Cookie stuffing

The cookie -dropping is a scam within the affiliate marketing that tackles the cookie tracking and is not apparent to the ordinary Internet user. In the method, it 's about the targeted placement of relevant for tracking cookies from affiliate networks.

Expiration

Normally, cookies are only stored in the context of affiliate marketing in the browser of an Internet user, if this active clicks on an appropriate advertising media and is thus forwarded via the web server of the affiliate network to the website of the merchant.

When Cookie Dropping these clicks are, however, artificially generated, without the visitor assumes an active plot. When an Internet user of such a foisted clicking receives a certain cookie of an affiliate network and executing a transaction on the website of this Merchants in the course of his Internet activities, the fraudulent affiliate would be identified improperly, as an agent and receive a commission.

Operation Cookie Tracking

Cookie dropping is to be regarded as Internet fraud, since it was generated by simulating a click by a malicious program or from an HTML tag on an infected website. This is a the user's browser cookies or more specific partner programs missed without the user clicked on an ad medium of Affiliates. Should now execute an order, the user, the affiliate who has foisted him the cookie, a commission for the sale, without providing an independent advertising service. The prerequisite is that the HTTP cookies are not disabled in their own Internet browser. The fact that practically all programs work only with cookies, this scam floodgates opened.

Last Cookie Wins

In pay per lead and pay- per-sale shall be regarded by the merchants and the affiliate networks, the principle "last cookie wins", which means that only the affiliate has which rendered the last arbitration before a purchase is paid. Suppose an Internet user is taught regularly by clicking on an advertising agent and gets a cookie stored. So this cookie may be overridden by Affiliates with fraudulent intentions. In case of a later successful transaction on a website a merchant, thereby not the honest affiliate that has the visitor originally taught, but the fraudulent affiliate would receive the commission. Cookie dropping not only damages the Merchants, but also the honest affiliates.