First of all, if people stuff eBay, they are going nowhere with cookie stuffing. eBay and Amazon are BS. You have to go for in-house aff programs or less known networks. Oh and its not easy to catch.. I've been doing it for an affiliate program for around a month and have been paid around $6k in total (they issue weekly payments). I now average $300-400 daily with no effort whatsoever, hundreds of people are stuffed daily and they purchase products, I get commissions and don't move a damn finger Good day I won't get into details because this is highly blackhat but I'm just sharing my personal experience on the subject. You have to think outside the bun and be smart about it. You will make money. I know I am.
It is extremely easy to catch if you're looking for cookie stuffers. The conversion rate, among other factors, makes it obvious to me within about 2 seconds of running a report for any programs that I help manage.
Nope. As long as you're smart enough to know how to cover your tracks, it is not easy to catch. The problem is, most "stuffers" have no idea. I wouldn't be making that kind of money if I didn't know how to hide the stuffing. In any case, this is a white hat forum, I won't be discussing any black hat techniques. Good day!
True that RealFlyboy, iframes are old school. There are much more BH scripts that are highly effective. As far as CTR, buy cheap traffic/different IP's.
Cookie stuffing is a bad idea. You are up against the whole affiliate world. When you get caught, you lose all the money in your account.
No, that doesn't work. The giveaway to cookie stuffing is that the Conversion Rate (sales/clicks) is extremely low. There's absolutely no way to set a cookie without sending a click, so it's very obvious when somebody is cookie stuffing.
Wrong again, been stuffing a certain large affiliate for months now with a certain program and I'm not the only one doing this successfully.
Some affiliate programs are so large that nobody watches or cares - either that, or the affiliate managers don't care. Try that in any program that I work with (I'm not naming them, sorry) and you'll be kicked out of CJ so fast that you'd wish you never tried.. In fact, I ruined about a dozen publishers' holidays back in December by catching their fraud ring & have gotten a number of publishers kicked out of CJ in the last few weeks. You can't hide forever That said, are you actually making any money from stuffing? From what I've seen, most people who stuff don't make much at all... violating search policies is much more lucrative (that is, again, not if you try this in any program that I work with).
with the CTR, just write a little script that only sets cookies on a certain percentage of users machines...ie 70%... this will lower your ctr but still give you mulla
RealFlyBoy, if you did infact make $6k, do you mind telling me why you are charging back a $10 payment for an ebook you bought from me, which has been well reviewed by the elite of this forum?
There is a group of us that stuff large and small affiliates and yes, occassionally, it's rare, we do get caught, no big deal. We just open another account. Why would I want to do that? Oh, and CJ sucks, don't need them... Wow, I'm impressed? I do extremely well with cookie stuffing, thank you. Most that I know that cookie stuff also do very well. Look man, until you learn to code your own script and cover your tracks, you'll get caught stuffing. It's cool that you've found a way to cash in online but don't go bashing cookie stuffing because you don't know how to do it properly. Like I said earlier, some of us are making a killing doing it.
its actually pretty easy to get by without being caught. With a little programming, its easy, but wheres the fun in that ?
Isn't cookie stuffing good for catching the missed payments when a visitor is encouraged to buy from your site but for some reason doesn;t like the idea of you getting paid and so goes direct to the purchase site. Either by typing in the URL or doing a google search of the seller? In that case, stuffing a cookie is just protecting the commission payment you deserve, isn't it? Used like this it is similar to cloaking your link.
This happens a lot with review sites in particular, a reviewer will have the affiliate link at the bottom of their review. A person will go to the products page, then they will open a new tab and search google for "{product name} review", they will reach the reviewers page and be tempted into buying. Rather than clicking through the reviewers link they will just switch back to their tab.