Are u sure that adwords has a problem with cloaked referers? i've never heard of that before..

You can cloak your referrer for sure. Its fine with Max bounty and Google.

I wouldn't think it would be an issue. The concern of the network is that it's fraud traffic. If you have a good relationship with your network and they trust you it shouldn't be a problem at all. Anyone that sends all their campaign data through to their network isn't to smart in my book and I own a network

You can't cloak ref's you can only block them. Only way you could cloak that I'm aware of is to send to an interim page and then that's really a presell lander. Or I suppose you could send one of those "Looking for your best match" pages. Pause them there 2-3 seconds and then redirect them from there. I think that would cloak the ref but would really be considered a presell.

Just my 3 cents as usual!

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Even if his AM said he can't I wouldn't run **** to them and I'd find somewhere else to run it. Way to easy to steal campaigns.

Totally agree with CLcrax23...best thing is to as your Affiliate Manager. Why risk everything it sounds like you've built?

The question I'd ask is why do you want to cloak your referrer. If you are only looking to hide your real referring URL due to an (unwarrented) worry that we'd steal your ideas, then simply use a third party tracking tool, like prosper202. Then all we'll see is the p202 link.

While cloaking on it's own doesn't mean anything bad, and we certainly do not have a problem with it, if there are any quality issues reported by the merchant it just looks a bit suspicious.