June chat sessions where the we talked about: The Adbrite code, modifying wordpress layouts to cookie stuff, facebook social plugins, facebook coding and more.
Since some Warrior members released time ago ebooks about ppv, I have seen a lot of threads popping around in black hat forums, expressing how much money they are earnings. As always, some people are earning money cookie stuffing with ppv programs and others are not. Earnings are close related to the niche you choose.
If you are going to start using PPV you must take in consideration that PPV is a niche by itself. Why?. Because you are only reaching users of download applications, normally games, that subscribed to PPV technology.
In the chat session we were talking about implementing ppv campaigns and cookie stuffing. How to get the most of your ppv budget?.
In ppv campaigns you have to solve 3 problems. Destination, in small words your landing page. Target pages, the urls that trigger the pay per view pop up. User Agent, is normal for the ppv companies to use their own user agents, setting a red flag on your cookie stuffing activities.
Cloaking is a black hat search engine optimization (SEO) technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different to that presented to the user's browser. This is done by delivering content based on the IP addresses or the User-Agent HTTP header of the user requesting the page. When a user is identified as a search engine spider, a server-side script delivers a different version of the web page, one that contains content not present on the visible page. The purpose of cloaking is to deceive search engines so they display the page when it would not otherwise be displayed.
As of 2006, better methods of accessibility, including progressive enhancement are available, so cloaking is notconsidered necessary by proponents of that method. Cloaking is often used as a spamdexing technique, to try to trick search engines into giving the relevant site a higher ranking; it can also be used to trick search engine users into visiting a site based on the search engine description which site turns out to have substantially different, or even pornographic content.
For this reason, major search engines consider cloaking for deception to be a violation of their guidelines, and therefore, they delist sites when deceptive cloaking is reported.
Cloaking is a form of the doorway page technique.
A similar technique is also used on the Open Directory Project web directory. It differs in several ways from search engine cloaking:
It is intended to fool human editors, rather than computer search engine spiders.
The decision to cloak or not is often based upon the HTTP referrer, the user agent or the visitor's IP; but more advanced techniques can be also based upon the client's behaviour analysis after a few page requests: the raw quantity, the sorting of, and latency between subsequent HTTP requests sent to a website's pages, plus the presence of a check for robots.txt file, are some of the parameters in which search engines spiders differ heavily from a natural user behaviour. The referrer tells the URL of the page on which a user clicked a link to get to the page.
Some cloakers will give the fake page to anyone who comes from a web directory website, since directory editors will usually examine sites by clicking on links that appear on a directory web page. Other cloakers give the fake page to everyone except those coming from a major search engine; this makes it harder to detect cloaking, while not costing them many visitors, since most people find websites by using a search engine.
Mixing TweetAttacks and Ubot Studio to implement the two step cookie stuffing method. You also can download the Ubot bot source and compile version plus the a text file with the bot results..
In the last 2 post, I mentioned the importance of knowing the referrer in your cookie stuffing projects. Here is a basic Wordpress plug in I wrote yesterday you can use to cookie stuff social media sites.
This plugin is in raw code.
Is a basic example on how to play the game in Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Before you start using it, be careful and do not forget to set ads in your blog sidebar with the same affiliate link you are using to cookie stuff.
Most of the black haters are force, when talking about cookie stuffing to ask for scripts. If the script is big, hides & spoof the referrer, control network's ips, user agent, browser type, and speak old latin the better.
Cookie stuffing is deploying a cookie in your visitor browser, nothing more. Scripts were build for security and ease of use, when forums / search engines were the only alternative. The weak points in cookie stuffing are traffic and cashing the money or avoiding the banner.
Are you still stuffing forums?. Are you spoofing, blanking, meta refreshing your referrer?. Are you going to cookie stuff pay per view (ppv) traffic? In what year are you? 2009?.
Well now we are in June 2010 and things have changed in favor of cookie stuffers. You will hear that cookie stuffing is the first step of the black hat stairs, that everyone starts cookie stuffing and then grows to more sophisticate methods.
Well, it all depends on how much money are you making.
Sometimes when you discover new niches with good merchants to cookie stuff you will need to create the landing pages and second layer of sites fast.
You can use word press blogs, or auto blogs to build the sites. Even so, in some niches you will want to jump in and start cookie stuffing right now. Furthermore, creating many sites with their own domain would give you an advantage edge for you to dominate the niche.
You will hear a lot of recommendations on which CTR to use on every affiliate network. People said no more than 12%, 15%, or the most greedy use 20% and get ban in a week.
There are different factors you must consider when you start cookie stuffing a network. Take my advice on this one, general CTR don't work. You must find your own CTR, and every cookie stuffing campaign has its related ratio.
Top notch merchants often had an above average ratio, maybe 7 % up to, well who knows. Second running merchants have smaller ratios, or perhaps not.
Chat log on how to use Tweet Attacks, Facewizard and Tube Detonator to join conversations, attract fans, clone videos on You Tube to drive traffic to your cookies stuffing landing pages
For this reason, major search engines consider cloaking for deception to be a violation of their guidelines, and therefore, they delist sites when deceptive cloaking is reported.