I'm building a site atm that's going to have it's own stand alone affiliate program built and managed internally not through a network. So basically I need to build the back end myself. I'm just trying to get my head around what types of fraud I need to protect against..
Re: cookie stuffing I figure I need to at least have the target page check for iframes and not plant the cookie if one is found. I've read about using image tags to hit the site. I don't really get how that works if you have a target page that places the cookie with server-side code linking to an image shouldn't trigger the cookie as far as I know? Are there any other techniques that can be guarded against server-side? I realise I can't do much about pop-ups aside from addressing it in TOU or can I?
I've tried googling this but I just get pages and pages of noobs either beating themselves off over all the cash they're going to make or ranting the 'dont be blackhat' mantra. So if anyone can point me to any decent article on the topic I'd be much obliged.
Re: cookie stuffing I figure I need to at least have the target page check for iframes and not plant the cookie if one is found. I've read about using image tags to hit the site. I don't really get how that works if you have a target page that places the cookie with server-side code linking to an image shouldn't trigger the cookie as far as I know? Are there any other techniques that can be guarded against server-side? I realise I can't do much about pop-ups aside from addressing it in TOU or can I?
I've tried googling this but I just get pages and pages of noobs either beating themselves off over all the cash they're going to make or ranting the 'dont be blackhat' mantra. So if anyone can point me to any decent article on the topic I'd be much obliged.
