wiping referrer info - is this right?

[jlknauff]

Is this the best way to go about wiping referrer info:

A black-hat site (site A) redirects visitors to a page on a pristine white-hat site (site B), which then meta redirects to a second page, and then meta redirects to a third page which finally meta redirects to the affiliate company's website.

The redirect from site A to site B is done via .htaccess based on certain criteria, and the meta redirects all take place on site B.

Is this the right way to do this? Do I even need to involve site B?

 

[micker]

dear god thats alot of refreshes. Are you running all these sites off of the same server and IP on cheap shared hosting account? Bet you are....

 

[Partyhat]

I just use prospers cloak function. simple and it works

 

[cardine]

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
window.location = "http://www.makemoniesonline.com"
//-->
</script>

 

[jlknauff]

dear god thats alot of refreshes. Are you running all these sites off of the same server and IP on cheap shared hosting account? Bet you are....

Technically, it's not that many. Two to wipe the referrer and one to go to the final destination.

No, several servers.

You still didn't answer my question though :cool2:

 

[jlknauff]

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
window.location = "http://www.makemoniesonline.com"
//-->
</script>

Is that better than meta refresh?

 

[redmonkey]

Questions are: Does it convert? How's the leads quality? You'll have troubles if your traffic sucks, regardless of how legit your traffic looks like. From my experience, using simple java+metarefresh is enough to blank/cloak referrer up to 95% of overall traffic. And i'm talking about tens of thousands hits/month traffic. Why bother going thru all that. If you want to make sure there won't be any referrer from blackhat source being passed to network, you could drop a couple of php lines to refresh it again or simply just stop that hit from going to network.

<?
if(!strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], "myblackhatdomain.com")){
header('location: http://networkoffer.com'); //OK, referer doesn't contain anything black. direct it to offer
}else{
header('location: refresh_again.php'); //snap, referer's still black - let's refresh it again.
//you could also stop traffic here instead of refreshing it again.

}
?>

This will completely hide your blackhat site source. Although it might not worth it if your traffic sucks.

 

[jlknauff]

Cool, I'll give your method a shot.

Re: the traffic; it's good. Targeted organic search traffic...I've gotten convertions from just displaying ads on the BH sites, so I'm going to send the traffic straight to the merchant and see how that works out.