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How to hide your LP from affiliate network? and whould we? (11)

11-19-2011 09:41 PM #1 rafael3000 (Member)
How to hide your LP from affiliate network? and whould we?

Hi guys. i'm using prosper 202. Will affiliate network see my Landing Page url? And should we somehow try to hide it from the network and from advertiser?

11-19-2011 10:25 PM #2 dantheman (Member)

Yes. Use the cloaking option. I believe that prosper202 something leaks the referrer, so you should check out a few cloakers out there that hide the referrer.

I forgot what the website was, but Chillyh20 had a link to it somewhere on the forum.

11-19-2011 10:49 PM #3 hunter (Member)

was wondering the same thing

is wplinktools still supported/working

11-19-2011 11:20 PM #4 sm1810 (Member)

I thought prosper cloaked correctly? So does cpvlab right?

11-20-2011 12:56 AM #5 zeno (Administrator)

Pretty sure the prosper202 cloaking isn't perfect but does a decent job, I would be more worried about speed. If a network really wants to they will be able to track down where the traffic is coming from regardless of what you do, at least I would hope they have enough knowledge/experience to be able to do so. Fraudulent affiliates and people sending poor quality/unapproved traffic to advertisers are pro-actively tracked down.

Why not have your LP on one domain -> CTA link goes to tracking link domain -> affiliate URL? You could also have your LP loaded as https and your tracking domain as http so you lose referrers before you even redirect to the affiliate URL.

11-20-2011 02:12 AM #6 polarbacon (Moderator)

Cpvlab has a 100% cloak option. As it checks to make sure the link is clean before redirecting....

Bth cloaking isn't worth it.....unless your pushing volume......even then....just work with networks that aren't asshats and you won't have issues......

11-20-2011 02:20 AM #7 hunter (Member)

woops, meant to say

is wplinkengine still supported/working

11-20-2011 04:16 AM #8 paycoguy (Member)

While we're on the subject of cloaking...I got flak from an advertiser who didn't like my ad on a direct link camp. How can they see this? Is the image coming through as the referrer when they use a tool like http headers?

11-20-2011 04:31 AM #9 dantheman (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by paycoguy View Post
While we're on the subject of cloaking...I got flak from an advertiser who didn't like my ad on a direct link camp. How can they see this? Is the image coming through as the referrer when they use a tool like http headers?
Lol. Nope.

They probably saw the traffic source you were promoting on, and they started spying around and saw yours and compared it with affiliate id's.

That's my guess.

11-20-2011 05:59 PM #10 Smaxor (Veteran Member)

Depending on the merchant, a lot of them patrol traffic sources. The same scrapers you use for stuff they use to make sure the ads that are running are compliant. There's a lot of ways to see what/how something is running besides looking at a referrer.

11-21-2011 04:31 PM #11 sm1810 (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by polarbacon View Post
Cpvlab has a 100% cloak option. As it checks to make sure the link is clean before redirecting....

Bth cloaking isn't worth it.....unless your pushing volume......even then....just work with networks that aren't asshats and you won't have issues......
sometimes [ahem] we have lots of typo domain traffic that i'm sure advertisers wouldn't approve

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