EPS Cookie Script (Just Curious)

I've seen some posts here about this and I was just curious to find out how many of you out there would seriously consider a cookie script that would place the ebay cookie as soon as a user visits the site, before clicking on an auction item?

Would you take the risk of losing your affiliate account? If yes, how much would you pay for such a script?

 

You WILL get banned by doing that. It's not hard to detect that kind of stuff. Trust me

 

Last I checked, iframes are very easy to create.

This will also get your account banned.

 

Is it that simple as using an iframe to load an ebay page?

 

yes you can cookie stuff by using an iframe to load an ebay page....

but you will get banned as it is pretty easy to detect (your ctr will go through the roof)

 

If you get the script, or frames and use them, you can kiss your account good-bye.

 

What is EPS? Is this somehow related to EPN? Have I missed a stroke here? I do agree that cookie stuffing is a sure fire way to get banned with EPN.

 

Oops, should've been EPN. How is CTR calculated?

 

I believe ctr is calculated by the ratio - impressions/clicks.

 

thats correct 1 impression and 1 click = 100% CTR (click through rate) which is would you would get with cookie stuffing, one reason why its so easy to detect because no one has a CTR of 100%

 

In all respect, I don't think that's accurate. I have sites that carry no eBay creatives and have no tracking pixel images, etc. They get zero impressions, but plenty of clicks. Also, with rss, you get these rogue bots that won't honor robots.txt and run up thousands of clicks because eBay's tracking records them. So, I wonder to what extent cookie stuffing would be distinguishable.

 

it is accurate providing of course that the appropriate tracking mechanisms are in place, but you do raise an interesting point, I have no idea however when it come to i/frames etc. and I have no desire to find out and risk my epn account

 

I'm not about to find out either.

 

If you CTR is to high just make another iframe and put 50 tracking pixels, lol.
But i think the risk of getting banned comes from someone reporting your page, its pretty easy for someone to see that you iframed a redirect to ebay.

 

Don't get me wrong fellas, I have no intentions of finding out myself either, at the expense of getting banned. But as some of you pointed out, it doesn't seem too difficult to add, especially since impressions are not tracked.

 

Cookie stuffing is EXTREMELY easy to catch. Conversion rate is the biggest giveaway. With thousands and thousands of publishers in a network, it's very easy to catch anybody that is cookie stuffing by analyzing the data & finding publishers who have numbers outside of the normal range.

It's not even worth your time to try.

 

Forget iframes, that's for rookies.

Image stuffing with php scripts for referer spoofing and crap traffic and you got yourself a nice income

 

EPN has been banning ppl right and left for stuffing

 

*yawn* Seen that before, it's easy to catch. Again, conversion rate is the biggest giveaway. Remember - eBay has a HUGE amount of data to run your numbers against, and if you're an outlier, you'll get banned for cookie stuffing or whatever you're doing. It's so easy to catch, I don't know why people even try anymore.