Completely Hiding Aff ID's

[illusion]

Hey guys,

I am doing going to be testing some stuff over the next few weeks, and I want to completely hide my affiliate ID.

I realise you could do an iframe but that would be viewable by viewing the source. Is there some way you could do it like obfuscating the aff ID and then drawing it from the database?

I don't want them to be able to see my affiliate ID AT ALL. Even by viewing the source or URL bar.

ANy help?

 

[Mike]

Flash buttons will do this. For contextual, you could do a redirect with .htaccess. So, your code would look like:

<a href="http://www.your site.com/whatever">Text here</a>

Then have a redirect setup in .htaccess:

RedirectPermanent /whatever http://www.YourAffiliateLink.com

 

[Dio]

I've used this little php jump script - it's fairly straight forward and makes your affiliate links look like they are within your domain

 

[Julez]

this handy script - also tracks the clicks in the admin area
Click counter and download counter

 

[illusion]

I don't wanna just hide my aff id in the click, but I also wanna hide it on the page they are at, so have it in an iframe and then obfuscate it there as well, so nobody at all can find out

Thanks for the links

 

[Juicify]

What SEO_Mike said would be the best way, not possible to see in source. They would have to watch the network traffic with a sniffer or maybe the most simple, use Live HTTP Headers for firefox. It's impossible to totally hide it.

 

[illusion]

Is it legal to take the input from a form you make and send it to the aff company through cURL?

 

[shaggz]

Is it legal to take the input from a form you make and send it to the aff company through cURL?

They probably wouldn't like seeing all your submissions coming from the same IP address.

What i've done before is do the IFrame, but have the iFrame src url be a redirect url. So, even if they view the source, they still don't see it. However, they can still track it down by sniffing the HTTP headers.

 

[illusion]

What i've done before is do the IFrame, but have the iFrame src url be a redirect url. So, even if they view the source, they still don't see it. However, they can still track it down by sniffing the HTTP headers.

They would have to be pretty fucking nosey to want to find you right? PM sent

 

[gixxer]

Yeah if someone has the live http headers plugin, your pretty much screwed there

And carefull with iframing, some cpa offers wont convert in iframes