Paying Multiple Comission On Single Sale
Let me set the scene with a brief overview of how most networks track sales:
1. User clicks on affiliate link
2. This adds a cookie to the users browser
3. User buys your product
4. On your sales confirmation page a tracking pixel cross references data from cookie to see if it is a sale from their network.
Now suppose you advertise on 3 different networks and you have 3 tracking pixels on your confirmation page.
Imagine the following happens:
1. User clicks on affiliate link fron network 1 then exits site
2. User clicks on affiliate link fron network 2 then exits site
3. User clicks on affiliate link fron network 3 then buys then product
Your confirmation page tracking pixels will register a sale at all 3 networks. So you will pay comission on all 3 networks.
In the grand scheme of things this will probably not occur too much, but with cookie stuffing being very easy to do, I don't want people exploiting this loophole. Especially as I want maximum exposure and to be on as many networks as possible.
The easiest thing I guess is to have multiple sites, but my site is several hundred pages, has lots of different products and inticate coding so its not the best option for me.
I spoke with tech support at one network and they had a very good system. They have an API that allows me to query the date the cookie was added. Then I can tag on a "void" value to the tracking pixel if there is a newer cookie present. The problem with this is that it only works if every network has the same facility.
I don't think that every network will have such a good system though so I thought I would throw this out into the open incase I am missing something blistering simple that I can do to get round this problem?
Anyone else advertise on multiple networks?
PS. I am giving a high comission rate so could possibly end up losing money on a sale if I dont track this.
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