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  • #608445
    gbp
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    We have a VB forum and use joomla for our cms on the rest of the site. My question is:

    A lot of our members link to us from thier own blogs, websites, ect…. But when they link to us, they use thier member referral link.

    ex. hxxp://www.MySite.com/forums/index.php?referrerid=2144

    Is there a way to direct all of these to xxwww.MySite.com to absorb the back link juice? However When I forward them, it should still keep the linker’s credit for the referral if they create a forum account.

    8^)

    #766138
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I’ll take a stab at this since no one else has yet… maybe this will give you a start for looking into it, anyway.

    You could use IP delivery cloaking and use a 302 redirect if it matters enough to you.

    I’m not sure how you would keep the “linker’s credit” since I don’t really know what that means, but I suspect there’s a way. If the “linker’s credit” is based on hits, they’ll just be credited with non-bot hits. However that works with joomla and vb, I’m sure it can be done by a competent programmer.

    Cloaking may or may not be worth the trouble for you. (it’s trouble with upkeep and potential loss, I imagine.)

    #766151
    gbp
    Member

    Thanks for helping out! I am not familiar with cloaking. I will have to do some research. I would imagine there is a cookie for keeping the referral credit, but I wasn’t sure if the cookie would still install if the visitor was redirected to my homepage instead of landing on the linked page of xxxhttp://www.roundersradio.com/forums/index.php?referrerid=2144

    I would like referrer #2144 to keep credit for sending us a new member.

    #766153
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I do something similar in reverse on one site using code like this:

    [PHP]RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*) index.php?p=$1&r=$2&n=$3[/PHP]

    …in htaccess

    So someone linking to htp://www.mysite.com/a/b/c/ would be fine but it will actually call index.php?p=a&r=b&n=c (in this example) which means you can retain your credit. But of course, ppl will need to be told to link to /a/b/c

    If you want to use the existing links you could reverse engineer that however you will have to know how to transform the directory /a/b/c to log their referer ID

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