How To Use Affiliates To Promote Products

Are you a publisher?

I've been wondering about something like this for a while, except my question is slightly different - I'm posting it here as the thread is too similar to warrant a second one:

Suppose you promote your product through 2 different affiliate processors, i.e. ClickBank and PayDotCom. Let's say an affiliate drives someone to the site via their ClickBank link. The visitor checks out the site but does not immediately purchase (or subscribe). Two days later they revisit the site and purchase, except they use the PayDotCom link or they buy directly using a credit card or PayPal. The original affiliate, who did all the ground work, does not end up getting credit.

I believe I could resolve all of this by capturing all the information (affiliate link, IP address,date) in a database when the prospect first visits the site, then using this information when the prospect makes the decision to buy. However how do I convince affiliates that I'm doing this accurately, and that my system may actually be more accurate than the cookie-based one their affiliate processor uses?

I'd like to use multiple affiliate processors to (A) increase the number of potential affiliates and (B) to avoid having all my eggs in one basket. But if it becomes a turn-off for affiliates then it's just not worth it.

Does anyone else have experience using multiple affiliate processors? I'd love to hear it.

Bill

There a couple of different ways that I have seen it done. Personally I have a sales website just for clickbank and I make sure that it is there just for that. I want my affiliates to get paid and the more they get paid the more they will work to make me and them more sales. So I don't want any confusion in the website that my afffiliates are driving traffic to.

However, I do also have an authority site in this particular niche which I drive traffic to and then I have a sales page set up on this with ejunkie as the payment processor. I never ever mention this authority site in relation to anything I do with my clickbank site, I keep them totally separate.

However, I have also seen it done where someone uses the same website and has one page for a shopping cart and one for clickbank. personally I don't like this approach as when I do affiliate sales for someone elses product I want to know that when I send someone to that website that no matter what page they click on on the site, I will get paid.

Thanks for your comments.

I see the issues here - it is difficult to promote your product in 2 places without confusion occurring.

Maybe it is better to have replicated websites?