domain redirect

  • I do article marketing and they do not accept affiliate links, to get around this I bought a cheap domain name and forward it through go daddy. What I want to do is install this domain on my own host and then forward it from there to the affiliate site. The reason for this is that I am getting a lot of hits but have no idea where they are coming from. It is easy to create a site with this domain name and redirect, but can I track where the visitors are coming from using a redirect or forwarding?

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  • Yes, you can do all of that (I do it myself, but not from article marketing).

    Firstly, realize that when an organization (such as an article directory) states “no affiliate links”, that may also imply “no automatic redirects to affiliate links”. It just depends on whether they are forbidding the ugliness of affiliate links, or the practice of article writing for affiliate marketing purposes. You may want to look into that further.

    What I do – and what you may want to do – is get a hosting package, such as at GoDaddy, that allows you to connect in multiple domains to 1 account. You assign a new folder on your server for each domain. Then, you’d place 1 file, index.php or index.html, in that folder, and that file would play the role of your redirect and/or tracking.

    Ok, what to put in the file… If you know any HTML or PHP, you can use meta-refreshes, or a php 301 header redirect, or javascript redirects to send the visitor on their way. As for tracking, you can get a script to track it internally, or if you don’t want to mess with that, then use a 3rd-party click-tracking service, and redirect through that to your ultimate affiliate link destination.

    For example:

    In article resource box: https://www.YourDomain4.com ->
    Your index.php redirect script: -> https://www.ClickTrackerInc.com/?customer=123&dest=789 ->
    Your ClickTracker account: -> https://www.YourMerchant.com/?affiliateID=youridhere ->
    Your Merchant’s tracking: -> https://www.YourMerchant.com/landingpage.php ->

    Come to think of it, in your index.php file, use a 301 redirect to ensure that the referrers are passed to your tracking service.

    I heard a rumor that bidurl.com does some kind of tracking. Sorry, no time to investigate myself, but if it doesn’t, there are tons of other services that do.

    Here’s the code for a 301 redirect in php:

    <?php
$Link = 'https://www.NextDomain.com/cool-stuff.html' ;
header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently') ;
header('Location: ' . $Link) ;
exit();
?>

    Hope that helps!

    -WCC

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