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What is "Cookie Stuffing"
Cookie stuffing
As a normal affiliate you would signup to an affiliate program such as with ebay and then promote the link they give you on your own website. When someone clicks on the link and goes through to ebay- a cookie is put onto their system to track them and if they purchase something you earn a little bit of money from the commision.
However when you’re cooking stuffing you don’t actually send visitors to ebay, you simply force the cookie onto their system in the background without them ever knowing. This means you don’t have to drive traffic to them or give them any kind of promotion at all. And because ebay is so big, the chances are a lot of your visitors are going to buy something from them at some point anyway.
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And now for all you broke ass wanna be cookie stuffers here are some FREE examples.
The following examples are going
to be based on the victim merchant being ebay. This is just a random
choice, Any affiliate can be used.
All the following examples would have to be done Manually unless you use our cookie stuffing script.
Cookie Stuffing Basics
Modern day cookie stuffing is nothing more then "forcing" a cookie on a visitor, usually
unknown, whether or not they approve.
Note: You force a cookie to be stuffed; you do not force them to do anything they would
not do on their own anyway. Rather than get into the morality of cookie stuffing, because
we all know where we stand, we'll just skip to the point where we can maximize our
money making efforts with cookie stuffing.
The first rule of cookie stuffing is "We don't talk about cookie stuffing."
Ok I just had to say that and get that out of the way before someone else did. That’s not
to say that it's not true. This is one of those activities that are best left unsaid.
This may be surprising for some to know, but knowing who your ideal customer is, will
be first and foremost for converting sales in to dollars. This can be a very lengthy subject
so I'll apply this very important conversation to how we are using it with cookie stuffing,
this will simplify and speed up the information process.
“If everybody is your customer then nobody is.” Think about that for a minute...
Even huge companies know exactly who their clients are and much more information
then you would probably like them to know. When it comes time to sell “Their Ideal
Client” they know exactly what to say and how to say it to maximize their sales from a
specific type of individual. We'll talk about people patterns some other time.
How about 'automobiles' you say, everyone needs one and everyone is a potential client.
You'd be wrong. Even car companies understand this very well and know it means life or
death to them in a marketing sense. Some companies offer extended warranties knowing
their ideal client is looking for dependability and cost of ownership. Others offer luxury
for that certain person that wants to take home on the road or just look good so they can
brag. How about mini vans? Do you know who their Ideal Client is? Everyone? I think
not. Heck even auto parts are marketed to 'niche' clients. Some for sports or sedan
vehicles. Every aspect of their business is marketed to a unique type of individual that
responds to a series of thoughts that is designed specifically for their "emotional trigger."
Starting to understand? In any endeavor you undertake on-line you must know who your
idea client is or you can't talk 'specifically to them' to get their interest and make a sale. In
fact every big marketing player knows this. Eben Pagan, John Assaraf, John Reese, Frank
Kerns will all tell you the same thing I will, “If you don't know your ideal customer then
you are not ready to market.”
A short story about a guy named Murry Smith. Some years ago Indian Motorcycles was
in bankruptcy for quite some time, it was actually running in reorganization mode for
years before asking Murry to help them get it working again. Long story short, Murry
found that Indians (the company) lack of understanding of this principal of knowing their
ideal client was at the root of the problem. After some questioning, Murry was able to
identify who their ideal client was and “address a special message just to them.”
This leads to developing their “USP” or unique sales proposition for their 'ideal client',
which reads “When price matters less then quality”. Indians ideal customer was different
then Harley customers and they knew they would have to create a difference between
Harley and themselves. So again they found their ideal customer and addressed them as
buyers that wanted to feel “Elite” or in some way a part of a special and “exclusive”
group and brought Indian back from the dead and re-grew $200 million a year company.
That’s the power of knowing your ideal client.
So why the marketing lesson and how does that apply to Cookie Stuffing?
Getting there...
For a while when I first started stuffing I was using the “shotgun” approach, I would load
up my iframe with all sorts of Affiliate programs and hope that one would stick. Know
what? For over 3 months I didn't make a dime. Oh I was getting good traffic and a ton of
clicks but no sales?
As it turned out none of the people visiting my site used any of the affiliate programs I
was stuffing on them. So of course I didn't make a dime, I was bucking one of the most
important rules of marketing and I had no idea of who my traffic really was or what they
were looking for.
The moral of this story is somewhat self evident but let it be very clear, if you are trying
to stuff cookies for pantyhose to visitors from Digg or Reddit – I promise you, you'll get
no sales in this lifetime. Digg and Reddit both are in the HIGH 90 percentile for men as
their main Digg user.
Now on the other hand you can imagine that Ebay would work very well indeed for all
male clientele.
Let’s see... What else interests men... hmm, I think you all get the point. Make sure you
are stuffing cookies to visitors that actually might go to one of merchant’s sites you are
promoting and you might actually make substantial money.
