A little self promotion

[sarettah]

Originally posted by baddog@Apr 17 2004, 09:16 AM
If the surfer turns off his cookies (which I really don't think happens that often) then a different affiliate may get credit for the signup. Not a hell of a lot I can do about that.

That is not shaving in my book, shaving is when I take a certain percentage of your signups and just don't give you or anyone else credit for the signup, and just keep all the profit for myself.

Ok, when you cannot associate the signup with any affiliate, then who gets the credit. If you are a typical program, then you get the credit (rightfully so).

This inadvertently becomes a shave of sorts. A certain percentage of signups to your site are not going to be trackable under any circumstances. If the program takes those signups, then the webmaster who sent them is not going to get credit for them. It is not a purposeful shave and a really really good program might go to lots of extra effort to make sure that if they can associate the signup in any way, they do. But there will always be a certain percentage out there that the program gets to keep for itself.