Hijacking Affiliates - Cookie Stuffing Explained

[Hililuud]

Originally Posted by matthewd

If they read my page and then purchase... whether they clicked on my button or not I deserve the sale.

Now what if Clickbank is screwing up as normal and those extra sales actually were click-throughs that their tracking system missed?

This very well could be the case b/c I started this back in May and for a couple of months it only brought me in maybe 1 extra sale a few days, but for the past couple of months it has been bringing in more sales than my button... I bet if I dug deep enough it would correlate exactly with when all of this tracking stuff got screwy.

No, that is like someone who is looking for how to buy a laptop and he searches a bunch of sites for buying the laptop including yours and he purchases at the regular site, you didn't make the sale, and if you think you made the sale then why shouldn't every page that he visited before he bought the laptop get a piece of the profit.

This just sounds like a really good way for companies to stop using affiliates, people like you are going to ruin it for the rest of us.

[Robert Puddy]

Originally Posted by rondo

You don't know that yours is the last one they viewed.
It's only the last one cookied because you "stuffed" it.


Andrew

Doesnt matter if the cookie was stuffed on the previous page, if they go to another site and click on the link there the new cookie will over ride the stuffed one.

Stuffed cookies work the same as any other if the buyer clicks on someones link after they have visited the site that has cookie stuffing pixels on it the last affiliate will get the sale

Robert

[hernan10]

Steve...

suppose you are a salesman selling a TV.. you are the one who introduces the customer to the product.. you showed him what is there to like and if his money is worth it.. but for some reason (any reason) he din't buy it then... he comes in the next day and doesn't find you there... and says " hey i need that sony tv" .. some other guy pops in.. and closes the deal and robs your comission.....

does that sound fair to you?

[Hililuud]

Originally Posted by hernan10

Steve...

suppose you are a salesman selling a TV.. you are the one who introduces the customer to the product.. you showed him what is there to like and if his money is worth it.. but for some reason (any reason) he din't buy it then... he comes in the next day and doesn't find you there... and says " hey i need that sony tv" .. some other guy pops in.. and closes the deal and robs your comission.....

does that sound fair to you?

You are trying to justify a all the time solution for a sometime situation.

[danemorgan]

Originally Posted by Dmitry

Totally agree with you man. We should create a secret "blackhat for fun... and profit" society or something

Login or something...

[mrdomains]

Originally Posted by Darth Executor

If you want to stop being a thief and still protect yourself from clickbank's incompetence, stuff the cookie after they click on your link.

This is an interesting. Could a simple redirectpage between buy button and vendor page do the stuffing?

[gundammeister]

Wow this is really interesting stuff.

[Darth Executor]

Originally Posted by mrdomains

This is an interesting. Could a simple redirectpage between buy button and vendor page do the stuffing?

Yes. It's what you'd have to do actually. You should be using redirects as your off-site links most of the time anyway for a number of reasons I won't get into now.