How To… Cloak your referrer
When you are sending a lot of high-converting traffic to an affiliate link there is the possibility that the people selling the product you are recommending will try to reverse-engineer your marketing to compete with you or try to cut you out entirely, saving them from paying out all those commissions to you in the future.
The first clue they have is to look in their logs and to where the traffic you are sending them is coming from, by looking at the “referrer” stats, which shows the exact URL the person clicking on your marketing links came from.
GoTryTHIS can hide the referring link by cloaking the link.
Examples:
1. http://www.AnExampleSite.com/what_is_my_referrer.php
This is page, meant to represent the affiliate link. It displays the referring page, which is this blog post.2. http://www.AnExampleSite.com/still_see_the_referrer.html
This is a straight GoTryTHIS redirect link to the above page. See that the referring page is not hidden.3. http://www.AnExampleSite.com/you_cannot_see_me.html
This is a copy of the link in example 2. Now the referring page is the link shown in example 3, not the real page, being this blog post as shown in example 1 and 2. The traffic source is hidden!