How to Redirect Traffic for Cloaking: 4 Steps

How to Redirect Traffic for Cloaking: 4 Steps

If you have a link to an outside website, if you send it through a redirect page, you can see who follows it.

Steps

1. Create folder for your redirect links

2. (php method) in that folder create a subfolder for each link you want to redirect to.

3. in the subfolder put an index.php that contains the following: <php header("Location: http://target-url"); ?>

4. every time someone goes to that link (the yoursite/folder/subfolder one they get redirected to the target url, and you get a hit in your web log file. This is also good for cloaking or hiding or shortening affiliate links.