Ok, my blackhat hostgator affiliate account has been canceled today, due to cookie stuffing. Lost around $350.

I still have my main account though (the one for whitehat activities), but I do recall using a bit of cookie stuffing there as well when I first started out.

Question is: is hostgator notorious for going through all of the accounts and manually verify everything, or did some lameass report me? I'm afraid it is just a matter of time before they find out about a few blackhat commissions in the main account as well.

Any suggestions?

They will ban u at the time of the payment......

Yeah buddy..... they do some checking thoroughly ...

Ok, that should be good news

Although I know a few people who cookie stuff them all the time and get their payments... and no, they aren't hiding the referrals either...

what method did you use for stuffing?

forums using the img tag controlled by .htaccess

no wonder you got banned. you need some hot sauce to blank that referer URL with the img tag.

Tried to, but whatever seems to work with other BHaters doesn't wanna work with my server... maybe I'm doing it wrong.

Let's not go into CS here, this isn't the section for it. Let's stick to answering his main question: is hostgator notorious for going through all of the accounts and manually verify everything, or did some lameass report me?