CJ + affiliate offer + blackhat site = trouble?

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Hi,
I'm looking to promote an affiliate offer on a spammy-ish blackhat site.
Trouble is, when you go to get the code for the link (in this case a graphic) from CJ they require that you choose one of your sites to associate with it.

I'm guessing that if I actually told them the real site I was putting the offer on they might not be too happy. Obviously I can tell them I'm going to put the ad on a nice whitehat site, but then just put it on the blackhat site, but won't they be able to figure this out? And if they did figure it out would they withhold my payments?

So, my question is basically what should I do?
 


cj themselves couldn't give a fuck. it all depends on the merchant you're promoting. and yes, they can see the referring site. one of my merchants is picky and demands i list every site i promote them on. BUT i dont think they really give a shit if the site is bh or wh. sales are sales.
 
Make a PHP file on a whitehat site domain, go.php or whatever.

Code: 
<?php

$URL = 'http://www.cj.com/link';
header ('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header ('Location: '. $URL);

?>
Problem solved, let them check the referrer and you'll be fine.
 
Scito said:
Make a PHP file on a whitehat site domain, go.php or whatever.

Code: 
<?php

$URL = 'http://www.cj.com/link';
header ('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header ('Location: '. $URL);

?>
Problem solved, let them check the referrer and you'll be fine.
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That'll still pass the referrer information. You need to use meta or javascript redirect.
 
Smashed said:
How would you do that DirSP?
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Meta redirect in the head of your html
Code: 
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://yahoo.com">
or

JS redirect
Code: 
<script type="text/javascript">
window.location = "http://www.google.com/";
</script>
 
You can just make a page on you whitehat site that has the code, and then iframe that in your blackhat site.
 
JS doesn't strip referers. Meta does most of the time. And I believe always does if you put a 2 sec delay in. Never actually tested that last one though.
 
The javascript and meta redirect method still leaks the referrer, not always with meta, but often enough, so Jason's iframe solution combined with the redirect maybe a really sexy solution.
 
havokb8 said:
your main problem is promoting anything on CJ. Good luck
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Tell that to my bank account... :error:

Anyway, what exactly is so bad on your blackhat site, that you wouldn't want an advertiser seeing in your profile? As an advertiser, I don't care if someone's using whitehat/blackhat SEO to drive traffic to my offers - I just care about any sort of method (such as adware) that could give my brand a negative image.
 
johu - there's nothing particularly bad about my site, I just figured that either CJ or the merchants would not be happy with promoting offers on blackhat sites.
 
Smashed said:
johu - there's nothing particularly bad about my site, I just figured that either CJ or the merchants would not be happy with promoting offers on blackhat sites.
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It's not like we have any clue of where your traffic actually comes from until you're actually sending traffic to us. Regardless, we can't see how traffic comes to your site, just how traffic comes to our link (we can see referrers). If you cloak links through a redirect, CJ may contact you to figure out what's going on in reality.

Anyway, CJ doesn't care about blackhat SEO - They don't care how you obtained your search engine positioning, and frankly, has no way of finding out.
 
FWIW, ssec is all blackhat with cloaking and everything and he says that he uses CJ to monetize his stuff.
 
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