Referrer Link?

Hello

Here's my question:

Let's say that I want to send traffic from my website to DigitalPoint and I don't want to put DigitalPoint's link on my site, but I would want that my site is shown as the traffic source when you look at DigitalPoint's Google Analytics (or any other tracking service).

Would it look something like this?

http://mysitegoeshere.com/ref=?digitalpoint

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How can I manage that?

Edit: I am using WordPress

 

Take a look at PHP header function. Something like this should do what you're looking for:

<?php

if (isset($_GET['ref']) and $_GET['ref'] == 'digitalpoint')
{
    header('Location: URL');
}

PHP:

 

As I don't understand PHP to much.

I should host that file in the public HTML folder?
And, how do I link the post from my blog with that file?

Thanks.

 

Yes, create a new file in your public web folder, usually public_html, with .php extension, say external.php. You'll then be able to access the link through yourdomain.com/external.php?ref=digitalpoint

 

Thanks for the help.

I heard Google doesn't like redirects and that I would have to change the .htaccess file.
This will be ok in the eyes of Google?

 

Not really, however, you may want to add nofollow:

[COLOR=#000000][FONT=monospace]<a href="external.php?ref=digitalpoint" rel="nofollow">Link text</a>[/FONT][/COLOR]

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