Do You Mask Your Traffic from Your Affiliate Program?

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I mean by doing redirects or whatever, so the motherfuckers can't see where the traffic is coming from? I mean as far as I'm concerned it's none of their motherfucking business. If I'm not violating their TOS, breaking any laws, then it's none of their fucking business where my traffic is coming from! Agree?

So has anyone tried masking their traffic like that.. and what was the affiliate program's reaction? Did they try to demand that you reveal the source or else? Now, I'm really talking about the case where you're not doing anything shady like illegal spamming, so the affiliate company does not have a legit reason to "investigate" you.. so if they grill you for the source - that would be just them being nosy little bitches, you know what I mean?

Thanks... in advance. Will appreciate all of your responses.
 


Over paranoid! Calling a company that pays you money for any program, motherfuckers? You are a class act douchebag!
 
they might girll you about the source if you're sending them traffic in high volume that doesnt convert down the road
(i.e. zip submits or email submits)
 
As much as I like the affiliate companies I work with, you fucking bet people there are looking at what you are doing and copying you. I've had some very sad stories from my friends about some of the BS thats been pulled.
 
When I'm accepted into an affiliate network, that is the FIRST question I ask my affiliate manager before I even start promoting any of the offers.

I simply send them a polite e-mail that says "Would it be okay if I masked/cloaked/hid my affiliate links using a PHP redirect? Thanks in advance!"

If the answer is NO, I drop my account right away and move on to another network.

Most reliable affiliate networks will allow you to hide/mask/cloak your links as long as you ask permission beforehand. This will prevent you from being banned from the network later. You'll have their response e-mail as proof that it was okay.

You know what they say... better safe than sorry. :rasta:
 
Depends on a lot of things

-network
-traffic
-volume
-complaints
-etc

Now with that said MyOwnDemon go back to referrer cleaning school cause a header redirect in in php ain't going to do the trick it'll carry your referrer right on through. Typically they're going to think it's email traffic if it has no referrer as that's how email traffic shows up.

Also it depends on how well your traffic converts, if you have traffic that converts really well for the advertiser but it super shady it's always going to be a risk reward situation. If you're making them 100k a month and they get 10 complaints a day to deal with it might be worth it to them. You just don't know.

I can say this the most important thing is to develop a relationship with your AM and build trust. Then once you have that ask them do you have anyone running this, do you think they'd take this kind of traffic, do you thiink I'll still get paid if they decide to kill my affiliate ID?

But always delete your referrers in my opinion as you won't want people copying what you're doing. Also if you're going to running PPC compaigns don't be dumb about it and pass your keyword in your subid, pass a key to a keyword in a db so when you get a 3487 you know that relates to "mokey sex". People will steal your keywords if you do it the other way. Always remember you have NO IDEA WHO'S LOOKING AT DIRECTTRACK... you might trust your affiliate company but you know nothing about DT....
 
smaxor said:
Now with that said MyOwnDemon go back to referrer cleaning school cause a header redirect in in php ain't going to do the trick it'll carry your referrer right on through. Typically they're going to think it's email traffic if it has no referrer as that's how email traffic shows up.
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We're talking about two completely different things here...

You're trying to mask the source completely.

I thought he was simply complaining about cloaking his links.



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