What do I need for this?

[BREWSTERS]

If I'm buying traffic from high traffic domains, the domain owner forwards it to me, and then I want to distribute that traffic to various other sites - anyone know how this can be done and are scripts for this readily available.

Thanks in advance for any input.

 

[Aegean]

When you say "the domain owner forwards it to me", do you mean the domain or the traffic? Its just that's two different things when it comes to distribution.

 

[BREWSTERS]

When you say "the domain owner forwards it to me", do you mean the domain or the traffic? Its just that's two different things when it comes to distribution.

Not sure - whichever way works best. My scenario is that I will be selling traffic to end users. That traffic is from other peoples domains, so somehow the domainer needs to point their traffic (or domain) to me, and then I distribute it to the sites of the end users who are buying the traffic.

 

[alex]

If the domain owner is redirecting the domain to you then you just need them to 301 redirect it to a landing page you specify on your server. That landing page will itself contain a server-side redirect to wherever you want the traffic going. You could then modify the script as necessary to track traffic and determine where traffic is going. Similarly, you could segment traffic by country, browser etc and get an idea of the demographics by the referring domain, thus forwarding traffic to appropriate landing pages.

If you have several incoming domains I would imagine that you would want to track each one individually. For this you could either have a unique landing file for each domain, or append a unique id and track it that way.

From an SEO perspective Google is not going to like the forwarding domain so don't expect it staying indexed. This will therefore only work in the long term for domains that receive natural traffic.

If you apply this principle to links from another site, rather than the whole domain being forwarded, make sure they are nofollow links.

 

[alex]

This is an extremely simplified logic breakdown, but in reality you just need the reditrect to get this to work. Hopefully this will give you an idea of what else is possible...

<?php

/*First of all give each domain a unique id and get them to 301 redirect to this file with the id appended to the url for example http://redirect.yourdomain.co.uk?id=46354765*/

$id = $_GET['id'];

/*This is a very simple version, in reality make sure you check the id value to prevent an injection attack*/

/*check the id in your database, if it exists continue, if it doesn't forward the traffic elsewhere*/

/*select destination domain based on the info in your database and possibly the header info provided*/

/*record traffic log*/
header("Location: $destination");//redirect the traffic
die();

?>

 

[BREWSTERS]

Appreciate that Alex, thanks!