Setting up a bounce for referral affiliate links

[Stanley]

Not sure how many people here can answer this question, but let's try anyway.
Instead of directly linking to an affiliate page, I'm linking to a php file which has an array with the links..

so instead of this -

<a href="http://www.affiliate.com?id=243993284092348092384">my link</a>

I now do this -

<a href="bounce.php?id=1">my link</a>

bounce.php looks like this -

$id=$_GET['id'];
$links[1]="http://www.affiliate.com?id=243993284092348092384";
header("Location: $links[$id]");

bounce.php gets the id of the link, and redirects to the appropriate page without a problem
so everything works except I'm not sure if this is allowed?

I'm doing this with linkshare and cj links... I know CJ has an <img> after the links, I'm not sure what it's for but I know I shouldn't remove it... does that still work in this case?

 

[Saadh]

aside from your CJ point, which I don't know about, why wouldn't it be allowed for other affiliates? It seems good.

 

[Stanley]

linkshare and cj both use <img> after links
I wanted to make sure I'm still getting the referral since the link is different

 

[bwb]

linkshare and cj both use <img> after links
I wanted to make sure I'm still getting the referral since the link is different

yep you do, that is just for their impressions versus clicks stat they offer

 

[Jan]

I'm new and learning......if you have a little time, could you explain to me what the bounce actually does and why you feel its of benifit? thanks!

 

[bwb]

I'm new and learning......if you have a little time, could you explain to me what the bounce actually does and why you feel its of benifit? thanks!

Sure, here are a few thoughts:

1. tells you which ads are selling
2. tells you which key words are doing the selling
3. if logged right can give you long tail keywords from ppc that will cost less