Comments on: Dropping affiliate cookies

By: Cashcorp

Cashcorp — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:25:41 +0000

The networks do the SAME thing to you man.
Its called shaving,
they all do it. Believe me-I know-I use custom landing pages for all my products, and I can track when someone clicks the buy button-it goes through a redirect page first just for that purpose.

I use to catch something like 100 sales a week being “shaved”

By: Jordan Stevens

Jordan Stevens — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:24:08 +0000

amen guys! If you have a problem with stuffing-your retarded. You do realize that YOUR affiliate networks, the one you so badly want to protect from this tactic, are shaving your earnings each and every day.

Right?

Cj does it, amazon does it,clickbank does it, hell im a merchant on paydotcom-and THEY do it FOR me-I almost wish they wouldnt as it pisses off some of my goldstar affiliates. But hey, thats the game.

By: TheBlackhatCoach

TheBlackhatCoach — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:38:31 +0000

Seems that I am a bit late to this cookie party.

I don’t stuff cookies, (at this time, lol), for the same reasons that you mentioned; it just seems a bit too underhanded. Sorta like picking someone’s pocket.

To those that do, good luck.

that’s it,
Bompa

By: muglafug

muglafug — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:42:31 +0000

cookie stuffing is bad… what’s worse is the way the advertisers do everything in there power to
give you as little as possible, push you out of the picture as fast as possible…
IM is a rude game, what works today will NOT work tomorrow
those that are raking in the dough just might have to return to the factory soon….

so in my opinion in the IM world pillage and take all you can cause tomorrow you just might have to wakeup a 5:am to go and punch in….

By: SEO Ranter

SEO Ranter — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:27:51 +0000

It’s well harsh, but not illegal. Well, not in a criminal court - civil’s a different matter. Personally I hate the idea, but I’ve not clue what can be done to clean things up.

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:44:29 +0000

I don’t care, from a personal perspective if people do this, but it’s probably bad for the industry, in general and could probably lead to tighter regulations on affiliate marketing, either through legislation (and politicians are always looking for a way to write a new law) or within the market itself . . .

By: Dink

Dink — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:10:53 +0000

lmao. Not the first time for that I’d wager.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:41:04 +0000

Thanks Dink Very few people seem to agree with you, most seem to want my head on a plate lol!

By: Dink

Dink — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:18:12 +0000

Heya mate. I salute you for taking a stance on this subject.

Too many times, people take up a system or project without thinking through the effect it will have on others.

Cheers.

By: Joff

Joff — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:24:49 +0000

I’m not sure what everyone’s whinging about. Surely we can all agree cookie stuffing is naughty? So those that do it, know they are doing wrong, but the reward at the moment is far greater than the risk.

Those that are getting their cookies overwritten can feel upset but hey, shit happens and they should write to the affiliate companies to complain. Or failing that, to their MP or whoever will listen.

Oh and Julie, don’t worry I’m not stalking you - Esrun’s just next on my RSS feeds lol