Hi i want to link to a site on my webpage, but want to keep the other site from knowing that my visitors went to their site through mine. Is there a way to hide the referrer? Zach
Yes... i believe it can be done with javascript navigation as opposed to clicking on a hyperlink. For instance, <a href="#"> with an onclick function that does a window.location = "http://www.newsite.com"; should do the trick, however this would only work for people who enable javascript. The other alternative is to use a php redirection script. I cant remember exactly how now, but if you google for something like that I am sure you can find it.
It depends on how sneaky you want to be. Simply having a throw-away domain that cannot be traced back to you is the launch-pad to use. Every time you want to link to a site that you want to leave no referer information about your's. You simply place a link on your site to a page at your thow-away domain. That page then can automatically redirect to the target site via a multitude of ways. A template page with a meta refresh is ideal. The target site will see the redirecting site as the referer. You can bounce through as many throw-away domains as you wish. Leaving a trail of several domains before ending up at the target site. Another alternative is to use another sites serverside redirecting php script. Simply replace a scrapers sites existing redirect directives. You can bounce from your website to the target what will seem directly but in actual fact, the php redirect will go through a scraper site instead. Leaving the scraper site as the referer. Not possible to trace you. Even if a crawler like googlebot harvests the redirect link on your page, the actual script is unlikely to leave a residue in google's index relating to your site. Making it very difficult to trace such a link and referer. Good luck. Please don't point a link to my site like that or any legitimate website.
Code <a href="#" onclick="javascript:window.location='http://newsite.com'">Newsite</a> does not hide referring site completely. No referer with IE browser, but Firefox passes it. Why not to use some redirection service such as www.tinyurl.com?
alterego85 Check out the below link. Look at it real good. It is a link that is placed here but will give the referer as dwinfoserver. The header will also be displaying dwinfoserver. With no trace that you clicked it from here. Efficient, highly effective way of using another site to link out from your site without being detected. http://www.dwinfoserver.com//directory/links/jump.php?sid=306051&url=http%3A%2F%2Fforums.digitalpoint.com If you click it, it is actually a link that you will use that is powered by dwinfoserver. A notorious scraper site that has by now become self governing with and with artificial inteligence. Not possible to contact a human there because none exist. And google loves this kind of linking. It bolsters up the database as it harvests them. If you are worried about pagerank leakage from your site while linking out. Use the above. Change forums.digitalpoint.com to any other site such as; http://www.dwinfoserver.com//directory/links/jump.php?sid=306051&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com or http://www.dwinfoserver.com//directory/links/jump.php?sid=306051&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com yahoo, google and this forums logs will show the referer as dwinfoserver. And you can use many other websites redirecting ability to save yourself being detected. And once google harvests the link, you are still in control. You point the link to a questionable website or to wherever you want. You become the sole controller of the link google places in it's index. Don't point this kind of link to my site please, nor to any other legitimate website. Point it to search engines like google. Google loves these kind of links. And don't use this trick to fool reciprocal linking that you might do to make a one way link to you out of a reciprocal. Google says that it is impossible to harm another website. The above method can indeed harm a website and it is actually google that is responsible for any damage to ranking through duplicate content. Because ultimately, that is exactly what the above links will do to the target site.
altereogo, Addendum, I forgot. It is also the ultimate way to make sure no trace exists that it started from your website. Nearly all other methods contain an element of risk since the link will launch from your site. The above trick also launches from your site. It's visible anchor text can be anything you want. But it only gets it's destination target information from serverside at dwinfoserver. And the header cannot have any other information other than dwinfoserver being the referer at the target site. Try the below code in your editor. Simply alter the target URL and anchor to create as many as you wish. <a href="http://www.dwinfoserver.com//directory/links/jump.php?sid=309057&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com">Yahoo</a> This obviates any risk of detection.
Thanks guys What I really want is to scrap the referrer alltogether. I do not want to change it.. Zach
Somehting like this? : make a index.html --> <html> <head> <title>ENTER WEBSITE TITLE HERE</title> </head> <frameset rows="*"> <frame name=" " src="http://www. ENTER URL HERE /"> </frameset> <noframes> <body> </body> </noframes> </html>