There’s no industry standard for cookie time, but 1-5 days is definitely not enough for 50/50 revshare program (i guess 7 days is ok, a month is perfect. many programs have it set to 255 days - highest possible option for ccbill program). But it’s up to you to decide. If you find a program u promote in that list - contact the owner and ask him to increase its time. Once he does this - he needs to send me a line at
daizzzySIGNBUCKSDAILYcom
and i’ll remove him from the list
The bad thing about CCBill company, which doesn’t like get itself involved into any issue of that kind, is that default cookie setting is 3 days. If you CCBill guys want better relations with webmasters, set it to 7 days as default (applying for new programs).
That’s a long list to wade through, my eyes are blurry after trying to pick out the gay sites, though found a few like uncutcoxxx, hardbrit lads, uksl, emo profits, uncut cash.
Aaron at GayGeek just emailed me about this. I didnt even realise about the cookie thing - my website designer set all that up for me and never mentioned cookies. I just spoke to him about it and he said 3 days was the default setting. So Ive asked him to change it to 30 days - if Id known about it I would have had it set like that form the start. So to all of my affiliates, Im really sorry about that! (Wish someone had told me before!) But from now on, its 30 days.
You know, there really should be an industry standard for cookie settings. 7-10 days minimum. I realize that sponsors can make mistakes, but when they’re informed of this and then don’t do anything about it, no one should promote them period. I bet they’d increase their cookie durations pretty fast then. LOL.
It’s a matter of my costs for bandwidth, time and effort being put into promoting someone who isn’t playing fair ball. Affiliate traffic isn’t “free” traffic, we pay for it.
This isn’t a generalized target of course. Just toward those programs who choose to take affiliate traffic for granted and not play fair.
All members have access to all three sites. Depending on the content captured, we update our network of sites typically 3-5 times per month which seems to keep most of our members quite happy.
Let me know if you need anything else and I’ll be happy to assist.
Daizzy, how do I check the cookies of a program(Gangsta Cash - rfgangstaz)? don’t see it on the list, but it is fairly new, coz it used to be under Flava Gold.
I have contacted some of the programs on the list that are friends or people I work closely with, we’ll see what happens, will post the outcome.
Load up your browser. Pull up your options and have it open a window with your cookie list. All CCBill cookies have CCBill in the name, so type “CCBill” to winnow the list to just their cookies.
If you don’t need any CCBill cookies on your computer, wipe out all the ones that are there. (It makes it easier to spot the new ones).
Then click on the affiliate link for whatever CCBill site you want to test. You’ll notice a new CCBill cookie appears. The # of the cookie (click on it to see the details of what’s in the cookie) will be the CA# of the site.
Then look at the expiration and it’ll show you when the cookies are set to expire. I’m a bit uncertain how CCBill cookies handle changes in time zones (or if they do), so assume that the expiration date may be off by whatever number of hours you’re away from GMT (that’s 5 hours for East coast USA, 8 hours for Pacific time).
Anyway, the expiration date will give you a close indicator of when the cookie is set to expire. The default cookie is 3 days. A decent time is at least 7 days. And a good time is 30 days. Anything higher than that should be considered a bonus.
I’m not sure what a cookie says if it is set to expire at a time of 0, meaning whenever the browser is closed. It may say the exact time the cookie was set, or it might say “end of browser session” or somesuch. I haven’t pulled one up yet to see for sure.
interesting - never paid much attention to this b4.
funny I don’t see any ccbill cookies in IE8 (medium settings) but I do on another PC with IE7. Starting another thread to see if anyone else is seeing this.
