and if so, how? What could be a good way to entice someone to clean cookies?
I am sure that there are several brilliant affiliate marketing minds in this group who can share a thing or two about that
Thank you in advance
David
EDIT: After the first comments came in, here an add-on: It's the very same merchant who has stepped up their game in spreading their own cookie first, e.g. through Facebook ads but also through writing blog posts for SEO. They do want to have the affiliates still on board, to 'objectively' write about the product and to spread the word. But by the time somebody interested in the product ends up on my website, very likely this visitor already has a cookie from the merchant. So my websites serves as a seemingly objective and positive review of the product, but my cookie won't result in commission anymore because the merchant has a 1. cookie wins setup and they have, very likely, done a good job in ensuring that they are in many cases the first one to place the cookie.
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