This was a colossal misunderstanding. The cookies actually never had a time limit on them at all, at any time.
I looked at the cookie with Fire Fox 3.05 a few nights ago when the issue was first mentioned by the Professor and again just now.
It works the same now as it did then and I did delete the cookie.
Now basically, the affiliate that “makes the sale” is the credited affiliate. The newest cookie will always overwrite the previous cookie, as of a few days ago.
I delete the cookie before this test:
Also I’m assuming the SourceID is the Affiliate ID.
I clicked a Rome Casino link on Affiliate site A and examined the cookie and it wrote it with Affiliate A. I also saw the Affiliate A SourceID when hovering over the links on the Rome Casino landing page.
I closed the Affiliate A tab for Rome Casino.
I then clicked a Rome Casino link on Affiliate site B and again was taken to the Rome landing page, even though in the address bar it had the Rome Casino URL with an Affiliate B sourceID hovering over any of the landing page links still showed Affiliate Site A SourceID in the bottom status bar.
Examining the cookie also revealed that the first Affiliate (A) SourceID was still there.
Is it the first affiliate that gets the sale or the last?
Also how come the Tracking field expires on Feb. 22 and the SourceID expires on Feb 6?
thanks
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