http://www.thinkaffiliate.co.uk Build Your Online Revenue Stream Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:15:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 http://www.thinkaffiliate.co.uk/cookie-stuffing/26/ http://www.thinkaffiliate.co.uk/cookie-stuffing/26/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:45:28 +0000 admin http://www.thinkaffiliate.co.uk/?p=26 Cookie stuffing is a way of forcing clicks to affiliate programs without the visitor actually having to take any action, such as clicking a banner. This means that if a person who has visited a site which has stuffed cookies then goes on to make a purchase, the owner of the cookie stuffing site gets credited for the transaction if a cookie for that merchant was set. This means that if the visitor actually found the merchants site through the target sites own PPC programme; they are effectively paying twice for the sale.
There are many different ways to implement cookie stuffing, but most networks and programmes strictly prohibit against it in their T&C’s. If a site is found to be doing this, they are very likely to have commissions withheld or rejected. Although you might think you can make some quick money, cookie stuffing is very bad for the affiliate marketing industry. Think how you would feel if you forwarded a potential customer to an advertiser through one of your affiliate links, but somebody else got paid the commission instead as they had forced a cookie onto the referred customers PC.
Cookie stuffing can be done using HTML <img> tags, iframes or more advanced methods. All of these have the same effect – cookies are forced onto the visitor’s machine without their knowledge or consent.

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