Planting Affiliate Cookies

[BenShaffer]

Contrary to popular belief, there are many legitimate reasons for planting affiliate cookies. For example, if you want to bypass a squeezepage and send someone directly to a salespage.

The easiest way to do it, is do to is via an iframe with a meta refresh like this:

<iframe src="http://www.affiliatelink.com" width="1" height="1"></iframe>
<META http-equiv="refresh" content="1;URL=http://www.salespage.com/">

(or something similar)

The problem with this though is:
1. If there is music or video or any sound on the affiliatelink.com then it will play thus confusing potential customers

2. If affiliatelink.com is very large, it can take a long time to load and in Firefox will delay the person from being directed until it is completely loaded.

so...my question:

What alternative ways are there to plant a link and redirect without encountering these two problems (which work)?

Ben Shaffer

[digitalproductreporter]

sure there might be some "legitimate" reasons, but for most affiliate companies it breaks their terms of service and if they catch you then you get the boot

[BenShaffer]

Never heard of anyone being chucked out unless they really were stuffing which is quite different.

Anyhow, don't really want to debate the morals or risks. More interested if anyone could enlighten me technically?

Ben Shaffer

[jt321]

Is it a Clickbank link?

[Amfire]

Originally Posted by digitalproductreporter

sure there might be some "legitimate" reasons, but for most affiliate companies it breaks their terms of service and if they catch you then you get the boot

Only if they are able to catch you

[BenShaffer]

Not necessary CB. Talking on a general level here.

Ben Shaffer

[digitalproductreporter]

Originally Posted by Amfire

Only if they are able to catch you

lol. almost all networks have "quality bots" that crawl affiliate sites looking for this nonsense.

people get booted and then come crying here "why did I get booted?"

@ben

Contrary to popular belief, there are many legitimate reasons for planting affiliate cookies. For example, if you want to bypass a squeezepage and send someone directly to a salespage.

a simple redirect will do that for you and not break any tos

but if you really have a good reason to drop a cookie check out this link it might be helpful to you, it uses htaccess

How To Stuff Clickbank Affiliate Cookies Using .htaccess | THE Work At Home Guide