Point of hiding referrer?

KMatt · 05-09-2010, 04:49 PM

If you are doing everything completely white hat what is that point of hiding where your traffic comes from? Kinda confused on why everyone does it.

Affiliit · 05-09-2010, 05:04 PM

People don't want networks/advertisers to steal there landing pages

williamrs · 05-09-2010, 07:20 PM

Many affiliate managers are affiliates, too. So many people (specially big affiliates) blank the referrer in order to protect their traffic sources.

Kenster · 05-09-2010, 07:53 PM

hiding your traffic = protecting your assets in many situations as described above. Its tough to hide what you are doing to the world because your ads/landing pages, etc are public, but you do try and hide as much as possible on the backend such as revenue you are making, etc which the networks can see.

uche2rue · 05-09-2010, 07:57 PM

To protect your landing page and source of traffic

RyanEagle · 05-09-2010, 08:03 PM

We always suggest to our affiliates to hide that information - we don't need to see people's landing pages.

KMatt · 05-13-2010, 08:41 AM

Ok so I put a redirect in to hide my landing page and am using
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url='affiliate link'">
on my redirect page but when it goes to the affilate site the link is like affiliatesite.com/subid=oskmsejkmgeoakmfoeme and gives like tracking id and such. what other code do I need to add in to hide the affiliate link using that code?

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dreamedia · 05-13-2010, 09:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KMatt

Ok so I put a redirect in to hide my landing page and am using
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url='affiliate link'">
on my redirect page but when it goes to the affilate site the link is like affiliatesite.com/subid=oskmsejkmgeoakmfoeme and gives like tracking id and such. what other code do I need to add in to hide the affiliate link using that code?

you need to do a double meta-refresh to really blank the referrer...

You have a link on your page that links to URL1, which then sends you to URL2, which then sends you to your affiliate link if the referrer is blank.

<?php
$referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
if($referer == "")
{
echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;url=URL2\">";
}
?>

<?php
$referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
if($referer == "")
{
echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;url=youraffiliatelink.com\">";
}
?>

williamrs · 05-13-2010, 10:27 AM

Your PHP script checks if the referral is blank in both pages. So, most of the times you won't get the expected result in the first page. You should try something like this:

page1.html (send people from your landing page to this page)

<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;url=page2.php\">

//remove all the \ before the "

page2.php (upload this file to the same directory as page1.html)

<?php

if (($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] == "") || ($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] == null))

echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;url=affiliate_link\">";

else

header("Location: page1.html");

?>

05-09-2010, 04:49 PM	#1
KMatt Warrior Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 12 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Point of hiding referrer? If you are doing everything completely white hat what is that point of hiding where your traffic comes from? Kinda confused on why everyone does it.

05-09-2010, 05:04 PM	#2
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05-13-2010, 08:41 AM	#7
KMatt Warrior Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 12 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Point of hiding referrer? Ok so I put a redirect in to hide my landing page and am using <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url='affiliate link'"> on my redirect page but when it goes to the affilate site the link is like affiliatesite.com/subid=oskmsejkmgeoakmfoeme and gives like tracking id and such. what other code do I need to add in to hide the affiliate link using that code?

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williamrs Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Brazil Posts: 3,496 Thanks: 174 Thanked 1,159 Times in 614 Posts	Re: Point of hiding referrer? Your PHP script checks if the referral is blank in both pages. So, most of the times you won't get the expected result in the first page. You should try something like this: page1.html (send people from your landing page to this page) <meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;url=page2.php\"> //remove all the \ before the " page2.php (upload this file to the same directory as page1.html) <?php if (($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] == "") \|\| ($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] == null)) echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;url=affiliate_link\">"; else header("Location: page1.html"); ?>
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