framing and third party redirects

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Hello, and Thank you all for being here.
I am a newbie affiliate marketer and and I have just set up my first landing page. If you would help me, I have 2 questions please.

From my landing page, I have set up a php redirect, for my link that goes to the vendors site, so that when you hover over it, it says mysite.com/reccomends/specialoffer.php and it works great while hovering.

But when you click on the link and get to the vendors site, the address bar shows my affiliate link instead of my php redirect link.

Is there a way to hide my affiliate link all the way to (and including) the destination address bar?


I have deleted question #2 from this post as it has already been addressed.

Thank You very much,
Rusty
#programming #framing #party #redirects
  • I know what you mean. This is the next level to cloaking your affiliate links.

    You can do this by either using an iframe or cURL (look it up). With either technique though, your website will feature in the address bar. There is no way to control what features in the address bar at the vendors site apart from basic (?var=val) queries appended to the link.

    That's how affiliate links currently work.

    There may be another way where if the vendor uses cookies after a visit to track affiliates - you could have cURL possibly view the site, create the cookie, then redirect to the site. That would means nobody would even see your affiliate id in the address bar at the vendors site. Of course, that's a half baked idea.

    On the tracking of your own clicks - yeh, what you do is in your script which redirects to the vendors site, you create a block of code which will log the click either in a database or log file. Then, a step further would be to write something which can display that data in a nice format. To develop even more on that idea is to track other variables which can come with a click like how the person reached the page in which they clicked your affiliate link etc etc

    Again, you have to do this on your own server. You can't control other people's servers.

    Hope that helps.
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    • Hi Damien,
      Thank you for responding to my questions.
      I must admit that after seeing your response, it seems that this might be more above my head than I originally thought. Ive always been able to learn on the fly and do new things. I figured this would be more of the same.

      I didnt really understand what you were trying to tell me but you have given me some new terms to start with.
      Thank you very much trying to bring me up to speed. I really appreciate it.
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