Link cloaking

navyraiser

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Hey guys,

I was wondering if its possible to cloak links on a website. Lets say I have a website for which I want to run google ads. On that website I have a button which redirects the user to another website. Is it possible to solely cloak that link, meaning that real users get redirected to the actual page I want them to get redirected to, and a different one for google crawler?
 
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Some cloaking services offer such option. In this case, all visitors stay on the white page, but only those who pass the filters are redirected to the black page when they click the button. However, this approach leads to significant traffic loss since a large portion of the target audience simply doesn’t click the button.
 
Social Tools said:
You can use JavaScript to create interactive elements on your webpage, including cloaked links
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Interesting, but I guess crawler detection would need to be kind of the same like in normal website cloakers, which is pretty difficult without knowledge?
 
According to my experience, cloaking via JS is not the best approach for cloaking. As for link cloaking, any html element of a given page can be potentially manipulated through a cloaking system.
 
myplaysoft said:
According to my experience, cloaking via JS is not the best approach for cloaking. As for link cloaking, any html element of a given page can be potentially manipulated through a cloaking system.
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Can you guide me in a direction on how to accomplish that?
 
I understand you know programming so you may want to give a try for developing your own concept. The solution out of the box is pretty spicey.
 
navyraiser said:
Hey guys,

I was wondering if its possible to cloak links on a website. Lets say I have a website for which I want to run google ads. On that website I have a button which redirects the user to another website. Is it possible to solely cloak that link, meaning that real users get redirected to the actual page I want them to get redirected to, and a different one for google crawler?
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That's basically the first thing you do with cloaking. I guess everyone's first cloaker was a googlebot user agent script
 
Yeah, you could, but Google's gotten pretty good at sniffing that out. Might be easier to just make sure the landing page is compliant.
 
Idk, I used a function that created a link using js and swaped it out by the time user could get to the link, idk if it did anything or not, but I think it did.
 
If the peoples need to go through hops to get to your actual bh offer then you will lose the traffic as many peoples don't have patience to navigate to your offer
 
navyraiser said:
Hey guys,

I was wondering if its possible to cloak links on a website. Lets say I have a website for which I want to run google ads. On that website I have a button which redirects the user to another website. Is it possible to solely cloak that link, meaning that real users get redirected to the actual page I want them to get redirected to, and a different one for google crawler?
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What you need, is a middle-layer also known as content delivery network a.k.a CDN (example: cloudflare). You can configure redirection rules with a Pro plan.

E.G: Creating rules for verified category of bots (which include google) to cloak them from seeing your real destination.
 
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