My impressions and clicks on Pinterest are UP, considerably, over last week.
I had to buy some Stationery for my daughter eventually, so I did it today to test this issue. Here's how that went -
- Pin Stationery to Pinterest
- Delete Zazzle browser cookies, which also logs me out of Zazzle
- Navigate to Pin, click Pin
- Check Zazzle cookies
-- 4 cookies, local storage,
www.zazzle.com-- 11 cookies, zazzle.com
-- NO RF parameter stored in human-readable form
-- NO TC parameter stored in human-readable form
- Customize Stationery, Add to Cart
- Check Zazzle cookies
-- I forgot to count them lol, but I think same as above
-- NO RF parameter stored in human-readable form
-- NO TC parameter stored in human-readable form
- Finish purchase, includes log in
- Check Zazzle cookies
-- 6 cookies, local storage,
www.zazzle.com-- 9 cookies, zazzle.com
-- RF parameter stored in human-readable form
--- Due to another test I did, I believe the RF is added as my identity (i.e. due to logging in) and NOT due to the link I clicked (i.e., not due to ?rf= parameter)
-- NO TC parameter stored in human-readable form
- Check Royalty
-- Credited, working correctly
-- Tracking Code, as expected, working correctly
Meaning the process isn't broken, per se, for a
purchase, but I've never NOT seen my RF and TC parameters stored UPON CLICKING a properly formatted link.
So, if Zazzle could please comment on cookie storage and what's going on there - why are parameters not stored in human-readable form upon clicking a link? Is this affecting Referrals at all? Is that why Linkovers have suddenly plummeted? In the past, it's been said Linkovers were artificially inflated - is this a correction, and they're accurate now?