Affiliate Marketing Tycoon

**virtualmarket** · 06-27-2010, 07:53 AM

There are many affiliate programs and networks im working with, so many of them are reliable, with good stats and revenue, different products and specific traffic sources etc etc.

I would like to point one think, i have found VERY important in affiliate marketing and i know not many affiliates are taking care of - the name is Cookie Lasting Time

Each affiliate links plug a cookie, but is this cookie last for ever? for 30 days? for 7 days? for 24 hours? for 1 hour?

Depends on the affiliate system and the product. Make sure to know this info, before start working with each, it will help you to make more money.

All the best

**chrishirst** · 06-27-2010, 07:58 AM

Surely you mean the "Cookie lifetime"

**virtualmarket** · 07-04-2010, 02:54 AM

indeed

**Daniel Green** · 07-04-2010, 06:58 AM

You make a good point! The cookie lifetime is a very important point. The only way you are going to get paid as an affiliate, is if the affiliate program knows who originally referred the customer. Affiliate programs use the cookies to track which customer came from which affiliate.
This is especially important for niches that have repeat customers and give affiliates ongoing commissions. I work for a pharmacy program with a 12 month cookie period, and this allows affiliates to earn commissions on the same customers for an entire year.

**jeffereeno** · 07-22-2010, 09:32 AM

12 months is a very long time. Have you ever checked if they do indeed set the cookie that long ? Most of the networks and offers I work with are no more than 30 days and many only 7.

**EmpyreRam** · 07-27-2010, 02:46 PM

yes cookie lifetime is important as you can get sales after some period of time. cookies lifetime is very important and must be taken care of by each affiliate network.