Double Meta Refresh With .htaccess Method

**digitalpower** · 01-09-2009, 12:44 AM

I've been messing around with methods posted here and made a double meta refresh and .htaccess combination cloaking method.

Create page1.php that contains the following code:

HTML Code:

<html>
<head>
<?php
echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;url=http://www.yourdomain.com/page2.php\">";
?>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Create page2.php that contains the following code:

HTML Code:

<html>
<head>
<?php
    $referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
    if($referer == "") {        
	echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;url=http://www.yourdomain.com/page3.php\">";		
    }
?>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Create page3.php that contains the following code:

HTML Code:

<html>
<head>
<?php
    $referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
    if($referer == "") {        
	echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;url=http://www.youraffiliatedomain.com?querystring=whatever\">";		
    }
?>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Finally create a .htaccess file that contains the following:

Code:

Redirect 301 /page3.php http://www.youraffiliatedomain.com?querystring=whatever

You need a web host that supports .htaccess and PHP for this to work so 000webh0st this will work great. When you send the user to page1.php either directly or from a hyperlink on another domain, the code above will blank the referrer and also make it so the user cannot see your affiliate link in the address bar of the web browser. In the case that the .htaccess file fails, the user will still be redirected to the affiliate link but it will be visible in the address bar. Please let me know if you see any issues with this or if you think this can be improved further.

**jaymartins** · 01-09-2009, 12:47 AM

WOW - Very well explained - I'm going to try this out tomorrow morning.

**zongoneri** · 01-10-2009, 01:56 AM

I will try also, i give feedback a later... just testing 1st...

**pinholeglasses** · 02-16-2009, 07:25 AM

Hmm this seems to be exactly what I'm looking for, but it's not working for me. If one of you coding experts could help me out I'd really appreciate it.

Basically, I want:

1. a double meta refresh to blank referrer

2. the address bar url to stay the same (to hide the fact that it is an affiliate link.)
I have read that mod_rewrite works well for this purpose, but I don't know how to implement this.

**hyp959** · 02-16-2009, 12:01 PM

great share
i will try it
thanks

**pinholeglasses** · 02-16-2009, 04:14 PM

Actually, I don't even need a double meta refresh. I just need to redirect my domain to the affiliate link AND maintain my domain url.

So I want to put a link to h_ttp://w_ww.mydomain.com/ in an article, which redirects to h_ttp://affiliatelink.com/affid=34344 WITHOUT h_ttp://affiliatelink.com/affid=34344 showing up in the address bar. It would be great if mydomain.com showed up in google results as well.

Anyone have a suggestion?