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Really? I would think the big dog for affiliate payments is Amazon, and they don't really have much in the way of coupons.
by smackfu 14y ago
Really? I would think the big dog for affiliate payments is Amazon, and they don't really have much in the way of coupons.
- AznHisoka 14y agoAmazon has a 24-hour cookie. So you get paid even if someone clicks on your link and buys something else later in the day. I wouldn't be surprised if this accounted for a huge majority of their affiliate payouts. Cases where someone buys a product directly from Amazon after reading a review are a minority, imo.
- makomk 14y agoYeah. At one point I was seeing pop-up ads on some sites that were simply random searches on Amazon - I assume they were trying to take advantage of Amazon's affiliate scheme.
- unreal37 14y agoI can remember talking with the Amazon Affiliate people in a conference call 10 years ago. They have been leaders in this game a long time, and I can believe they have tightened their security on fraud as tight as it can go.
- kposehn 14y agoAmazon is not that big of a program actually. They have compelling data offerings, but the 24-hour cookie is a liability and there are far fewer driving traffic since Google went to town on spammy sites.
- nzealand 14y agoMy wife represented someone busted for being an Amazon cookie stuffer. He was essentially a script kiddie who paid for the script. He wasn't as successful. I think Amazon devotes more resources to tracking this kind of fraud.