Today I've added in a new feature to WP Traffic Tools that, if enabled, will redirect traffic landing on tag archive pages to a post similar to the tag archive requested instead of showing the archive of tagged posts.
You may ask why I would want to do this.
For some reason Google is creating tag archives on sites that have no posts for those tags. These tag archives pull in keyword targeted traffic but does not serve the traffic any related posts!
In order to solve this issue the same technology used to power our Smart 404 module is used to redirect visitors landing on tag archives (if the option is enable. It comes disabled by default).
It WILL NOT redirect visitors that click on tag archive links. It will only redirect traffic arriving from an external source.
It will not redirect spiders.
So if this is something you're interested in the feature can be found in the âSmart 404â² module of WP Traffic Tools.
So you are looking for a link cloaking plugin? Or maybe you are wondering why people cloak links?
Did you know that some people say they are looking for a cloaking plugin when they really are simply wanting a link masking plugin.
What's the difference between masking and cloaking? It's simple! Masking changes the URL structure and leverages redirect technologies to send the user elsewhere. Like a shortened link! Goog.gl and Bit.ly and T.co for twitter all employ link masking techniques.
So did you think this was considered cloaking? Well the internet is a place where there are many talking heads and many voices that mimic each other. It's a bird sanctuary! To many people Cloaking and Masking are the same thing and they educate people to believe the same, but for others cloaking involves a little more than simply masking the URL structure. Cloaking becomes a practice where the true redirect location is dynamic, and spiders or certain humans are shown one location while other visitors are shown another.
You may be wondering why in the world people would do that, and believe that there is nothing good that could come from such a technique, I thought this too until I was approached by people who wanted to protect their destination from both search engines and from people they are selling for. The world is an imperfect place where justice and good hearted nature are often circumvented by injustice and selfish sentiment. Developers with good intention have been burned by their employer stealing their marketing ideas and dropping them and sometimes not even paying them. And other times developers have to worry about the heartless algorithms of search engines not being favorable to their site if their site is an affiliate-sales effort.
There are more reasons. Often times a reason for cloaking is very unique to circumstance. That's why WP Traffic Tools, an awesomely powerful and variable traffic management plugin, provides a link cloaking module within their link masking module!
In this latest update we can use 1 negative keyword to redirect all traffic that arrives from urls not containing a certain keyword.
For example, if we wanted to redirect all traffic that arrives outside of google and keep google traffic arriving at the original destination we would use â!google' as our keyword:
There are many tools that assist in importing RSS content into WordPress but BlogSenseWP is designed to provide the most comprehensive solution solution online that incorporates the multifaceted requirements of importing RSS content. Here's what our WordPress software suite can do:
Retain the original post date.
Retain the original author, or use the domain name as the author of imported posts.
Schedule posts into the future.
Backdate / Schedule posts into the past.
Autocategorization of content based on keywords detected in RSS titles and descriptions.
Autotagging of content using Yahoo Tag Extraction API
Autotagging of content using a custom list of tags.
Use search and replace features to remove certain elements found in the RSS feed.
Auto save images locally.
Remote publish imported items to blogs that accept XML/RPC and email based publishing protocols.
BlogSenseWP is can be purchased along with a handful of other softwares we provide at a discount cost package deal price. We offer BlogSenseWP as a complementary software over at Hatnohat.com , where our members get access to our entire product line as well as case studies and access to our private marketer and developer community.
You can buy BlogSenseWP individually through this website, or it can be picked up along with our other products over at Hatnohat.com by joining as a member.
In this article a brief demonstration on how to import Youtube video content into a self-hosted WordPress installation using BlogSenseWP .
The main features of Youtube Importing Module
Select whether to search by keywords or by channel name.
Sort results by: relevance, date published, view count, rating.
Use the video publish date or advanced scheduling settings while importing and publishing videos into wordpress.
Control the post template and how & what content is imported and displayed.
Import Youtube video comments as comments.
Use custom object embed codes such as JWL Player . (rather than the default Youtube object embed or iframe code)
Quick video demonstration by the developer:
More information about BlogSenseWP
BlogSenseWp is a Youtube to WordPress software solution for self-hosted WordPress blogs. We also provide automation utilities for Importing CSV files into WordPress and importing RSS into wordpress and importing Amazon items into wordpress.
We aim to provide automation excellence to those looking for automation and autoblogging solutions.
BlogSenseWP is can be purchased along with a handful of other softwares we provide at a discount cost package deal price. We offer BlogSenseWP as a complementary software over at Hatnohat.com , where our members get access to our entire product line as well as case studies and access to our private marketer and developer community.
You can buy BlogSenseWP individually through this website, or it can be picked up along with our other products over at Hatnohat.com by joining as a member.
I’ve recently been working with a client who has a bridged WordPress/Joomla website and is looking for a way to incorporate automation and autoblogging solutions.
This is what he end up saying to me:
Thanks Hudson!
