Cookie-Stuffing Targeting relaxtheback.com
Cookie-Stuffing Targeting Major Affiliate
Merchants - Ben Edelman
This page reports cookie-stuffing by office-coupons-online.com, targeting relaxtheback.com.
As of November 6, the http://www.office-coupons-online.com/relax_the_back-coupons page was #14 in Google results for "relaxtheback coupon" (without quotes). The specified URL included the following JavaScript code (line breaks added), which opened a LinkShare tracking link in a new window:
<script language="javascript">
<!--
ah=window.open('http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=g/KOq4zlIIk&offerid=43378.10000003&type=3&subid=0','ah');ah.blur();
//-->
</script>
I captured the resulting on-screen display in a video (WindowsMedia format, view in Full Screen mode). I also preserved a full packet log of these findings.
In my testing, this is but one of many affiilate web sites targeting this and other merchants. For example, the #1 Google result for "relaxtheback coupon" is www.consumernow.com/relaxtheback_coupon , which uses cookie stuffing precisely along the lines of that shown as to consumernow's targeting of Toshiba, Netzero, JCWhitney, and DentalPlans.