Cookie Stuffing / Hacked?

by katy1987

Posted: 11 years ago 1 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hi,
Im having a few problems with sales at the moment, what's happening is I've had over 20,000 direct targeted clicked links straight though to the affiliate platform, the clicks are registering with the merchant and have only had a few sales if your lucky since the start of the year. The website uses a price comparison and the customer is clicking and the click is registering through to the merchant but it seems that its losing something when they are going to the merchants buying process.

So what I did was I cleared out all of my cookies and went straight from google to our website and all the time kept an eye on what cookies were being dropped in, went on the homepage, all the cookies look fine, went on to a page with affiliate links and I didn't click any of the links but this cookie dropped in called stormiq.com which I have never heard of, so I repeated this process 4 times and 3 out of the 4 times stormiq.com dropped in.

Does anyone have think this could be cooking stuffing/hacking and suspicious?

Thanks

#cookie #hacked #stuffing

Dan Thompson 11 years ago

Have you tested it on another machine to see if you get the same results?

If you can't recreate the results on a 2nd machine it sounds like you may have some malware/adware on your computer, in which case give it a scan with these 2 programs:

Malwarebytes : Malwarebytes Anti-Malware removes malware including viruses, spyware, worms and trojans, plus it protects your computer

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If you get the same results on 2 machines then the malware will be on the site itself, in which case Sucuri should be able to pick it up and get rid of it for you:

http://sucuri.net/

Edit: Just another thought, I'm assuming the page with the affiliate links on that is dropping the cookies is still part of your website? If so, what type of links are they? Are you using standard text links or pulling some javascript from the advertisers server? If so, it could be the advertiser themselves that is dropping the cookie in there via their JS code.
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