Here is our first post from the Noipfraud labs.
In the labs we experiment and produce useful scripts and tutorials for affiliates.

This first post is about a useful script we wrote a while back: PageLock

It locks down your landing pages so only visitors that came through your traffic source destination link can view the page.

Its free and open source and you don’t need a noipfraud licence to use it.

What does it filter?

With PageLock, visitors will only be allowed to see your real page if:

  • Their signature is valid
  • They have not changed their user agent
  • They have not changed their IP
  • They visit the landing page within the timeout period you set

What do I need?

This script assumes you have a webserver with a recent version of PHP installed. You just need your basic default PHP extensions.

You can run PageLock Redirect Script on the same server/domain as your landing pages, or on a separate server. As long as both can read and process PHP files.

Standard campaign flow

Most affiliates use either a hosted tracker like Voluum, a self hosted tracker like Thrive, or their own custom tracker.

PageLock will work with all of the above trackers. It even works if you don’t have a tracker in your campaign flow.

In general, campaigns have the following standard flow:

PageLock protects the Landing Page by inserting a custom redirect before your tracker and some verification code on your lander.

It looks something like this:

The PageLock script consists of 2 parts:

  • PageLock Redir (redir.php): gets data from visitor, encodes it, and redirects to your tracker URL with the encoded signature appended.
  • PageLock C ...

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