How A Malaysia Super Affiliate Do Black Hat Marketing | Image Stuff Cookie Stuffing
Believe it or not, a Malaysia Super Affiliate whom I respected most, do unethical Black Hat Marketing via Image Stuff Cookie Stuffing!
He is a full time Internet Marketer and claimed has bought a CLK Mercedes and Million Dollar Villa, from his Internet income alone.
This year he also claimed have bought a Porsche Cayenne S car!
Truly amazing achievement!
This all started when I got a e-mail from Mr.X title “The top 10 hot trends in August (61-page report free)”.
The content of e-mail read as follow:
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Hi NAME,
Right now in my hand in my computer, I mean), I have the detailed report of the top 10 hottest trend for the last week of August 2010.
Imagine if you know what are the trends and the keywords that are being searched in Google, Twitter and other major authority websites.
Whether you want to put up a blog to make Adsense commission, develop an info-product to sell, simply promote affiliate programs for quick cash and so on, KNOWING what niche market is your key to ensure your success.
That’s exactly what my new product, the “Weekly Top 10 Trend Report” does for you.
If you were to compile the kind of research data in this report, it’ll take you many hours… or even days!
BUT I’m going to give you this edition for *FREE*.
Download the Top Ten Trend Report for the last week of August 2010 (the latest one) from the link below:
–> http:// www. mydomain.com/top-ten-trend.zip <–
(This is a direct download link, no email subscription required. It’s a gift.)
There’s no catch or whatsoever. I’m doing this because it’s a gift to you for being my loyal subscriber.
I appreciate you.
*COMING SOON ON XXXXXX*
I’ll be releasing my #1 best-selling course, XXXXX on the XXXXX.
This course has helped people from all around the world to start their internet businesses and quitted their job.
I think you’ll love this. Stay tune for its release soon.
Thanks again,
Mr.X
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Wow!
You are given a free report without any email subscription!
But he Never tell you he will gave you a FREE Image Stuff Cookie Stuffing as well!
Blackhat marketing is an unethical form of marketing in which the ‘blackhatter’ will manipulate either affiliate networks, and/or search engines.
In this case, he manipulate the ClickBank affiliate network.
A blackhatter is someone who knows the ins and outs, or just the common basics of an affiliate or an entity and will manipulate it in order to make the most income from it.
What Is Cookie stuffing?
When you are promoting an affiliate program, you are given an affiliate link.
If the user clicks on this affiliate link, they are given a cookie as a tracking method to credit you with the transaction or sale.
This cookie is a tracking method used to track affiliates and their traffic sources.
Cookie stuffing is the process where a cookie is ‘stuffed’ onto a user’s computer without the user knowing!
Although cookie stuffing can be very profitable and gave instant income, it can also be very dangerous.
You can risk getting your account banned when you cookie stuff.
When you click on the link http:// www. mydomain.com/top-ten-trend.zip , you will get the report as promise.
This the html source code of http:// www. mydomain.com/top-ten-trend.zip:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN”>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ />
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”3;url=http:// www. mydomain.com/top-ten-trend.zip“>
<title>Free Top 10 Trend Report</title>
<meta name=”keywords” content=””>
<meta name=”description” content=””>
<style>
body{background:#fff; font:11px Arial;}
</style>
</head>
<body style=”overflow:hidden; margin:0px;”>
<img src=”http:// www. mydomain.com/ image_23_1.gif” width=”1″ height=”1″ alt=””> </body>
</html>
<script language=”javascript”>
function waitloc(loc)
{
window.location=loc;
}
//var t = “waitloc(‘”+”http:// www. mydomain.com/top-ten-trend.zip“+”‘);”;
//setTimeout(t,15000);
</script>
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The http:// www. mydomain.com/ image_23_1.gif is NOT a actual gif image file but will redirects to his hoplink which drops the cookie, before the header meta refresh redirects the page to the real file download url.
This is the screen shot for the html source code of http:// www. mydomain.com/ image_23_1.gif
In this case, he is cookies stuff a ClickBank’s product called CPA Instruments.
His name is listed in the Top 20 Super affiliate who have make the Most Sales in the World for CPA Instruments.
This product has achieve above 200 in gravity and has make over $300k in sales!
This what the ClickBank’s official View on Cookie Stuffing:
Hello,
Thank you for your email.
ClickBank does not condone “cookie stuffing” of any kind.
What is commonly referred to as “cookie stuffing” simply means manipulating the customer purchasing path to intentionally discredit the last true referring affiliate.
ClickBank does not condone cookie stuffing by any client, affiliate or vendor.
Any intentional manipulation of the cookie or the customer’s purchasing path is not permitted.
Whenever any client is suspected of manipulating customer purchasing paths or cookies to discredit the proper affiliate, they are either immediately contacted for investigation or their account may simply be terminated without warning with all funds held.
Thank you,
Tiffany
Senior Client Support , ClickBank
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It was unethical to do any Black Hat Marketing!
This will set a very bad example for other who are new and wish to make money online.
I hope Super Affiliate can be more professional and do only ethical marketing, even they need to push the Sales!
** By the time, you read this the actual link may have the cookie stuff removed!
Very interesting information? How does one detect such cookie stuffing? And how does one stop it?
hi Alan 😉 I know who’s that 🙂
Hi alan.
Just need certain clarification.
By “that” BH technique, is it mean that if anybody else referred person to that particular product, the commission will go to to him.
Aleax & kodinz,
It’s not easy to explain over here…as this is “advance” marketing technique
The more I explain, the more question you may ask…
So let it be & just beware of these thing happen