I’ve also not had any traffic or ranking dips on either of my sites - both are continuing to grow week over week. 

Dad’s telling their daughters how to dress is not normal. 

That’s your idea of a meltdown?

Interesting, I’m guessing this is very much regional dependent. 

Interesting, I’ve never heard that. I wonder if it’s a regional thing. I was able to have my hand tattooed back before I was heavily tattooed and it wasn’t even questioned.   

May I ask what area of the country you live in? I’m guessing it’s probably pretty dependent on that!

Why would a tattoo shop refuse a tattoo because it’s “visible”? Weird snark…

Yes, it’s totally normal to say “take a walk down memory lane”. 

You implied he might be bisexual with a broken penis because he’s “old” and “single”. How do you not see that what you said was wrong on so many levels?

And yet you’re posting it here so that it can live on in other places on the internet as well. Bravo. 👏🏻 

I feel like my mom wrote this, minus the nanny part. 

Maybe we could not talk about women’s bodies. 

Just as a follow up though - most corporate affiliate programs are going to have a similar model in that a product needs to be added to the cart & purchased within a certain time frame in order for commission to be paid out. 

However sometimes small businesses run on a different type of affiliate program that doesn’t cost as much money long term. 

I run a small business and I used to have an affiliate program. The way my program worked was that our affiliates had their own custom links (and coupon codes) and people had to use those direct links (or codes) in order for them to receive a commission. We didn’t use cookies at all so there was no time frame involved, as long as a product was purchased through a direct link, or through using the coupon code, then commission was paid out. 

HOWEVER in that situation, affiliates could only make a commission off that customer one time. 

So say we have an affiliate, Jane. 

Jane makes posts on social media promoting our product and she has her own link that will allow customers to get a 20% discount and then Jane receives a 10% commission. 

Customer Sally uses Jane’s coupon code and purchases a product from us for the first time. Sally gets a discount & Jane gets a commission. 

Two months later Sally wants to place another order so she clicks on Jane’s link to come back to our website. Since she’s already purchased in the past Sally is no longer eligible to use our discount code and Jane does not receive commission, even though the customer used the affiliate link to purchase. 

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Yes, you’d still have Amazon cookies in the situation you described. 

I’m not familiar with LTK at all so I don’t know their policies unfortunately but they are likely very similar to Amazon. 

Amazon uses last click attribution so whoever’s link you clicked last will get commission. 

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I understand what you’re saying but I still answered your question above.  

Commission is based on cookies - it doesn’t matter what product you clicked on because cookies have nothing to do with individual products. 

I feel like I answered that situation in my comment above, lol. 

If it’s that bothersome just don’t click the link. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Clearing your cookies depends on what device you’re using, if you’re using the app, etc. If you don’t know how to do it you can google your device for instructions. 

Please see my comment below for an answer :)

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Some examples would be: 

Person A clicks on influencer link and adds a dress to cart. They come back 3 hours later and complete their transaction and the influencer receives commission. 

Person B clicks on a link then browses through Amazon adding several items to their cart and immediately checks out. The influencer receives commission on the entire cart. 

Person C clicks on an influencer link for shoes, does some browsing but decides not to add anything to their cart. 13 hours later they remember they are due to order their face cream. They go back to Amazon directly and add the cream to their cart. Since it was within the 24 window, the influencer gets commission on the face cream even though they linked a pair of shoes. 

Person D clicks an influencer link, adds a product to their cart immediately but decides to think it over for a bit. They come back a week later and that item is still in their cart from when they added it through the influencer link. They checkout what’s been sitting in the cart and the influencer receives a commission since the product was added to the cart within the first 24 hours and remained in the cart that entire week. 

Person E clicks on an influencer link, adds a product to their cart but doesn’t check out. 36 hours later they come back to Amazon and remove that product from their cart after they decide they don’t want it. They choose to add a different product to their cart instead. They checkout but the influencer does NOT receive commission as the products purchased were NOT added to the cart within 24 hours. 

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This is actually not accurate for Amazon though it gets tossed around as fact all the time. 

For Amazon, when someone clicks on an influencer link, they have to add items to their cart within 24 hours of clicking on the link in order to receive any commission. 

If a product is added within 24 hours of clicking and then they checkout before the cart expires (per Amazon this is typically about 89 days) then they will get commission on whatever was added to the cart within those 24 hours.  

Alternatively if someone adds something to their cart within 24 hours then comes back 3 days later, removes that product but adds something else, the influencer still does not receive any commission since that original item was removed from the cart. Whatever is added to the cart within the first 24 hours must remain there for the entire time between adding to cart and checking out in order for them to receive the commission. 

If someone clicks a link and doesn’t add something to their cart within 24 hours then the influencer will not receive any commission. 

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Oooof. 

A quick peek at their website shows a significant number of unsupported health claims so I’m not surprised they have a lawsuit filed against them. This is a HUGE no-no in the supplement industry.  

Your username is quite appropriate. 

AI is most definitely not able to create as high quality content as humans can - at least not yet. 

Agreed fully. I run an extremely small e-commerce business (as in I’m the only employee and the only thing I outsource is my shipping) in an extremely niche industry. I only sell 4 products that range from $28-$45 each and I do not do any paid marketing - strictly SEO. (It’s worth noting that my product is a consumable and maximum monthly order value maxes out at $90 a person.)

I generate over $500k in revenue a year just from SEO. I create new high quality content on a regular basis and our traffic is only continuing to grow.

I’m in the process of launching a sister brand in what honestly amounts to an over saturated market so I assumed I would have a lot of difficulty getting the new site to rank since there’s a great deal of competition. The site has been live for 2 weeks, only has 5 pages of (high quality) content and I’m already ranking for over 30 competitive keywords with multiple clicks to the website.

I’m firmly convinced that SEO is nowhere near dead and that nothing compares to creating high quality, white hat content.