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		ChuckMcM on May 8, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bit.ly and Viglink Adding Affiliate Cookies on Sho... Its the easiest way to monetize them. I'm really surprised it took this long. One of the interesting things to look at is CTR and affiliate payout, you may find that only 30 - 40% of the affiliate links "stick" only because so many people between where the link is and the vendor end up trying to stomp on the affiliate tie in. It is an affiliate eat affiliate world out there.

joshu on May 11, 2015 [–]

Sometimes I wonder if you are just a ramblebot that looks for keywords and finds a semi-relevant story.

notfoss on May 11, 2015 | [–]

Seeing that he is a member of the watson group at IBM, it just might be true ;)

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