Do I even need to hide my referrer?

kaj01

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Right now traffic goes like this:

Craigslist > my website > CPA link

My website does not automatically redirect. It's just optimized to convert the traffic.

Do I need to bother with hiding my traffic source, or is what I'm doing now ok?
 
Well in your case you don't need to hide your traffic because your website will be the referrer.
 
Thanks blazen. Do you think my current set up would pass with the networks as-is? Or do I still need to do something about the CL thing?
 
You should be fine mate but if you want to be 100% sure use a double meta refresh.
 
Hmm well what I was thinking was that I could set up something like this:

craigslist > blank auto refresh page > my site > merchant

This way when my network uses the backlink checker tool on my website they see:
article link
article link
forum link
redirect link
blog comment link
article link

Rather then:
craigslist
craigslist
craigslist
craigslist
craigslist


I'll do some research on double meta refresh. Thanks guys, you put my mind at ease a little bit.
 
I would do it like this:

CL > Yoursite > PHP Redirect > CPA Link

So that you can easily change out of the offer if you need to and it makes your links look nicer.

Here is some example code for the PHP redirect:

PHP:
<?php
header("Location: http://www.affiliate-link.com/?subid1=blah");
?>
 
is there any way to fake referer..????

can some one out here write a script- which can fake referer??

really it will be helpfull to a lot of guys around..

in cs as well as many other things..

come one - all u codeing genious here !!
some one come out with such a script

will surely make u hell lot of $$$$$$
 
well....i would hide my referrer 50% of the time...that way when the aff networks ask you where your getting your traffic on you can give them an answer
 
Genjutsu, I thought that the referrer was the website that sent traffic to the merchant. In my case it's: my website > merchant. There are currently no redirects / refreshes of any kind going on. When CL traffic gets to my site, it looks like exactly what they were expecting to find and they convert by themselves by clicking my links.

Assuming no redirects are being used, my network would see my website as being the referrer, even though my website got it's traffic from CL. Am I right about this or no?

Timk - there is a recent thread in this forum about somebody who just wrote such a script. Supposedly it works really well. It's somewhere under 'blackhat SEO'. I read it last night so it should still be on the first page.
 
Genjutsu, I thought that the referrer was the website that sent traffic to the merchant. In my case it's: my website > merchant. There are currently no redirects / refreshes of any kind going on. When CL traffic gets to my site, it looks like exactly what they were expecting to find and they convert by themselves by clicking my links.

Assuming no redirects are being used, my network would see my website as being the referrer, even though my website got it's traffic from CL. Am I right about this or no?

Timk - there is a recent thread in this forum about somebody who just wrote such a script. Supposedly it works really well. It's somewhere under 'blackhat SEO'. I read it last night so it should still be on the first page.

if someone goes from CL to your site and then clicks to your offer naturally, you are right they will see your site as the referrer.

What Gen was referring to was using a php redirect. In that case if you went from CL > php redirect > offer, then the offer site would see CL as the referrer.

Hope that helps
 
Thanks zone that cleared things up for me.
 
to avoid cl referrer being shown, u can include an IF statement, if referrer does not contain CL url, then u can redirect. that should do the trick, works 100%
 
Are you posting a clickable image ad? A text / image AD that includes your URL?
How many posts per day?

I ask because you can end up getting your URL banned if you have it in your ADs like that with no redirect.
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