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Hiding your traffic source & LP (21)

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I'm surprised there are no discussion on this.

What are some of the things you can do to hide your TS & LP from the network and advertiser?

One thing I've done is purchase an SSL certificate via Namecheap.

I also use a meta refresh script for my outgoing link.

Not sure if doing these 2 things would be effective, anyone care to chime in?

I'm also going to get a different domain for outgoing links so no one can find the domain where my LP resides on. Think it'd work?

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The best route would be to buy an SSL for a domain, and an easy test is just to send traffic through it by the use of a hyperlink, and see if it cloaks the referring traffic.

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Read Tijns "Protect Your Nuts" thread series. It covers it all.

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I have posted on this no less than five times https>http you will blank everything with no leaks

and its a simple as sending them to a tracker with a ssl then redirecting to your lp or offer page....just put a ssl in between anything and your good to go...

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Yeah it's robust since all browsers picked it up as it's a well accepted security standard.

That being said, if you're sending dodgy traffic or whatever it's just a matter of time before people find out. If John Doe sees your ads and bounces through your tracking, redirects, LP etc then your someone from your affiliate network and the advertiser can as well. Whether they will or not is a different story. Depends on your reasons for hiding your traffic source.

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So do you mean we just add a "s" in the link that is generated by prosper so that it becomes https://yourdomain.com/t203kw= ... on domain that has ssl installed... Right?

If using a landing page with an outgoing php, it is cloaked automatically as far as I understand... Am I right? Please correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks!

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Yes use an https tracking domain or lander or whatever, and then have your outgoing link as http. Referrer information is never transferred when going from an https connection to an http one.

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They can still use compete, quantcast, alexa etc to see where you are getting hits.

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i thought the lp needs to have ssl installed because the referer wouldn't get blanked if you use an http LP and only your outgoing tracking link is https

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Yeah it will work. If your tracking domain is abc.com it goes like this:

Traffic source -> https://abc.com/... (here everything is blanked) -> http://thisismylander.com with an OUTGOING link (where people click on) which is something like https://abc.com/base.php (from your tracker) and everything is blanked again -> affiliate network link -> offer

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so basically i can setup a lander on a http domain like http://www.mylander.com and use ssl outgoing links like https://www.mylander.com/out.php and the ref would get blanked..so the LP wouldn't show up in the refs? is that correct?

does this also work if i setup a direct linking campaign in prosper and put https in the destination url for example

https://www.myprosper202.com/tracking202/redirect/dl.php?t202id=213453&t202kw=

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Yes, it will work. Hence why having an SSL cert for a tracking domain is useful. All you need to do is make sure the page that is loading your affiliate link, i.e. whatever comes immediately before the affiliate link, is https and the aff link is http. Referer will never be passed.

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would having https slow down your conversion rate ?

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it might as there always the chance of the red warning about a untrusted cert and/or a bit slower load of a domain with a ssl cuz of the ssl handshake....

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Use a javascript redirect to do it, seems to work good for me 100%

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isn't javascript unrealiable and it is a client side language, if people turn off javascript support, your javascript won't work anymore

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If people turn it off then it won't work, you are correct, but 99.9% of the people you're going to be making money off of will not have it turned off, mostly because they don't even know what javascript is and they are not intelligent enough to even know how to turn it off.

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more like 1-2% of the users..but still a very small percentage

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Yes, the ssl will definitely slow down the redirect due to additional "handshakes"

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then those folks who do, would have the worst internet experiences imaginable. All websites use javacsript to improve their visitors experience.

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I use NoScript, a lot of people do. More people should. Adding rules for sites and whitelisting domains becomes second-nature and doesn't slow you down. In fact it makes web browsing a lot easier (and safer) as nothing annoying happens without your permission. The only time it can be a bother is when going through new payment processing systems, at which point you temporarily turn it off to avoid vital stuff being blocked.

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