If you re serious about Cookie Stuffing, take a look at Cookie Stuffing Script.

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Cookie Stuffing What is Cookie Stuffing? Cookie Stuffing is a very mild form of black hat marketing, because in all honesty, this one doesn t break any laws.

1 Cookie Stuffing What is Cookie Stuffing? Cookie Stuffing is a very mild form of black hat marketing, because in all honesty, this one doesn t break any laws. Certainly, it goes against the terms of service of some affiliate programs (but not all), and it could get you banned from certain programs, but you can always get back in. This is a lot like card counting in blackjack. It s not illegal, you re just bending the rules of the game in your favor by knowing what you re doing really well. The philosophy of Cookie Stuffing is simple. Here s how it works: you put cookies on other people s computers when they visit your page, and then you make money when they buy stuff as if you were the affiliate. They don t even need to click through your affiliate links. They just need to get to your page. If you re not stuffing cookies, you re missing out. This is very easy money all you do is building a site, attract traffic using any method you know, and then add a Cookie Stuffing script in. Depending on the way you decide to stuff and attract traffic, you ll either see a trickle of money, or an absolute flood. Test it for yourself, and try it out, but stay conservative with the number of cookies you stuff and try to have your site remain invisible to the sites you re promoting.

2 How to start Cookie Stuffing? There are several methods of stuffing cookies. The solution you use will depend on how much control you have over the site. For example you will use a different method on sites you own yourself against other peoples forums you sign up and post to. Attached you'll find resource files which includes the code for each of these examples. The most basic method ever.. The most basic way of Cookie Stuffing 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 This is one of the oldest and most simplest methods out there. Most people who cookie stuff have started out using this method. Basically you put a 1 pixel iframe on your existing website and every time someone visits your site, the affiliate page is loaded within the iframe and the cookies are dropped onto the visitors system. Resource folder /iframes/1 Description: You literally just take your affiliate link and make a 1 pixel iframe with the source being the affiliate link. 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 banner or textual 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 quite an easy 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.

3 Resource folder /iframes/2 Description: 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. Resource folder /iframes/3 Description: 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 javascript 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 javascript 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 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. Overall pros of the iframe methods: 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. You would work upon these scripts with different ways to protect yourself from being caught. Overall cons of the iframe methods: The biggest con of this is that at the bottom of the visitors browser window they might spot the affiliate URL as the page is loaded in the background. This document is for educational purpose only!

4 Image Cookie Stuffing 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 web page), 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. Resource folder /image/1 Description: You literally just take your affiliate link and make add a new image to your page with the source being the affiliate link. You set the alt text to a space so that no broken image picture is displayed. 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 suspicious is going on pretty easily. Resource folder /image/2 Description: This time to decrease the chances of getting caught we actually include what appears to be a local.jpg file but in fact 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. One huge pro about using the image method is that you can sign up to other peoples forums and then post the image link in your signature. For example you sign up to a poker room who pay $100 for every customer you get to join them. Then you go sign up 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 sign up for a poker room anyway. You can t do this with the iframe method since most forums won t allow you to post html.

5 Avoiding high (100%) CTR One problem with dropping the cookies on every visitor is that it will result in a 100% CTR which can be an obvious flag that something isn t right. To avoid this you can take a couple of steps, depending on how much time you wish to put into it and your coding skills. The simplest way to avoid this problem is to use the rand() function to select a random number between(and including) 1-4 and then only output the code to drop the cookie if the number equals 1. This method won t allow you to set an exact percentage because the number chosen will always be random. Out of 100 visits, it might select the numbers 2,3 and 4, 30 times each while selecting the number 1 only 10 times. <? $random_number = rand(1,4); if($random_number == 1){ echo "cookie stuffing code goes here!"; }?> If you have time then you might want to code something more advanced. For example: Drop cookie only once per IP address Keep a daily count of visitors and then limit how many people you drop the cookie on the next day. For example if you have 1000 unique visitors on Monday, on Tuesday you will drop the cookie on a maximum of 200 people. Log every visitor and only drop a cookie on every tenth visitor Etc.

6 Avoid getting caught A lot of people have said, surely it s easy to get caught forcing cookies on people if you have an iframe where the source is the affiliates page. This is true to some degree. You should take the following things into consideration: The iframe method is the most basic and is intended as proof of concept rather than real world usage If you have been an affiliate for awhile and your CTR isn t ridiculously high then there s no reason the advertiser would ever check your site for Cookie Stuffing So what is a safer method than Iframes for dropping the cookie? A safer method of dropping the cookie would be using a false image which redirects to the affiliates page that has the HTTP cookie header. The browser will try to load the image, be redirected to the affiliate page and although it won t process any html on the final page, it will read and process the HTTP headers including the one which places the cookie. It s crucial that you redirect to the exact page that has the cookie header, so be careful if the affiliate site redirects a lot of times before landing on its final page so that you select the correct one which is dropping the cookie. The simplest way to do this would be using a.htaccess file which says, if there is a reference to tracking_pixel.jpg then redirect it to xyz affiliate page. RewriteEngine On RewriteRule stats.jpg [R,L] You now edit your site template so that every page includes the image: <img src="stats.jpg" /> Now, even if the affiliate decides to come and take a look at your sites source code, they re going to see nothing which catches their eye. If for example you had a website which sold clothes then the chances are you d have a lot of images named blue_shirt.jpg and such like. So in this case you could easily name it red_shirt.jpg and have it mixed in somewhere in your template and they d never know!

7 An even safer image cookie stuff. Whilst it s extremely unlikely, it is possible that someone checking your site for stuffing could try loading tracking_pixel.jpg into their browser and then they d be redirected to the affiliate page and guess something is amiss. To combat this, instead of using.htaccess to redirect to the affiliate page, we will instead tell it to treat a file named tracking_pixel.jpg as a PHP file. <Files stats.jpg> ForceType application/x-httpd-php </Files> Now we put PHP code in tracking_pixel.jpg which checks the referring page. If the referrer is empty then the user has gone direct to our image and we should output a 404 error, if there is a referrer then the image has been included on a page and should be redirected to the affiliate site. <? if(!$_server[ HTTP_REFERER ]){ header("http/ Not Found"); } else { header("location: }?> So now just include the following code on any page that you wish to drop cookies from: <img src="stats.jpg" /> Also note that you re not limited to including the image on your own site! You could also include it on forums and such like basically anywhere that will allow you to place images. So if you signed up to a popular bingo forum you might decide to start becoming a regular poster and dropping cookies for all the well known bingo rooms. Good luck and take care! This document is for educational purpose only!

Modern Cookie Stuffing

Modern Cookie Stuffing A step-by-step guide on modern cookie stuffing techniques that actually work Before you begin to read this, please be aware that this e-book is not for the lazy internet marketer.