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...the right section for this? A question about referrals

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:16 am
by rubberjohn
i am in the process of developing a site that has a section that emails users a number of links. When they click on one of these links the user will be taken to a holding page on my site, a log is made of the user and what link they have selected and then the link they chose is opened.

in terms of referal status, from the perspective of the target link site, will it look like the user has just linked from my site (i.e. my IP) or will the original user be able to be indentified by their IP #. As I understand it referal systems like this only work with unique IPs, or am i mistaken.

does anyone know of any resourses that explain how internet referals / advertising links work, for example differences between displaying an ad, having a user click the ad OR emailing links to a user - i dont just mean in coding terms how is this possible but also in a business sense


thanks for ur help

rj