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Bobby · **Joined**: 12 Jul 2003 **Posts**: 764

I found the following on Clickbank. If I understand this correctly, if I refer someone to a merchant site in hopes of getting an affiliate commission and the person doesn't purchase within 30 days, I won't earn a referral commission.

Does anyone else read this differently?

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We call each tracker (eg, the ClickBank Tracker) a "gadget". Each gadget is associated with exactly one ClickBank account name.

A "session" refers to a single continuous period of time a consumer spends surfing the web. For the purpose of tracking, a session begins when a consumer first hits a web page that contains a gadget. That session "expires" when a number of minutes pass without hitting any gadgets. At present the expiration time is set to 30 minutes.

In any one session, the first gadget the consumer hits determines the one affiliate that will be associated with the remainder of that session. All subsequent gadgets the consumer hits for the remainder of that session are considered "referrals" by that affiliate.

The consumer cannot start a new session by simply shutting down and restarting the browser (or machine) a few minutes later. To start a new session the consumer would need to avoid hitting any gadgets until the session expires.

If during some session the consumer makes a purchase at a merchant, the affiliate who receives credit is determined as follows. Find the most recent session in which there was a referral to that merchant. If such a session exists, then credit goes to the affiliate from that session. If there is no such session in the last 30 days, then no affiliate is awarded credit.

At the moment all tracking is performed via cookies. We have several other tracking methods that will be added once the system is more widely distributed.

Guest · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 4:32 am Post subject:

damn clickbank starting to make things difficult. how about if someone comes to your site with the new clickbank code you got 30 days to make the commission and how about if they dont decide to buy until the fifteenth day, but by then they could have gone to another site with somebody promoting a different clickbank merchant with the code the customer finally buys the product on the fifteenth day you referred them too but you dont get the commission but the other site with the clickbank tracking code they had gone to earlier do get the commission because it his username thats being tracked and they didnt even referr them to the product, you did, and the other clickbank affiliate get the commission that was suppose to be yours Evil or Very Mad