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The script checks to see if the visitor came via a search engine, if so they change the tracking code.
This means if someone ever manages to get an SE to rank a link with their affiliate code, it would be changed. It shouldn’t (edit, didn’t mean it would/should) effect links from an affiliate site.
kamilla wrote:That made me check my own links to partypoker. And one thing I found was
that the landing page I’m linking to:
http://www.partypoker.com/download/index.htm?wm=2033831 only a few of the links carry my aff id. None in the menu bar/bottom of the page, or search box has the aff id.That is a great big no-no too!!!!
There are a whole lot of things that are not right with PP.
I hope a rep shows up sometime soon.
Thanks for your reply.
That’s what I thought, but wasn’t sure. I mean, it’s a huge company and the code is right there for anyone to see… I just found it hard to belive that they would just steal their affiliates hard SEO work like that.I e-mailed them ofcourse, but so far no reply. But it’s the weekend so maybe I’ll hear back from them next week.
PP uses cookies they don’t need to pass code via url.
Try it yourself, go via your link and click a few links then downoload. the download page source will have your code in it
note my correction above, i meant “That shouldn’t effect traffic referred from somewhere besides an SE.”
sorry
Thanks Croup and Amcan – that clears this one up.
croupier wrote:PP uses cookies they don’t need to pass code via url.Try it yourself, go via your link and click a few links then downoload. the download page source will have your code in itYes, as many programs does. But why then do some links carry the ref id and others don’t… ? It just doesn’t seem kosher to me…
But regardless – the fact that they so bluntly steal affiliates SEO work is bad enough :dafingers
the fact that they so bluntly steal affiliates SEO work is bad enough
I don’t see how they’re doing this.
There are several long posts in their forum. You need to read them if you promote PP.
Especially the statement about some other affiliate who is able to provide your fun players with first deposits being allowed to do so and make them his/hers.
croupier wrote:I don’t see how they’re doing this.
If you can’t see this then it’s because you’re not reading. As I stated in previous post:One thing I found was that the landing page I’m linking to:
http://www.partypoker.com/download/index.htm?wm=2033831 There’s a script that, what appears to be, calling a different aff id with a changeLink if my link has been indexed by SEs: function changeLink(){
if (ref.indexOf(‘google.’)!=-1)value=2357235;
if (ref.indexOf(‘yahoo.’)!=-1)value=2565141;
if (ref.indexOf(‘msn.’)!=-1)value=2565142;
if (ref.indexOf(‘ask.’)!=-1)value=2571517;
if (ref.indexOf(‘altavista.’)!=-1)value=2571538;[/CODE]
That is stealing affiliates SEO work.[CODE] function changeLink(){
if (ref.indexOf(‘google.’)!=-1)value=2357235;
if (ref.indexOf(‘yahoo.’)!=-1)value=2565141;
if (ref.indexOf(‘msn.’)!=-1)value=2565142;
if (ref.indexOf(‘ask.’)!=-1)value=2571517;
if (ref.indexOf(‘altavista.’)!=-1)value=2571538;[/CODE]
That is stealing affiliates SEO work.I think kamilla has a valid concern here, and I hope someone from Party Poker will explain the “changeLink” script.
Can someone please copy this thread into the Party Poker area? Thanks.
I have moved this thread to their forum so they will be notified of its existance and can deal with the issues.
If they care to.
The only way this code would affect an affiliate is if they had managed to get a party poker URL, with there affiliate code into the search results.
even someone who ranked for “party poker” for clone site such as “playatpartypoker.com”, would have the traffic from the SE come to playatpartypoker.com.
so when the player lands at party poker the referrer is “playatpartypoker.com” not the SE.
i think that’s the point that Croup is making?
So what you are saying is that if one sends traffic directly to party poker instead of going through another site, PP steals the traffic?
Dominique wrote:So what you are saying is that if one sends traffic directly to party poker instead of going through another site, PP steals the traffic?For example, via Google AdWords? If someone clicks a Google AdWords link with an affiliate tag in the link, would the affiliate receive credit for the referral? The referrer, in this case, would not be “playatpartypoker.com” (or whatever) — I think it would be Google. In which case….[HTML]function changeLink(){
if (ref.indexOf(‘google.’)!=-1)value=2357235;[/HTML]
