A referer is a piece of information that is carried with by browsers that shows people what website a user originally came from. Referer Guardian is an easy-to-install, easy-to-use WordPress plugin that will enable you to fake this referer and hide the sources of your traffic. It was developed to be a simple, transparent way to protect your campaigns from the prying eyes of advertisers and others that would rather steal your campaigns than pay you.

As the business of internet marketing grows in popularity, so does your need to keep your traffic a secret. You work hard everyday to make money. Why create competitors by letting the companies you spend your time and your money advertising steal your most profitable campaigns?

It happens all the time. An affiliate comes up with a great plan to push traffic and puts it into action. Once the traffic is flowing and money is being made, all of a sudden a new competitor comes into the arena using the exact same techniques and advertisements.

Sure, it is entirely possible that someone just happened to come up with the same idea at the same time, but why risk creating competition for yourself? We carefully designed Referer Guardian to be your first line of defense against campaign theft.

Installing and using Referer Guardian is easy. You simply create a WordPress blog that you want to show up as the referer for your traffic, upload, activate, and create links. It really is that simple. If you're able to use WordPress, you're able to protect your assets with Referer Guardian. There is no need to change any code, the plugin will take care of that for you!

Here is a diagram to help you get a better idea of how Referer Guardian works:

As you can see, you can use Referer Guardian to cloak traffic from any site, even if it doesn't run WordPress! We chose WordPress because it is very easy to setup extremely nice looking sites so creating your "safe" sites and making them look like they could push traffic will be a breeze.

For those of you that are using social media for traffic through sites like Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace, Referer Guardian can be used with most URL shorteners and is a great way to make sure that your user account information is protected.