Originally Posted by john238

So are you saying you prefer there to be a 30 minute cookie set rather than a 30 day cookie. If this is the case then I think you need to sit down and thing how cookies work and why it would be much better to your advantage for the program to use a 30 day cookie and if not a lifetime cookie.

With a 30 min cookie the person has to signup within 30 min's so that you get that referral, now if the person signups in 31 min's then you would have not received that referral. With a 30 day referral that means you can get that referral signup to you no matter if they signed up in 29 days time.

So in other words, if someone that went to your site and then went directly to the main site 29 days later you still should get the referral in your account.

If the visitor goes to another site and that site gets the referral then that is the risk, but there is still a chance that you will receive it with a 30 day cookie, if it's a 30 min's cookie then you have no chance of getting it at all unless they directly go to your site again and signup within the next 30 min's after clicking through to the site from yours.

Hope you understand what I am trying to explain here.

Originally Posted by ian

what has a 30 minute cookie?
from an affiliate marketers perspective, longer cookies are always better.