this is from the neverblue affiliate deal with the $250 zip submit...
This is the link that you are given by nb.
it takes you to this page, where you are supposed to enter your zipcode and hit submit.
I was tracking down people providing this affiliate offer and trying to learn from their shit...I'm not trying to out anyone, If this is really rude to post these examples here, someone tell me how I can edit it to make it less revealing and I will, but anyway...
This particular affiliate has their own site up...with their own enter your zip code box and submit button, and here is the link that gets submitted from THAT box.
After a moment, you end up at this site.
Obviously it's still submitting the address, and this person is getting their conversion...but then instead of the traffic ending up at the offer...the affiliate gets credit, and spirits them away to their own site. sneaky!
I have a few questions about this...
first off...is this against nb tos? I would assume this is a 'no-no'...what would nb do if they catch you?
secondly...more technical...how is this working? What technology is at work here in this url? Is it just general webserver semantics that I don't understand, or is this a CGI thing? What can I study to learn more about how this particular kind of url functions?
More explicitly...it doesn't appear as if there is anything in this url that is opening the second affiliate site...is it somehow encoded into there...or is it some JS or something on the initial site that rebounds the user over.
It's confusing to me, how they are doing this double-tap...they're hitting their link, then immediately ferrying the traffic somewhere else. How does this work?
Thanks for your time WickedFire...let me know if I can change this to make it less revealing.
This is the link that you are given by nb.
Code:
http://nbjmp.com/click/?s=30875&c=9250I was tracking down people providing this affiliate offer and trying to learn from their shit...I'm not trying to out anyone, If this is really rude to post these examples here, someone tell me how I can edit it to make it less revealing and I will, but anyway...
This particular affiliate has their own site up...with their own enter your zip code box and submit button, and here is the link that gets submitted from THAT box.
Code:
http://nbjmp.com/click/?o=1433&a=5453&c=30221&s=351&subid=grocerystores&ex=&zipcode=59801Obviously it's still submitting the address, and this person is getting their conversion...but then instead of the traffic ending up at the offer...the affiliate gets credit, and spirits them away to their own site. sneaky!
I have a few questions about this...
first off...is this against nb tos? I would assume this is a 'no-no'...what would nb do if they catch you?
secondly...more technical...how is this working? What technology is at work here in this url? Is it just general webserver semantics that I don't understand, or is this a CGI thing? What can I study to learn more about how this particular kind of url functions?
More explicitly...it doesn't appear as if there is anything in this url that is opening the second affiliate site...is it somehow encoded into there...or is it some JS or something on the initial site that rebounds the user over.
It's confusing to me, how they are doing this double-tap...they're hitting their link, then immediately ferrying the traffic somewhere else. How does this work?
Thanks for your time WickedFire...let me know if I can change this to make it less revealing.