Dynamic Cookie Stuffing

What is Cookie Stuffing

Affiliate tracking systems are intended to pay commissions to independent web sites ("affiliates") when users click through these sites' links to affiliate merchants. Merchants are not intended to pay commission when users merely visit affiliates' sites. Instead, commission ordinarily only becomes payable in the event that a user 1) visits an affiliate's site, 2) clicks through an affiliate link to a merchant, and 3) makes a purchase from that merchant.

"Cookie-stuffing" is a method that can cause affiliate merchants' tracking systems to conclude that a user has clicked through a tracking link (and to pay commissions accordingly) even if the user has not actually clicked through any such link. If the user subsequently makes a purchase from that merchant - immediately, or within the "return days" period specified by the merchant's affiliate program -- the affiliate then receives a commission on the user's purchase.

How do you do Cookie Stuffing

There are several methods of stuffing cookies. We use image cookie stuffing which is more advanced and secure than other methods. Our Dynamic Cookie Stuffing code generates cookie stuffing image file on the fly dynamically per visit using a random filename, and deletes it afterwards. This makes it hard for affiliate/merchant to discover what you do by checking your source code because they are not going to see anything other than a image tag within your code. By the time they tried to further look into the dynamically generated image file, it may not even exist any more.