Today we are going see a negative form of SEO that is a Black hat SEO practice,Black hat SEO are those who generate and interact in fraudulent activities which in form appear to cheat the normal search engine terms and policies.one such practice is Cookie stuffing.It is a famous black hat techniques to generate fraudulent affiliate sales
Wikepedia explains
“Cookie stuffing or cookie dropping is when a user visits a website, and in turn from that visit receives a third-party cookie from an entirely different website. In this sense, Google AdSense and other internet ad networks cookie stuff visitors who view a web page that is serving their ads. Cookie stuffing can sometimes be a blackhat online marketing technique used to generate fraudulent affiliate sales. It involves placing an affiliate tracking cookie on a website visitor’s computer without their knowledge, which will then generate revenue for the person doing the cookie stuffing. Income is generated when the affected user visits the target affiliate site and either creates an account or makes a purchase, depending on the terms of the affiliate agreement. This not only generates fraudulent affiliate sales, but also has the potential to overwrite legitimate affiliates’ cookies, essentially stealing their legitimately earned commissions.”
How this cookie stuffing Works?
What is being described is the practice of automatically simulating a physical click of an affiliate link. Cookie stuffing is commonly used to describe a simulated click happening on a web site versus a simulated click happening through adware. Occasionally people will use the term in conjunction with adware.
When a simulated click of an affiliate link occurs, the clickstream happens as it normally would if a real person had physically clicked the link. The affiliate link is sent to the respective Network (or Merchant in the case of an in-house program) servers, the click is recorded and tracking cookies are placed on the end user’s computer. Hence the term cookie stuffing since in many cases the most obvious sign that something has happened is the appearance of the tracking cookie(s) on the computer.
Some are iframe cookie stuffing,image cookie stuffing.
So be honest while making money online this technique will yield you income not for permanent
Tags: Cookie dropping, Cookie stuffing
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