Cloaking Form URL's

[Atomm]

I am putting together my first dedicated affiliate page and I had a question. I know we are suppose to hide links to pages outside our own with a php redirect script or something and use a no follow tag, but what about get URL's in a form? (I used CJ's generate HTML Form for each product.)

Example:

<form method="get" action="http://www.someurl.net/directory" target="_top">

Does that really matter? Is there a better way I should be doing this?

Thanks!

 

[phpdevrus]

not sure if it matters, however you can use a redirect script and just forward the form if you use the get method. the redirect script needs to pick up the get data and forward it to the URL CJ gave you.

Using the Post method would be a little more complex and you would need to use something like php's curl to forward the data to the URL CJ gave you.

I dont know whether they will take this form url into account but ya i would do it anyways to be on the safe side.

Good Luck

 

[shaggz]

not sure if it matters, however you can use a redirect script and just forward the form if you use the get method. the redirect script needs to pick up the get data and forward it to the URL CJ gave you.

Using the Post method would be a little more complex and you would need to use something like php's curl to forward the data to the URL CJ gave you.

I dont know whether they will take this form url into account but ya i would do it anyways to be on the safe side.

Good Luck

If you do that all your leads will appear to originate from the server's IP Address. Some places might view that as quite suspicious. Also, as devrus said, be very aware of sending the correct form vars and cookies, especially if it's a POST request. If you send something wrong, you , may not get credit for the lead. If you are unsure how to do this, you'd be better off sticking to more straightforward methods.