Is international cross-domain tracking for self-promoters now given with the Ambassador program?

[Fiorenzo]

For self-promoters with an international follower base, it has always been a tortuous path promoting their own Zazzle products to their international audience due to the lack of cross-domain tracking. Either you lost your 35% self-promotional share (with the result of getting nothing at all, not even the 15% affiliate share) if the customer switched to a local domain through the language links/flags on Zazzle itself, or you had to redirect your customers to their dedicated local domain by providing alternate links to any international Zazzle URL.

Is this issue now solved with the new Ambassador program, so we can promote our own products on the Zazzle.com main page and get our share even if the customer switches to a dedicated local domain, as it should be on a globalized marketplace?

[Sara_H]

@Fiorenzo 

https://www.zazzle.com/my/ambassador/ambassador

Says it's the same "The rules are the same for international referrals. The only difference is that you will have to replace "zazzle.com" with the Zazzle international domain to which you wish to link."

[Fiorenzo]

Know that, this is not the problem. The issue is that if you were in the promoter program and promoted your own products with a "clean" link without an rf code and your customer switched to a local domain on Zazzle (e.g. to zazzle.de from zazzle.com) using the language or flag link, you lost your promoter cookie/share of 35% because this didn't transfer. So you ended up getting no referral at all for your own product promotion. To avoid this, you had to lead your potential German customer as example to his dedicated de domain (basically you had to carry all local domain links in your promos).

[Joel]

There can be no difference. If you send people to .com and zz's geotargetting redirects customers to their closest local site, nothing says there is a cookie set for that matter. It sounds as hit & miss as sending someone with a naked link, and that person orders a product from another creator.

I understand that we have to geotarget people. There is no 100% guarantee it will work. A toss of a coin.

[Fiorenzo]

It's a technical flaw. Or works as intended. Done correctly, if you identify a clean link as a self-promoter link on zazzle.com, you make sure that the self-promotion status set on zazzle.com (if successful) is transferred to any local domain the customer switches to through the internal language/country flags. This is basic coding and the duty of the service provider to make it right, not the promoter's one. This question was already asked at the introduction of the promoter program, and Zazzle's reply was negative.

[Joel]

I absolutely agree. Unfortunately, it's not the world we live in. It's a technical flaw that works as intented, and the loss is on our side.