I don't run any campaigns, and I rarely do any kind of marketing. I originally wrote kblinker for a client, she simply wanted to be able to have a database driven list of links.
Some of the features as it pertains to the linking/redirecting. There's four methods of redirects.
Straight thru: which is basically done with PHP sending a 301 header to the browser then telling it the location of the target. For the most part I don't think theres much ways to improve this, except maybe change to 302 temporary, or give users the option of 301 or 302, what you think?
Double Meta (Referer scrubbing): Technically this is not done correctly in the sense of what a double meta is supposed to do. Right now a redirect link would load up html, which would hava meta refresh to itself, then that would have a meta refresh to the target url.
URL hiding to the user: Basically loads up html with the target destination in a frame, so that the address bar remains the same.
Stealth Redirect: Done by loading html which then triggers a javascript window.location redirect. To the best of my knowledge this is about the equivalent of a user typing in the target url directly.
Far as the block/change features I mainly just got three methods
Geo-targeting based: IF visitor doesn't match the primary country, changes the target to a different link if default or an alternate country is provided. Not sure how I can make it more helpful.
IP based redirect: matches partial and full IPs to the list, meaning if you're trying to redirect Google Adwords (ie: 66.249.85.*) or Yahoo Search Marketing (74.6.156.*), you could simply type in "66.249.85. 75.6.156" into the box, then provide it with an alternate url for it to goto.
Referer redirect, similar situation, for example you could enter intern.facebook.com into the box, and it would redirect anyone clicking on your url from the facebook review section, and change the target based on that fact.
And the only other helpful feature I can recall at the moment, is anything you add onto the redirect url, such as mydomain.com/?id=redirect_code&foo=f00 , if the target was google.com it would become google.com/?foo=f00.
Anything additional you think would be helpful to an affiliate marketer in terms of redirect method, or block/redirect criteria? As I said, I don't run campaigns so I don't always think of all the situations where someone might need to redirect.
Some of the features as it pertains to the linking/redirecting. There's four methods of redirects.
Straight thru: which is basically done with PHP sending a 301 header to the browser then telling it the location of the target. For the most part I don't think theres much ways to improve this, except maybe change to 302 temporary, or give users the option of 301 or 302, what you think?
Double Meta (Referer scrubbing): Technically this is not done correctly in the sense of what a double meta is supposed to do. Right now a redirect link would load up html, which would hava meta refresh to itself, then that would have a meta refresh to the target url.
URL hiding to the user: Basically loads up html with the target destination in a frame, so that the address bar remains the same.
Stealth Redirect: Done by loading html which then triggers a javascript window.location redirect. To the best of my knowledge this is about the equivalent of a user typing in the target url directly.
Far as the block/change features I mainly just got three methods
Geo-targeting based: IF visitor doesn't match the primary country, changes the target to a different link if default or an alternate country is provided. Not sure how I can make it more helpful.
IP based redirect: matches partial and full IPs to the list, meaning if you're trying to redirect Google Adwords (ie: 66.249.85.*) or Yahoo Search Marketing (74.6.156.*), you could simply type in "66.249.85. 75.6.156" into the box, then provide it with an alternate url for it to goto.
Referer redirect, similar situation, for example you could enter intern.facebook.com into the box, and it would redirect anyone clicking on your url from the facebook review section, and change the target based on that fact.
And the only other helpful feature I can recall at the moment, is anything you add onto the redirect url, such as mydomain.com/?id=redirect_code&foo=f00 , if the target was google.com it would become google.com/?foo=f00.
Anything additional you think would be helpful to an affiliate marketer in terms of redirect method, or block/redirect criteria? As I said, I don't run campaigns so I don't always think of all the situations where someone might need to redirect.
