I'm an affiliate marketer with essentially no programming experience, but I need a little help and I'm hoping you guys can help me out.
Currently I use a simple PHP redirect so that my advertiser can't see the ref URL of the site I have my ads on. (I assume this accomplishes that?)
<?php
header("Location: DESINATION URL");
exit;
?>
The ad server that I use allows me to target or exclude my ad campaigns to/from any user that has fired a particular pixel (iframe or script). The idea is that with this re-targeting capability, you can target your ad campaigns to people who visited a particular website in the past that you have a pixel on.
So, what I need to do is not only redirect users, but I want to figure out how to simultaneously fire either the iframe or script pixel. Here's the idea. Someone that clicks on one of my ads but doesn't end up making a purchase isn't someone that I want to serve ads to over and over again. Once they click, I want them to no longer be eligible to see one of my ads. The only way to do this is to fire a pixel for that user when they click, so that I can then use this retargeting feature of the ad server I use to exclude those users from my campaigns. Make sense?
User lands on the page pixel fires page redirects to destination URL
Is this possible?