Charles G. Mullen

I know I just had a post regarding eBay filing a lawsuit against cookie stuffers. This lawsuit is specifically from EPN (eBay Partner Network) and have not seen any other legal issues with any other affiliate networks other than a simple boot and ban — cya! Well I’m here to outline basic methods of cookie stuffing which will make you not a good amount of money, but a GREAT amount. We’re talking $x,xxx per month with minimal amounts of actual work (depending on method and application).

Image Stuffing

This is probably where everyone starts off, the infamous image stuff. Can be implemented on forums, your own website, anywhere that allows HTML or IMG code.

Stuff Code

<img src="http://www.affiliate-link-here.com"> (Own webpage)
[IMG]http://www.affiliate-link-here.com[/IMG] (Forum posts)

Moreover

That simple code will allow for a user to get their cookie stuffed with that given affiliate URL. If an unsuspecting reader visits your website and navigates to your article with your own webpage stuff code, he/she will get their cookie stuffed for that given affiliate URL. You can stuff an unlimited amount of cookies. However, there are severe flaws as the link will be visible and allows for unsuspecting users to see your Blackhat techniques. If a user is tech savy enough, you will get caught…but there are ways around that.

Improved Stuffing Codes

<img src="http://www.affiliate-link-here.com" height=1 width=1>

This is better but will still show a red X in Internet Explorer 7 or earlier. Firefox doesn’t show an image altogether and is stuffed successfully. Here’s an even better version of the code:

<img src="http://www.affiliate-link-here.com" height=1 width=1 alt=" ">

What this allows is to no longer show a red X but the alternative text which there is none but a space. Therefore a space shows instead of the broken image.

That’s all there really is to the image stuff. When combined with other more conspicuous cookie stuffing methods, cookie stuffing becomes nothing short of revolutionary.

Charles

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