Normally your dreamhost referral url is something like www .dreamhost.com/r.cgi?000000 For instance, 456bereastreet is a hugely popular site that generates a LOT of income from DreamHost referrals. After reading the article Multiply Your DreamHost Referrals, 456bereast updated their link to www .456bereastreet.com/dreamhost/ Similarly my link is now www .askapache.com/dreamhost/ Whats the benefit? Well, when users hover the cursor over a link, if it points to the same domain it looks much more trustworthy, and the clickthroughs skyrocket, I'm talking 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,800% increase in the first month of implementing the new link. Another benefit of using this method is that you can fine-tune exactly the type of level of plan and automatically insert your promo code! It eliminates clicks in the tunnel that goes from your dreamhost link to clicking buy now. HOW? htaccess and php RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^/?dream/?$ /cgi-bin/dream.php [NC,L] Code (markup): <?php $promo='askapache'; $plan='3'; $refid='211825'; $site='http://www.dreamhost.com/redir.cgi?ad=rewards|'.$refid; header("Referer: $site&promo=$promo"); header("Location: $site&url=signup?plan=$plan&promo=$promo"); header("Refresh: 0; URL=$site&url=signup?plan=$plan&promo=$promo"); exit; ?> Code (markup):