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[Margot530]

PLEASE READ ALL THE WAY THROUGH, AS MUCH NEW INFO HAS BEEN ADDED!!!!!!



I've posted bits and pieces of this in a few threads, and it seems to have helped a few people out there who ran across it; so thought I would try to get this out to everyone.

When I first started, I could green very easily, and then all of a sudden I would only green occasionally. I burned up sooo many offers, and had to submit manual credits, and got so frustrated; especially considering I was following the clear cookie/file instructions to the "t."

It occurred to me (while not in the midst of a blond moment ) that I had to have a cookie folder that I wasn't aware of. I performed a search, and sure enough, found a hidden cookie file literally loaded with thousands of cookies that were constantly causing many conflicts.

I jumped the gun and deleted the whole thing, loosing files that I needed and had to do a soft restore to get it all back. I thoroughly searched the file, and found what I needed to keep, ("dat" files) transferred them to another area, in my case I used My Documents. Then deleted the file again. I haven't had one problem since. Learn from my mistake, and check the file to make sure you don't need something important in there, it can be time consuming, but worth the effort. If in doubt, don't delete.

I do periodically check for hidden cookie files just to make sure nothing attached its self to my computer.

The file on my computer stated it was "hidden." What you would be looking for is a file that has a large amount of kb's or even mb's. For those that aren't sure how to perform a search, these are the steps I took, though your computer may differ.

Click on the start menu, click on search, enter the word "cookies" into the blank search field. Make sure you set the options to perform a search of your entire computer. It may take several minutes, so be patient.

Another interesting thing I have discovered, is that those who seem to green better, are those that have there phone number listed with their names as well as addresses. Using a cell can be bad, as they rarely list a name in association with it. I have changed mine to listed and back to unlisted quite quickly through the phone company, and this has now also improved my crediting.

Please, any people out there who know computers better than I, add, correct or simplify all this.

I truly hope this helps some of you out that have stopped getting credits like you used to; I'd love to hear about it if it does

Good Luck,

Margot

[ldybug1752]

I have been having lots of problems getting credit..so I searched my computer and found the hidden cookie files and folders but..I have NO idea which ones I'm supposed to delete! I'm not computer illiterate (so I thought) but when I click on the files they're totally jibberish. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, and of course rewarded with karma Thanks in advance!

[Margot530]

[Margot530]

Hi All !

I worked with a real nice new gal last night, and I ran her and her computer through their paces . Found hidden tool bars/cookie files...we took a good 3 hours or so, but got her squared away.

So another thing to look for when you are not getting your greens to credit...hidden tool bars that you are not using.

Hope I helped some more.....

Margot

[Jenne1975]

Very good to know....i also found my hidden cookie files...deleted them..thanks a bunch

[cubbieco]

I actually use firefox for all of my daily browsing, and I only use Internet Explorer for offers in such. This helps me keep it clean to get the cookies easily.

Another thing to make sure of is privacy settings so your computer accepts all cookies especially "tracking cookies"

[sandra habina]

I am bumping this because I feel that the information that Margot has shared is wonderful for us all. Especially new traders. Thankyou Margot you are awesome

[Margot530]

Wow! Thanks so much you guys...I've learned a lot about how messed up and cluttered your computer can be, and several things that can be stopping you from crediting...if you EVER have a question, PLEASE feel free to ask, you are never a bother, and helping people is something I love to do

Margot

[kidd2108]

...or just use CCleaner to delete everything, including cookies, temp files, etc.

[gmario]

[Margot530]

[skepticalcynic]

Maybe someone can clear this up for me - the first trade I did I ended up having to do a manual credit request and I was told that if you check the TOS on an offer, sometimes that will cause it to not credit. But I haven't seen this info anywhere else. Does anyone know what this is all about?

[Margot530]

I've heard it too, so just as a precaution, I do all my scouting of the offers and TOS prior to completing the offers I've chosen. And always delete cookie/files, and double check them by clicking on settings and view files to make sure there no cookies in the box.

I do this prior to clicking on each offer I've chosen, that way everything is clean...you are permanently connected to your referral, nothing changes that.

And if you think you may have made a mistake, or didn't let a page load all the way, close it out and start again, unless it happens to be the credit card info page. Once this is submitted, do not try to go back as you may cause a duplicate offer completion, risk fraud, and double charges to your card.

I've gotten rid of 98% of my crediting issues taken care of. Thank goodness!

Margot

[laurelwm]

[aeyz]

margot you have totally helped me a lot!
cz ive bn having the same problem!
nd m really getting upset with it and i thought that my account has problems or sumthin...
you've totally helped me a lot...

but just for clarification purposes...

if you do the disk clean up and/or disk defragmenter..
would i stil need to check on the hidden toolbar and search for that other cookie folder?

im currently using another pc right now,so i wont be able to do those stuff now but i sure will asap.!

thanx a lot!

[sandra habina]

EXCELLENT INFORMATION MARGOT - thankyou so much. I am sure this will help alot of people.

As for checking the TOS, I have heard that you should wait on the landing page without wandering for 5-10 minutes before leaving it, so I would check the TOS prior to signing up for the offer.

[patrick_7412]

Very nice guide, it has helped some of my noobs I've been teaching

[weebles_five]

This is the best info. I had been having the same problem until Margot and Sandra told me what to do. This should be the "bible" of doing credits.

Thanks

[Margot530]

[Rewman]

IE + Delete Temp files + Delete Cookies
Has failed me only once thus far.

