Many novice arbitrageurs either do not know how to make a cesspool, or have not heard about it at all. Therefore, it is this topic that we will discuss in this article.
Cloaking is a “dark” traffic distribution method in which one web page is shown for moderation of an advertising site, and another for the end user. Simply put, show the moderators a white page, and the landing page of the offer itself to the target audience.
Trackers
We will consider the most popular cloaking option through the Keitaro tracker , which costs only $25 in the basic configuration and is used by the absolute majority of affiliates.
Of course, we did not mention private self-written sewers, because no one ever fires them at anyone.
The introductory part is over, let's get to the point.
Setting up a stream for moderation
First you need to create a campaign and a stream
We set a name convenient for us and click on the “Create a stream” button.
The Create Stream window will open. In it, we will create an intercepting thread that will lead moderators to a white page. To do this, we set a convenient name so as not to confuse the streams in the future and select the “Intercepting” type.
Now click on the “Scheme” column, check the “Action” box and select the “Do nothing” action.
Next, go to the “Filters” column, check the “OR” box and start adding various filters:
- UserAgent - they are understood as any programs that automatically detect and scan sites. The list of such agents is worth google, as each traffic source has its own.
- IPv6 is an improved Internet access protocol, almost all global network users use IPv4, and IPv6 is used mainly by bots and moderation.
- Proxy - is a kind of intermediary between the target site and the network user. A proxy provides security and anonymity. Normal users don't use these things.
- Bot - we think, here, so, everything is clear)
- Countries - turn off the GEO from which the moderators come. Here already only after collecting statistics. For example, you pour on Russia, and the statistics showed that they came to you from the USA and so on.
After that, click apply.
All! Our stream for moderation dropout is ready, now let's move on to creating a stream for potential customers.
Customizing the stream for the target audience
We create a new thread, I hope you remember how this is done?)
We give a name convenient for ourselves and now select the usual “Stream Type”
Next, go to the “Scheme” section, check the box next to “Direct URL” and insert the final link to your landing / pre-landing.
Now go to the "Filters" section and check the "and" box. Here we need to select the geo for which we need traffic and language. Also, you can explore all the other filters and configure all the necessary ones for yourself. As everyone did here, click apply.
The second stream is complete. If you wish, you can make the 3rd stream, into which the remaining traffic will go. In the third flow, you need to select the “Closing” type, and set the “Do nothing” action. To be honest, we don't see the point in making a third thread, so we don't have to worry about it.
Now you can safely click on the “Create” button
The only thing left to do is to add a white page to be shown to the moderators.
Adding a white page
Open the “Integration” section and select the “Click Client v3” connection method.
After that, new fields will appear in the same window. Now copy the code from the “Landing code” column and paste it into the index.php file of the white page at the very beginning.
Now on the integration page in keitaro we go down and look for kclick_client.php.
Download it and upload it to the hosting with a white file in the same folder that contains the index.php file
Our cloaca is completely ready!
