Say I have some links on my page to other sites.
If someone is using Google Analyitcs (and maybe others) they can see where the vists to their site are comming from and see my site listed.

Is it possible to make your site not be listed as a referrer?

Thanks.

Why would you want to do that? You could do it by using a proxy server... but to me that says you have something naughty/illegal to hide!

Yeah it does sound a bit dodgy.

I was thinking of doing it on my portfolio site for freelance webdesign when linking to webpages I have made at work for my portfolio.

I might not want my current work to see my site which they will know about from looking at the referral stats.

Do they know you're a freelancer, and might work for somebody else at some point? Sounds more like a jealous lover than a client.

Besides, they should be glad for any free traffic you send them. Even if it's "low quality" in the sense that it doesn't turn into a sale, they're still getting their name out there.

what was your intension? i don't see the point!

Originally Posted by blue-dreamer

Why would you want to do that? You could do it by using a proxy server... but to me that says you have something naughty/illegal to hide!

How is this possible? can you give me one proxy server?

http://www.publicproxyservers.com/

Originally Posted by Joe3000

I might not want my current work to see my site which they will know about from looking at the referral stats.

Normally clients will be pleased to be mentioned on your site. I know some of mine sometimes make sales from visitors who have found them via my portfolio page

Fair enough.
Just wanted to keep it private.

Well, if you have another domain and programmable server hosting, you could point the links there with a querystring telling this intermediary where to redirect the visitor. That would keep this private for you, but it's not exactly trivial.

Originally Posted by ForrestCroce

but it's not exactly trivial.

To setup?

I would think it through

I thought tinyurl would solve this, but it actually gives the original referrer page when followed.

There are a few services out there that will do it for you. Unfortunately some of them will show sketchy ads in the meantime. This two look clean: http://www.dereferer.org/
http://ultimod.org/

Better yet, take each link to a page with <meta http-equiv="refresh" ...> (which will refresh to the outbound url).
Apparently refresh completely removes all referrer information from the request (at least in FF and IE).
and this way you don't need to rely on any external service.

in google analytics you can use that but i dont know the exact location try to find out.. am just thinking also not to consider some ip address in my site.

Originally Posted by wdwp

I thought tinyurl would solve this, but it actually gives the original referrer page when followed.

A 301 or a 302 redirect will transfer the original referrer. But a meta refresh will not.

Only a "clicked" link will carry a referer

Originally Posted by Ar3d

in google analytics you can use that but i dont know the exact location try to find out.. am just thinking also not to consider some ip address in my site.

And this has what? to do with the thread topic ????

Originally Posted by wdwp

Better yet, take each link to a page with <meta http-equiv="refresh" ...> (which will refresh to the outbound url).
Apparently refresh completely removes all referrer information from the request (at least in FF and IE).
and this way you don't need to rely on any external service.

Thats a good idea. Will give it a test later.

Thanks.