Is this cookie stuffing? If not, will this work how i intend it to?

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I'm pretty sure cookie stuffing is illegal .. amirite?

So i don't want to do that, but this thought popped into my head and I'm wondering if it would work like how i'm thinking it will.

Let's take an offer like Match.com. The only links they give us are links directly to the sign up page. But lets say I wanted to link a user directly to a profile on match, and he wanted to message that person, but couldn't because it forced him to sign up.

So if that's clear, what i basically want is for a user to sign up after viewing a profile, but i want to get credit for it.

If i direct the user to a landing page "mysite.com" and i just have a huge button that says "View Her Profile" but i also have 1x1 iframe on that landing page with my offer loaded, will that get my tracking id in his cache?

If this sounds shady it's really not. I'm using match as an example, but if this works, then it would give me some more flexibility on how to promote this offer.
 


That's called cookie stuffing buddy.

Have you been cryogenically frozen for the last 10 years or something?

Oh, and...inb4 leadsupplier posts a thread saying Match.com stole his money.
 
ha.

seriously, why don't you ask your AM or somebody from match? I'm sure they'd be willing to accommodate you if their current link offerings aren't suiting your needs.
 
i guess i can, but i tried with a similar offer and had no luck. ALSO, i'd need like 100's of different links.

for the match example, i'd need a link that showed all people that were 40+ in san francisco, 25-35 in NYC, etc...

It would just be a lot of hassle

edit: is it illegal though?

It's not like my main goal is to stuff the users cookie's, its more to make the process of them signing up for the site more streamlined while at the same time giving me credit for the lead
 
leadsupplier said:
I'm pretty sure cookie stuffing is illegal .. amirite?

So i don't want to do that, but this thought popped into my head and I'm wondering if it would work like how i'm thinking it will.

Let's take an offer like Match.com. The only links they give us are links directly to the sign up page. But lets say I wanted to link a user directly to a profile on match, and he wanted to message that person, but couldn't because it forced him to sign up.

So if that's clear, what i basically want is for a user to sign up after viewing a profile, but i want to get credit for it.

If i direct the user to a landing page "mysite.com" and i just have a huge button that says "View Her Profile" but i also have 1x1 iframe on that landing page with my offer loaded, will that get my tracking id in his cache?

If this sounds shady it's really not. I'm using match as an example, but if this works, then it would give me some more flexibility on how to promote this offer.
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Textbook CSing technique. Not legal -- ask that DP dude, Shawn.
 
leadsupplier said:
i guess i can, but i tried with a similar offer and had no luck. ALSO, i'd need like 100's of different links.

for the match example, i'd need a link that showed all people that were 40+ in san francisco, 25-35 in NYC, etc...

It would just be a lot of hassle

edit: is it illegal though?

It's not like my main goal is to stuff the users cookie's, its more to make the process of them signing up for the site more streamlined while at the same time giving me credit for the lead
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Sometimes you'll be able to get a link where you can pass along a forward-to-URL argument. I would ask match about it.
 
What you are trying to accomplish is ok, just doing what your asking is definitely cookie stuffing and not ok.

Ask your affiliate manager if you can have your own custom tracking URL that goes to a profile page you want. I've worked with a bunch of dating offers in the past where they'll tell me to go on their site, find a profile I want to to use as my landing page, then they'll create a tracking URL for it for me.



GerardWon said:
Hmm, on second thought it might Not be illegal -- but would probably violate many advertisers tos. I think DP's shit was more illicit.
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That whole thing was a clusterfuck of a story.
 
Find profile page you like -> Save Page -> Edit Page so anything they click on goes to the signup page -> Use edited profile page as lander -> Profit???
 
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