Best Way Of Cloaking Traffic When DirectLinking?

[lalaha]

I was wanting to direct link to an affiliate offer, but I want to be safe from the aff company possibly stealing my keywords.

Whats the best way to cloak your refferal traffic when direct linking?

 

[s1mplygo1d]

iframe or meta/js refresh.

check that the referrer is your site before redirecting to the offer though

 

[lalaha]

iframe and meta/js refresh, is not direct linking though right?

 

[s1mplygo1d]

well, no. but there is no way to hide it if you direct link (even via a http redirect)

 

[lalaha]

What about tracking202 or Link and referer cloaker - Cloak links and referers ? Does that work?

 

[machinecontrol]

The best 100% foolproof way that doesn't require JS enable is just header:location in PHP, creating a nice search engine friendly 302 redirect.

<?php
header("Location: http://www.example.com/");
?>

 

[ummdav1d]

What about tracking202 or Link and referer cloaker - Cloak links and referers ? Does that work?

Yes.

 

[nickycakes]

The best 100% foolproof way that doesn't require JS enable is just header:location in PHP, creating a nice search engine friendly 302 redirect.

<?php
header("Location: http://www.example.com/");
?>

this absolutely does not cloak anything

 

[bubbles]

Meta:

<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="X;URL=yourpage.html">

x is the number of seconds until redirect

JavaScript:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
window.location = "http://www.google.com/"
//-->
</script>

If you do JS make sure you have Meta below it incase they have JS disabled.

 

[LotsOfZeros]

I've often wondered how this redirect will affect your campaign when Google goes to check your site to assign QS

 

[xmcp123]

I've often wondered how this redirect will affect your campaign when Google goes to check your site to assign QS

It doesn't at all if you restrict the redirect file in robots.txt from the start like you should

 

[LotsOfZeros]

but then Google will see nothing, that won't screw you on QS?

 

[xmcp123]

but then Google will see nothing, that won't screw you on QS?

You don't restrict the homepage..just the affiliate url redirection one. And while I havent tested it, I'm 99% sure it's fine(I havent had any issues). Robots.txt isn't seen as sketchy from them. You're allowed to deny.
I think of it like this: They want our LPs to be like normal sites. Normal sites DO forbid the crawlers from certain urls. So it'd be insane to set it up otherwise.

 

[CygnusX]

I shared my cloaking script a few weeks ago in this thread: http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate-marketing/32878-my-script-cloaking-geotargetting.html

 

[tob]

If you are DIRECT LINKING you can't cloak.

If you are pushing through an iframe or any other method - then meta refresh.

That's all there is to it.

 

[lalaha]

But Iframe and meta refresh F's up your QS no?