[Margot530]

[chrome89k]

[Margot530]

[chrome89k]

honestly... if ANYTHING made getting credit for hard earned offers a 100% thing.... there would be WAY more people involved... because i know a number of people who were just plain tired of spending money on offers and just being let down by lack of requirement fulfillments

[Margot530]

I do agree with you! There are no fool proof ways to ensure you green. Many factors involved, including the offer, site, and the persons knowledge of clearing cookies/files etc... However, the better armed a person is, the more chance of success they will have.

My only goal here is to help out with some issues that people have been having that I myself found useful. I'm in no way saying that my way is the only way or the best way, or that I am smarter than any other person on this forum, (Lord knows I have my blond moments) just trying to be helpful where I can.

You have done well for yourself, and I think many of us that aren't there already, hope to be where you are in time, and learning is part of that process.

Congratulations on your success, and I hope you keep going strong

Margot

[chrome89k]

always a helpful, cheerful margot... power to you

ps i still think you should be a model

[seriouschase]

[mwh2007]

I'll definitely check for a folder I missed. I wound up with some offers crediting that I didn't think went through, so had three 1/2 offers when I only needed two. I would have thought as an IT pro, I would not have overlooked any as I know most of the hidden locations on XP, but hadn't thought of using the search function.

Off topic - when would I bump a thread and how is it done? I see it all over the place but wasn't sure how it is accomplished.

[Margot530]

[onestepback]

Holly Cow I had 243 cookies in another folder on my other harddrive!

I normally never have a problem crediting with firefox but the last two offers I did roadloans (approved btw) and another one I forget did not credit, so this may have solved my problem. '

Thank you

[chrome89k]

[Margot530]

That is so great to hear onestepback and chrome89k....so glad it got cleaned up, and will probably have a lot less trouble greening! That's so awesome to hear that I actually am helping...that's my goal

Keep me posted, and would love to hear more success stories!

Margot

[mwh2007]

I did a cookie search and only found a hidden folder listed under "default user" that I already knew about.

For what it might be worth, If you are running IE7, take a look at where your temporary internet files are located. This can be found by opening the internet options control panel and clicking on the "settings" button for browsing history on the "general" tab. Once the settings window is open, you can click on the "view files" button.

If you sort the resulting window by file type (click on the type tab) you will see a list of text files with "cookie" in the name either at the top or bottom of the window. If they are on the bottom, I simply click the type tab again to bring them to the top by switching the sort order.

Typically, you might see xml documents before the text documents (which are mainly cookie files) depending on how recently you deleted temporary internet files. If you leave this window open and click the "delete cookies. . ." button on the delete browsing history window, you should see the cookie files disappear Clicking the "delete files. . ." button will remove the remaining files in the folder. I often leave this window open between offers and refresh the screen to confirm that new files have been deleted. If you don't refresh the screen, you might think there are no files present in this folder when there actually are.

I also noticed that I could not find this folder by looking for it with Windows explorer (even with hidden files visible) but it can be opened through the internet options control panel or by opening the start menu, then clicking "Run. . ." and entering the following: "C:\Documents and Settings\xxx\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files"

Just make sure you replace the xxx with your username.

I have noticed that even with clearing everything in proper sequence, an offer still might not credit Perhaps I should try keeping the confirmation page open for a full 10 minutes+ and see if that increases my offer credit success. I just noticed one site which indicated offer credit takes about 10 minutes. The sites I did previously just said "instant"

[Sweetmama]

FYI - I had been clearing cookies on my login, but not my husbands and admin. I deleted everything except the index.dat file for each. Hope this helps! Never dawned on my to clear those files, not sure if it'll matter but it cant' hurt.

[Margot530]

More awesome info mwh2007! Sure it will help many, and that is what we all need ...that extra something that gives us a better chance of greening.

I found another useful bit of info that may seem obvious to some, but it never occurred to me till today.

I had started a site, cleared my cookies and files, and for some reason, after checking my files to make sure there were no cookies, I double checked it again....found a ton of cookies that weren't there before. Tried it again with the same result. So in other words, I checked my files just as I normally would, and then rechecked them after closing the tools boxes...this is where I found the other cookies....hope this makes sense. Somehow, they didn't show the first time, but just before I was about to go ahead and click on the offer, I checked again and found them.

I did a disk clean up, and this helped, but found out my problem was this simple...I had other tabs open, and they were attaching cookies on as I closed the internet tools boxes. So for new and old alike, keep only your FIPG forum open along with the site you are going to do the offer on.

May seem so obvious it's dumb, but I bet there are people out there that didn't know this, even my yahoo mess was getting in the way...get rid of all open tabs, even those hidden in your tool bar.

Thanks again for all your input, I love all the response and useful info from techy's which I'm not ...just learning as I go, and want to help others learn these things first, before they make the mistakes I have!

Much success to you all!

Margot

[mwh2007]

[sandra habina]

Margot thankyou for all this research and information you have given to us all. And I know it has helped so many.

Also I wanted to mention that I have read that you should wait on the landing page for 5-10 minutes each without wandering. Possibly that contributes to better crediting also.

Thankyou again Margot - you are awesome.

[Margot530]

[Margot530]

Going to give this a bump and try to let more new people read it...also read Bigwarbirds guide...Great info!

Margot

[sandra habina]

BUMP THIS INFORMATION UP IT IS AWESOME