A tricky question about how redirections work

trozma · Nov 30, 2010

Hey. I have a quick question. Let's suppose:
1. I send an email to person A on gmail. The sent email contains a link to my site mysite.com .
2. Person A opens his gmail and clicks on the link within the email that I sent to him.
3. mysite.com opens in the person's A browser. Person A takes a look at mysite.com and then clicks on an affiliate link to an offer offer.com.
4. offer.com opens in the person's A browser.

What would the owner of offer.com see as the referrer?

sksugo · Nov 30, 2010

mysite.com would be the referrer. It wouldnt show any history of the person getting to the site form the email.

trozma · Nov 30, 2010

Ok. I get it

Thx

Extropy · Nov 30, 2010

Exactly. Referrer just stores the last place the user was before they hit the web site.

trozma · Dec 1, 2010

If the referrer is so important to CPA networks and online business in general, why don't browsers implement functionality to store more than the last referrer?

bertbaby · Dec 1, 2010

trozma said:
If the referrer is so important to CPA networks and online business in general, why don't browsers implement functionality to store more than the last referrer?

Privacy issues?

GreyWolf · Dec 1, 2010

trozma said:
If the referrer is so important to CPA networks and online business in general, why don't browsers implement functionality to store more than the last referrer?

LOL. Because CPA companies aren't writing the code for the browsers.

Even if a browser came out that did that, it would be seen as a privacy issue and people would avoid it like the plague.

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