Cookie Stuffing: Think Twice Before You Stuff Them

October 17, 2008 by Admin  
Filed under Affiliate Marketing

People always think of getting easy money. Well, cookie stuffing is a simple way for getting easy money from the Internet. Even without others knowing, you can earn money by cookie stuffing; most simple way of warning money from the comforts of a home.

Cookie stuffing

Cookie stuffing is dropping an affiliate cookie into a user’s computer without his knowledge. For example suppose you are affiliated with some company’s website and have an affiliate link in your website or blog and if someone visits this affiliate link, a cookie is stuffed into his computer by which he is tracked. If that person buys something or creates an account according to the terms and conditions, you get paid. Here the thing is that you do not have to click on the links but it is through the other user that you get the money.

There are a lot of methods by which you can drop cookies in other’s computer. You can use Javascript, iFrames, PHP Header redirect, .htaccess and redirect pages, HTML Object and exploiting Browser’s security flaws.

Though Cookie stuffing is an easy way to get money, it is not legal. You are the only person responsible for all the risks that follows Cookie stuffing. As Cookie stuffinginvolves placing cookies into some other person’s computer without his knowledge, you have to take all the responsibilities if caught doing so.

You can be banned if some affiliate programme finds out that you were using cookie stuffing. It is only a “blackhat” online marketing, which is used to generate fraudulent affiliate sales. If the company or the affiliate network allows cookie stuffing, then there is no problem. But most of the companies do not encourage Cookie stuffing.

You get easy money through Cookie stuffing without directly being involved. But better think twice before you do stuff cookies into other’s computers.

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One Response to “Cookie Stuffing: Think Twice Before You Stuff Them”
  1. James says:

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