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How to Protect Your Traffic From Alexa and Block Sending Any/All Referrers (7)

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Ok seems like this is a popular thing so I thought I would make a short little post about it as its not all that difficult

so ask and ye shall receive

ok first off you need a https domain....I would also recommend this not be your tracking domain as that just kinda asking for trouble.....


also I would recommend on that domain you follow step 4 on this thread

http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread...ct-Your-Assets

as that prevents indexing and stuff..

next make a file called go.php the code is below upload it to that SSL domain

[PHP]<?
$link= $_GET["link"];
$sub = $_GET["sub"];
header( "Location: $link$sub" ) ;
?>[/PHP]

How to use this?

think of this as a "layer" in between what ever you want, when you want to blank referrers...

so if you wanted to block Alexa from showing clickstream....you would put this in front of your tracking domain

and code it such

[PHP]https://yourssldomain.com/go.php?link=http%3A%2F%2Fencoded-tracking-domain.com%3Fsubid%3D&sub=YOUR KEYWORD[/PHP]

encoding a url is easy go here http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

just put the tracking link that 202 or cpvlab gives you and click encode

so whatever you put in as the link it will go there....whatever is added after "sub=" will be added to the link (tracking keyword)

why this all works?

well you can't pass referrer info from a https domain to a http domain for security reasons sooooo referrer is blanked.....

you can use this script anywhere just make sure you put HTTPS in front of it and all things should be golden....


Last Thing The flying dutchman (Tjin) is rocking my ass in thanks....so if you could give the unicorn some luvin' for this post I shall glitter ye a plenty

pb

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I knew there was a way to do it! Good shit polar.

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great stuff.

quick question though - cpvlab has the option to blank referrers already. would i still need this as well?

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I'm not sure how well CPV lab does it, but I know prosper's cloaking isn't foolproof. You get the occasional referrer dropped through. Few things are 100% secure for blanking referrer. Using this + your tracking's cloaking is double protection, and that can't hurt (as long as it's not slowing down your process to the point where you drop visitors.)

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its basically so you can hide where your tracker's traffic is coming from....so if they find your tracker.....eg.....theflyingdutchmansuperawesometr ackerness.com.......they won't find where your traffic is coming from via alexa clickstream.....

cpvlab and 202 blank to your lp and to the cpa offer......but this would blank out above that.......

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ah cool. good tip - hadnt realized. i guess with ppv this is not too much of an issue as the target page is not incl in the referrer when your pop is loaded.

z6marketing - cpvlab v2.12 now has to option to guarentee blank referrers by just rotating until its blanked.

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Yeah my business partner told me that last night - he was really excited about it. He uses CPVLab more than I do to be honest. I've got fairly decent results with prosper cloaking + a https->http redirect so I don't worry about it too much, but its good to know I have both options available to me.

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