Another example in reverse this time would be: Stuffing a cookie selling 'Viagra' at a site
that caters to men's health. This is a very good idea and would obviously do very well. I
would really like to hear from other customers as to what their site or sites are about and
what affiliate programs they are using successfully.
Many people like myself will buy highly targeted traffic and send it to an affiliate page
that is stuffing cookies. Yes there is HUGE cash potential when you do this correctly.
I know of one customer that is doing just that and making a literal killing with sales ratios
as high as 1000% - yes that is One Thousand Percent.
In most cases the traffic is coming from different places so this also is a positive. Pricing
ranges from .005 to .05 per so it's not all that costly to make a few bucks.
What type of cash flow we talking about? Of course the answer depends on how much
traffic you buy and what the affiliate payout is. Some people that are using this with Ebay
are making filthy money other programs do very well also. So if you go back to the
basics and re-read what I have written, put it together with what you have learned here
and you'll have a winning campaign.
The most basic method ever..
The most basic way of stuffing a cookie would to use a html img tag which references the affiliate page which drops the cookie. The visitors web browser will goto this page, even though its not an image and will accept the cookies returned.
Iframe cookie stuffing
Method 1:This is one of the simplest methods out there. Most people who cookie stuff have started out using this method. Basically you put a 1 pixel iframe on your website and everytime someone visits your site, the affiliate page is loaded within the iframe and the cookies are dropped onto the visitors system. Once the cookie is on the system any purchase the visitor makes you get the commision.
Pros: The biggest pro point of this is that its extremely easy and just about anyone can do it without even having to think about it. To improve your chances of not getting discovered running the hidden iframe you should ensure that there is actually a [ebay] banner or texual link on the same page as the iframe so that at first look the advertiser will think you are sending them genuine traffic.
Cons: This is an easier method to pick up on. The merchant or affiliate company simply needs to view the html source code of your site and see the hidden iframe.
Method 2:
You again go with the same idea of a 1 pixel iframe but instead of having the iframe in your normal page you include an external javascript file which obfuscates the iframe html code. You can find thousands of free online services which will obfuscate your code by searching for ‘html encryption’. For example you could create stats.js which holds the obfuscated iframe and then include it within your normal page.
Pros: Even if the merchant checks your html code, they’re just going to see normal html and are unlikely to think anything of the javascript file. Even if they do then they won’t understand the contents of the javascript file because it’s been obfuscated.
Cons: Some advanced merchants might go to the extreme of checking all your javascript files and then de-obfuscating your code.
Method 3:
You may be thinking that the affiliate is going to check your external javascript files and then de-obfuscate the html. Okay well how about another layer or protection! We will use htaccess to tell the server to treat our JS file as a php file and then check the referer. If there is no referring page then we know someone has gone direct to the javascript file and we will output some bullshit JS else we output the real stuff.
Pros: Even if the merchant checks your html code, they’re just going to see normal html and are unlikely to think anything of the javascript file. Even if they do then they won’t understand the contents of the javascript file because it’s been obfuscated.
Cons: Again if you get a merchant on interweb steroids then they may send a fake referer to the javascript file to see if you’re cloaking the content based on referer. Very unlikely but possible. Another problem is that if they sniffed the raw packets when viewing your main site then they’d see the code come in. This is even more unlikely and they’d still have to them de-obfuscate your code.
These methods can be used very simply and setup extremely quickly. They’re the starting step for most cookie stuffers and give you a good introduction into how it works.
Image cookie stuffing
Method 1:This method is a little more advanced and secure than the iframe methods. This time you include a standard image on your page but set the source of the image file as being the affiliate link. The browser will follow this and although it won’t be able to load it as an image (since its actually a webpage), it will still read and act on the headers returned, and as we know.. cookies are sent via headers. We set the alt of the image as a space so that when it doesn’t load it simply produces a blank space rather than a broken image picture.
Pros: This is better than iframe methods because instead of many urls passing in the visitors browser for the affiliate page as each component within the iframe loads, there will only be one url and it will pass very quickly.
Cons: Just like the iframe 1 method, the affiliate/merchant could view source and see something sus. is going on pretty easily.
Method 2:
This time to decrease the chances of getting caught we actually include what appears to be a local jpg file but infact it’s a php file which uses a redirection header to send the browser onto the affiliate page. Just like iframe method 3 we check referer so that if someone goes direct to the page they wont see the redirect.
Pros: Even if the affiliate/merchant checks your source code then they’re almost certainly not going to think anything of just another image tag within your code.
Cons: The visitor/merchant might spot their domain at the bottom of the browser as it passes by once quickly.
A good thing about this method is that you can signup to forums and post the image link in your signature. For example you signup to a poker affiliate who pays $100 for every new customer you get to join them. Then you go signup to a huge poker forum, you stick the image in your signature and start posting on the forum. Before you know it you have dropped your cookies on everyone on that forum and the chances are quite high they’re going to go signup for a poker room anyway.