I was reading teatreebergamot's post Why Affiliates Should Avoid Amazon Associates and I agree with what she writes.
It's all about cookies and how Amazon sets these for just 24 hours. The problem with this is that many people take longer than 24 hours to make up a purchase. So if you send a prospective customer today to Amazon, and the next day they order something, after the 24 hours is up, you get nought - zero commission.
In the post I have mention the writer shows, through stats from another affiliate program, how the majority of people purchase after 24 hours. I've thought about this and, if I'm making a decent sized purchase, I often don't buy for a couple of days - after I've done price checks and thought things over etc. I did this recently with a television I bought online, it took me two days to decide.
So, is it partly the 24 hour cookies that is preventing a lot of us from earning any decent commission with Amazon?
I say 'partly' because there are also other things to consider as well, but it's something to think about.
Good luck,
Mike.
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