I am using a tracking program to track keywords, landing pages, ads, etc called Prosper 202.
The program is self hosted on one of my domains.
The program cloaks all the above things which is what I want of course, however, according to the
developers it is suppose to only show the domain, which I have the program installed on as the
referring link.
So I ran a few tests but when I checked my “latest visitors” in the cPanel of my hosting, it was
showing blank referrers which I cannot have. There is traffic that I am sending which companies will
look at the referring links and if they see a blank referrer, this could make them uneasy and no
longer want my traffic.
So I need your help/consultation to help me figure out why this is happening. I know this should be
easy to someone that knows a lot about php and redirects as this is what is basically happening. I
am “technical” to some degree but this is beyond me.
The next issue is that there is a about 1% of browsers which are unknown and not recognized that
will “leak” ending up passing the referrer.
My friend told me that I can conditional redirect the traffic based upon the referral via the
htacess file. He said I will have to create a “safe list of browsers” that I can pass on to the
companies. So in essence the file will say “if it’s a browser on the safe list, let it redirect, if
it’s not on the safe list (unknown browser) send it somewhere else.
The other way he told me I could do it is instead of checking if the browser is good or not, we
could check if the referrer is blanked pass it on if not don’t.
He said we could put the redirect before or after prosper. He told me that redirect1.php redirects
to redirect2.php. Redirect 2 will see if it’s blank, if it’s not blank it will kick it back to
redirect 1 to blank it to come back to redirect 2 then pass it. So it’s a conditional redirect. I
have both files for you to make sense of all this. I just need your help in putting this together
and making sure I understand it.
I have the call recorded between my friend and I that you can listen to in order to help you
understand it.
I know that this is not that hard and I feel that I almost have it but I do not want to guess that I
am doing this correctly. I would rather hire you as my “tech” personnel on this.
I am also looking to keeping you for other projects I have going on. Thanks and looking forward to it.