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Discussion in 'Amazon' started by tsc, Dec 24, 2007.

  1. #1
    Somethings not right here... maybe...

    Last night I managed to secure a bunch of shit-hot keywords for a product I want to promote on Amazon. Within a short while I had ads up and running on Adwords and by the end of the night I had around 2k impressions and 52 clicks.

    I checked my Amazon stats this morning and there were no sales recorded against me. I thought I might have gotten one. The ad clicks though were recorded.

    Anyway, this morning I was wondering if I was doing something wrong. I cleared all cookies from the machine here and went to a product page on Amazon via a url that has my Amazon id embedded in it. I then checked my cookies.

    I thought I would have seen an amazon cookie that was due to expire in 24 hours - ie an affiliate cookie. But no. Only two session id cookies were there (neither with a reference to my affiliate id) - both of which due to expire 31 December.

    Is it just me or is something not right here? Why am I seeing these cookies and not an affiliate cookie with a 24 hour lifespan?

    Cheers.
     
    tsc, Dec 24, 2007 IP
  2. tsc

    tsc Well-Known Member

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    OK - second question: I just tried another test. I again went to a product page via a url that contains my affiliate id. I then clicked on the proceed to check-out button.

    1. A new session cookie has appeared with a lifespan of 10 minutes.
    2. The url for the next page (ie checkout) has NO reference to my affiliate id.

    Should I see my affiliate id embedded in the url of the checkout page?

    Ta
     
    tsc, Dec 24, 2007 IP
  3. fxx

    fxx Peon

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    You have not made any mistakes. Amazon safes the affiliate/tracking IDs within the sessions for 24 hours.

    There just were no sales.
     
    fxx, Dec 24, 2007 IP
  4. tsc

    tsc Well-Known Member

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    Thanks mate - guess I was looking too hard for a physical cookie. Thought I would see one given all the references you see here on DP to an affiliate 'cookie'.

    Got another question though.

    Amazon defines "Direct Link Clicks" as those leading to a specific product page.

    Last night I had 55 'Other' clicks and NO Direct link clicks, even though all my ad's destination url's lead straight to a specific product's page.

    Any ideas why?

    Ta

    :)

    (BTW in the last few days I have had 120 'Other' clicks and only five Direct Link Clicks. The ad's I have used for this time were the same as those used in the example above. ie they use the same destination url's...)
     
    tsc, Dec 24, 2007 IP
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    The same when I started before. I've got 200 adwords click but no sales. Few days after, I got sale day by day. May be they returned to buy. That's cool.
     
    sircoulson, Dec 24, 2007 IP
  6. tsc

    tsc Well-Known Member

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    Fingers crosed... :)
     
    tsc, Dec 24, 2007 IP
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    vrsux Peon

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    I think it's too short.
     
    vrsux, Dec 25, 2007 IP
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    I am trying this now. I just got 40 clicks and one sale on the next day. The stats on Amazon only turn over once a day after 3AM at least. That's when I stopped checking... 24 hours seems like a really short period of time to track purchase.
     
    AdamCox9, Jan 3, 2009 IP
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    Ysmfree Peon

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    You can see clicks report in Amazon and you will find something more there
     
    Ysmfree, Jan 3, 2009 IP