Forwarding from cloaked domain

... to mother site. Is this the way?

[new_shoes]

I keep running into one specific question about cloaking:

We run a main site, which has a brand name in our industry and does well financially. We wish to boost the amount of visitors we get by using disposable cloaked domains (no cloaking on main site).

The strategy so far is:

1. Get disposable domain
   
2. Feed keywords to cloaking script
   
3. Generate dynamic cloaked pages which serve
   
   • A. SE specific content to spiders
     
   • B. Forwards human user to main site
     
   
   

The point in question is 3B.

• Is this the "right" way to do it?
  
• Should we not forward, but simply display an "advertisement" for the main site?
  
• If we should forward, what sort of forwarding should we use?

We don't want to build any sort of brand on our disposable domains and only want to handle sales on the main site.

Any pointers would be grately appreciated.

-ns

[volatilegx]

Forwarding (aka redirection) BAD.

LWP GOOD.

Use something like Perl's LWP module [search.cpan.org] or Curl [us4.php.net] to have your cloaking script grab a copy of the page you intend to show human visitors and display it under the URL of the cloaked page. See [webmasterworld.com...] msg #2.

[new_shoes]

Ok, I can do (and understand) the LWP technique, but it still leaves the problem that the visitor will be hanging out on the disposable domain. I want to strengthen the brand of the main site and send the visitors there. Any way around this?

My idea was to forward the user with a faked affiliate id in the url. This way it looks as if its an affiliate program and our reseller is doing the cloaking.

What if I just show a page on the cloaked domain where every link is pointing to the main site - with an affiliate id?

[volatilegx]

> What if I just show a page on the cloaked domain where every link is pointing to the main site - with an affiliate id?

That would be nice, and would have the benefit of tracking the success of the conversions.