Affiliate link cloaker with referer cloaking

Discussion in 'Affiliate Programs' started by karabas, Mar 13, 2008.

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    I was going to promote about it a bit later once website is a bit more refined. I also planned to integrate it into my other website first. However being lazy as I'm Google worked my website up the SERPs faster than I've finished the design. Since I'm already getting traffic - might as well announce it here:
    http://www.cloakreferer.com/ AKA
    http://moveto.ws/

    is an affiliate link and referer cloaker.
    Here's what it does:
    • Makes long urls shorter. It can shorten 4096 character URL to 26 characters including the "http://" prefix. Of these only 9 need to be remebered as only 9 characters hold actual infromation about the redirect
    • You can hide your affiliate links that makes them more trusworthy to customers and less likely to be hijacked by commission stealing malware. It also makes it harder to identify yourself as being an affiliate of some product.
    • You can append human readable tags to make URLs more identifiable. (http://moveto.ws/e97xcwsov?contact-lens)
    • Redirect entire directories. Ex: http://moveto.ws/rru6a3jtj points to http://www.winamp.com. http://moveto.ws/rru6a3jtj/plugins points to http://www.winamp.com/plugins
    • What makes it different from other cloakers is the ability to use special kind of redirect that wipes out referer information. Unfortunately there are some merchants who will figure out where quality thraffic is coming from and then either replicate your PPC campaign or even copy your website to get the commission for themselves. If user if redirected via www.cloakreferer.com merchant doesn't see any information about user's origin (query keyword, referring website etc)
    • Another nice feature is that www.cloakreferer.com exposes web API so you can integrate link generation into your web application or generate many redirects with little effort.

    Feel free comment either in this thread or on the website.
     
    karabas, Mar 13, 2008 IP