How do you hide referrers from your CPA network

black_ice007 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-12-2008, 03:58 PM

I have a site that has the following html code:

<frameset rows="100%,*" border="0">

<frame src="MY AFFILIATE ID" frameborder="0" />
<frame frameborder="0" noresize />

</frameset>

I'm trying to understand whether the CPA network will know where my traffic is coming from. I'm basically loading the CPA networks offer landing page into a frame on my site. Is this the best way to hide referrers?

stephan · #2 (**permalink**) 03-12-2008, 04:15 PM

They still see where it comes from.

You can do it this way.

Don't put your affiliate link into the source. Create a php file on your server (get a free one if you need one. Look in my signature if you need some free hosting) and put this code in the index.php file

<?php
$header = "Location: YOUR AFFILIATE LINK\n";
$header = "Referer: \n";
header($header);
?>

I haven't tested it yet but it should work

stephan · #3 (**permalink**) 03-12-2008, 04:22 PM

Just played with the code and it doesn't work. Will keep playing and let you know.

**Professor** · #4 (**permalink**) 03-12-2008, 04:52 PM

You could use this meta refresh:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.afflink.com">
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

That should work, as far as I understand. This was taken from Ruck's blog btw.

arcarc · #5 (**permalink**) 03-12-2008, 05:16 PM

how about refresh in php?

header( 'refresh: 1; url=http://urlgoeshere' );

jelf1 · #6 (**permalink**) 03-12-2008, 05:29 PM

meta refresh works i was hoping this guys php code would work above (not the refresh one) but it doesnt a php solution would rock my world

arcarc · #7 (**permalink**) 03-12-2008, 05:48 PM

what? my method won't work?

originally i used to use:

<?
header("Location:http://www.affiliatelinkgoeshere");
?>

but switched to

<?
header( 'refresh: 1; url=http://www.affiliatelinkgoeshere' );
?>

then looked at the http header plugin from firefox to see and less info was passed with the 2nd method.

hope i'm right. right?

**Pryda** · #8 (**permalink**) 03-12-2008, 05:54 PM

Try http://cloakedlink.com
It auto-generates a page with a meta refresh for your link.

**Butler** · #9 (**permalink**) 03-12-2008, 07:20 PM

What about an image redirect or php redirect to another php file on your server, and inside the php file it will be...

<?php
header('Location: http://anonym.to/?http://www.youraff...5-54321');
?>

Would that remove the referrer??

black_ice007 · #10 (**permalink**) 03-12-2008, 08:07 PM

I just checked out Ruck's blog at

hxxp://cashtactics.net/01/07/sneaky-links-meta-refresh-vs-php-redirect/

It gives me everything i needed to know about hiding the referrer!!

Thanks alot people.

**Butler** · #11 (**permalink**) 03-12-2008, 09:06 PM

So will the meta refresh work if you were to use the forum image stuffing technique?

black_ice007 · #12 (**permalink**) 03-13-2008, 06:51 PM

Hello all,

I just tested this with a CPA network of mine that actually shows the referrer information in my panel and I found that it no longer shows the referrer information of people coming to my site. So this WORKS!!!!

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;URL=AFFILIATE URL HERE">
<title>SITE TITLE HERE</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>

**genomicist** · #13 (**permalink**) 03-13-2008, 09:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by black_ice007

Hello all,

I just tested this with a CPA network of mine that actually shows the referrer information in my panel and I found that it no longer shows the referrer information of people coming to my site. So this WORKS!!!!

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;URL=AFFILIATE URL HERE">
<title>SITE TITLE HERE</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>

Do you mind sharing which CPA network you were able to test this out with? I'm trying to use this code as well, but I don't know how to test to see if it's working.

**raj564** · #14 (**permalink**) 03-13-2008, 09:54 PM

theres a guy who wrote a detailed blog about it.

Code:

slightlyshadyseo.com