Tech URL Specialist Question

[RummyBoy]

Lets say you use URL forwarding (non-frame) to forward:

Domains A, B and C

to:

Domain D

and lets say Domain D is forwarding to an affiliate reflink on Domain E

My question is, can Domain E identify or see Domain A, B or C on its web stats? Will Domain E become aware of Domain A, B or C to know that they exist?

[editeur]

It depends on how you do forwarding. If you do 301 or 302 redirects than yes, referer will be preserved, E will be able to identify A, B and C. If you do redirect via javascript or META REFRESH on domain D, it depends on the browser, some do preseve referer, some don't.
There's so called "double meta refresh" method exists to make sure referer does not leak - it combines client redirect with another, second redirect which checks if referer was blanked.
Or, if you're ok with blank referer, you can just make domain D work via https and do meta refresh or javascript redirects from this domain - https blanks referer.

[Ferus]

If done correctly, Domains A, B and C will not be visible.
I NEVER show my quality traffic sources, because most of my traffic are from paid spots

[RummyBoy]

<?php 
        echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;url=URL2\">"; 
?>

<?php 
    $referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; 
    if($referer == "") 
    { 
        echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;url=http://www.youraffiliatelink.com\">";     
    } 
?>

How about this for double meta refresh? Any of you know if it can work properly to hide the referrer? And how to execute this plan (for the technically challenged?).

[seeandsee]

There are some tool to hide reffer

[RummyBoy]

Originally Posted by seeandsee

There are some tool to hide reffer

Anyone tried any of these?

HTTP-Referer Hiding Tool - Ref Off

Referer.info - Best Hide referrer & link anonymously

https://www.hidemyass.com/anonymous-referrer#!

Which is the best?
For simplicity of application in my situation?

[Barry-xlovecam]

Only the last refer 'D' is seen on the destination 'E' server's log. There is only one referrer per line (hit) in a server log possible.

Domain A, B and C will be penalized for SEO because of the redirects, if they are meta refresh, if that is an issue.

#.htaccess Apache

Redirect permanent /dir/1234.htm   http://DOMAIN.com/file.htm

Redirect temp /dir/1234.htm  http://DOMAIN.com/file.htm

git er done!

[RummyBoy]

Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam

Only the last refer 'D' is seen on the destination 'E' server's log.

Even if all the traffic ending up at destination 'E' are from domains using url redirect?

Anyone know if any of those URL shortener services also kill the referrer info? It might be an easy solution if we only have to use url redirection to the URL shortener url.

[Barry-xlovecam]

A=>B=>????>E
B is now the referrer is what I meant
The man-in-the-middle is the referrer to E

[faxxaff]

Shorteners will not erase referrer info.