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A question came up at the bottom of another thread talking about the new cookie based referral tracking (which doesn’t seem to work with Firefox or IE7’s default installation) about how long the old affiliate link style will continue to work for UltimateBet affiliates.
For those who have missed it, the old style link looked something like this: http://www.ultimatebet.com/?UBAffID=XXXXX where the xxxxx would be your affiliate ID.
In the new method, UB wants you to link directly to http://www.ultimatebet.com, but serve an image from their affiliate php server which will (in theory) install a 3rd party cookie on the person’s machine which will track the referral, however Firefox apparently blocks all 3rd party cookies and from my experiments and questions of others I have not found one person using IE7 that isn’t having these cookies blocked because there is no Compact Privacy Policy (see http://www.compactprivacypolicy.org/) for the UB website serving the cookies.
I have let Marcela know about the problems I am seeing with the new cookie method and she says she is talking to their Tech department about it, but it would be useful to know how long the old link style will work to know if it is really panic time yet.
Marcela?
My link format to UB is
http://affiliates.absolutepoker.com/processing/clickthrgh.asp?btag=XXXX
Well that’s what my links to absolute poker looked like before I dumped absolute poker (at least temporarily) from my sites…
If you are trying to describe a way to use the AP links to promote the UB brand I’m interested.
I do know that Absolute Poker purchased UltimateBet some time ago (ugh) and I was a UltimateBet affiliate long before that. The current affilite HTML link generator produces links like this:
In the UB affiliate site the HTML link generation generates links like these:
[HTML]
[/HTML]
Notice that the href is going directly to the site with no affiliate ID passed as a parameter. The bnrimg.php page tries to generate a cookie to track the user but it seems to be blocked by Firefox and IE7.
yeah your playing with odds with that link. Not worth the space one a page 100
although its not a bad idea to have the image load on your home page lol,, what a crock.
Just to update this, no reply yet from Marcela. To me this seems like a pretty huge deal for UB affiliates. Am I missing something?
Marcela just replied to me and said they’ll be reverting to the old tracking method next week. Good news!
Good news!Good news!Good news!:santa2:
I have just started promoting Ultimate Bet and I can only see this new style of link i.e the href pointing directly to http://www.ultimatebet.com, how do I use the old one???
Hi Guys!
We will have the new and old way available in the website.
For now you can use this type of link:
http://www.ultimatebet.com/?ubAffilID=XXXXX
where XXXXX is the campaign ID you want the banner or text link linked to.
Enjoy the holidays!
