kate Smith
March 2nd, 2009, 02:19 AM
Cookies and Affiliate Sales Tracking
As we all know, Cookies is the base on which the entire affiliate marketing industry works. Cookie base affiliates tracking has many advantages and disadvantages and due to that reason many affiliates are not willing to join Affiliate Programs which track the sales only based on the Cookies.
121doc has upgraded its affiliate tracking software which is now able to track the sales on the base on Cookies, Browser Sessions, IPs, URLs and a new and advance feature Flash Cookies.
What is Flash Cookies?
Flash Cookies is a new and advance tracking method where the cookies are managed by the Flash Runtime Environment and not by the browser. In the older methods, the Cookies were stored by the Browsers and they were cleared when the affiliates click on the "clear private data" from the browser settings.
How Flash Cookies work?
When the visitor, click on the affiliate link, the affiliate tracking software will detect the click and the flash which run on the browser will store a special version of the cookie. This cookie is different from the normal cookie and not cleared by the browser when the visitor clears the private data or delete cookie from his/her system. That will prevent the cookie on the visitor's computer and that will increase the chance of sales commission when the visitor buy from 121doc on his/her next visit.
As we all know, Cookies is the base on which the entire affiliate marketing industry works. Cookie base affiliates tracking has many advantages and disadvantages and due to that reason many affiliates are not willing to join Affiliate Programs which track the sales only based on the Cookies.
121doc has upgraded its affiliate tracking software which is now able to track the sales on the base on Cookies, Browser Sessions, IPs, URLs and a new and advance feature Flash Cookies.
What is Flash Cookies?
Flash Cookies is a new and advance tracking method where the cookies are managed by the Flash Runtime Environment and not by the browser. In the older methods, the Cookies were stored by the Browsers and they were cleared when the affiliates click on the "clear private data" from the browser settings.
How Flash Cookies work?
When the visitor, click on the affiliate link, the affiliate tracking software will detect the click and the flash which run on the browser will store a special version of the cookie. This cookie is different from the normal cookie and not cleared by the browser when the visitor clears the private data or delete cookie from his/her system. That will prevent the cookie on the visitor's computer and that will increase the chance of sales commission when the visitor buy from 121doc on his/her next visit.