I travel out of town tomorrow for about 10 days, but will surely pick up on this when I get back. I think the discovery below obsoletes the need for tweaking your code in order to run it within WordPress4Joomla:)
An excellent solution for WordPress to Joomla posts via XMLRPC exists, that would make the need for a bridge solution such as WordPress4Joomla simply irrelevant: http://www.joomler.net/documents/141-xmlrpc-for-joomla/943-2011-04-08-19-52-09.html
Since Joomla still doesn’t have a great blogging platform such as WordPress, you might want to Advertise this WordPress 2 Joomla XMLPRC integration solution in your BlogSense sales page. This would help boost the sales of your great plugin within the Joomla Community.
Blogging XMLRPC For Joomla really is the best of both worlds:)
Thanks for all your assistance and your great plugin.
Best of Regards,
Clif
So what we’ve gotten out of this email is that, through XML-RPC remote publishing, the automation tools brought to you through BlogSenseWp can be leveraged to automate a Joomla Blog if you are willing to have an un-indexed WordPress blog power the automation.
SpyderSpanker WordPress Plugin Saves Bandwidth by Blocking Select Spiders…
Hey Fellas,
I just picked up SpyderSpankers plugin to help keep unwanted spiders off my site and and save bandwidth. In the past there was a free plugin that came highly recommended called Chennai Central , but this plugin is no longer supported and did not provide the options the hand select which spiders to approve or not to approve.
Why should I use this WordPress plugin?
In today’s times it’s not uncommon for more spiders to visit your website than humans and this can cause a serious drain on bandwidth.
There are more un-benificial spiders than helpful spiders. Some spiders are probes for private data centers, others can be malicious spiders looking for holes in security.
Those two reasons were enough for me to bite and I’ve already purchased and installed the plugins on most of my sites.
I’ve picked up the plugin and hopefully some of you find this lead helpful and pick up the plugin too. Cheers!
In the mean time here’s a video provided by the developer that demonstrates the capabilities and settings found within the plugins:
Google provides many service & scripts  to website developers via their Google Libraries scripts . Why not provide webmasters with a geo-location script?
Right now webmasters are using an excellent free service provided by GeoPlugin . The service is excellent and GeoPlugin is very liberal with the number of calls they permit an ip to request per hour, but I wonder… What has taken so long for Google to add this service to their Google Libraries?
One Click Lead Capturing: Facebook, Google, and Twitter:
OptinPressor leverages the Facebook API and the Google API to collect the user’s email address, and then forward it to Aweber or whatever list management service you use… they support up to 27 different email services. You can see we are using it on this blog if you look to the right. Feel free to signup! Our newsletter runs weekly and covers aspects of the online development and marketing industry. To setup Optin pressor it takes 10 minutes and I made a video showing you what it looks like and explaining]how to install it:
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 Integratable with these Email Autoresponder Opt-in Services!
(Prices vary according to the state of the dime-sale, but I was able to get it for under 30.00)
I am not sure if the plugin likes the 3rd party page as well as subscribes to the Fan Page or just re-routes the like directly to the FB Fan Page. It would be best if it did both but I’ve not had a chance to confirm.
Why is the concept cool?
Well since this is a news source who’s audience is professional developers and marketers I shouldn’t have to point it out but, still, pointing it out is a labor of love.
Facebook Fan Pages are like email lists. The content you post to a fanpage will be redestributed to all your Facebook subscribers’ newsfeeds where they can like and comment on articles. Fan pages are a great way to interact with your readerbase and pull traffic to your site.
Bonus Features of the Plugin.
The plugin video (posted below) says that you can customize which Fan Page a post’s like button subscribes the user to. This will allow you to target one post’s like to a FB Fan Page while targeting another’s to a different Fan Page. Options like these are good!
How this plugin can help.
It’s deceptive it’s true. It’s most likely against Facebook’s terms of service because in a way, it’s cheating the opt-in funnel standard that Facebook has setup, but still it can be a quick and affective way to build your subscriber list that did not place too much emphasis on Facebook.
Honestly Facebook should provide this option natively in their like button; showing a prompt to opt into a fan page after liking something related to it⦠but they don’t and so this option is a second class solution.
I’ll probably check it out and give it a try to see if my subscriptions increase.
In this latest update we’ve added two new options to the link management setting:
Convert Links to point at Homepage
Convert Links to point at Random Blog Post.
Our full list of options look like this:
Leave links intact.
Strip links out.
Convert links to site search using anchor.
Convert links to tag search using anchor.
Convert links to point to homepage.
Convert links to point to random blog post.
Each setting provides a unique way to handle links contained within the content being imported from a source. BlogSense sources content from a variety of targeted sources (youtube, contentkaboom network, amazon) as well as provides tools to import content from a limitless variety of custom sources (custom source targeting,link-specific content extractions,rss feed extractions).
Occasionally when creating redirect profiles a user will have multiple keyword based profiles that target the entire site. In a case where a post contains keywords that match more than one global profile we will want to be able to decide which redirection has priority. For these rare circumstances we now have a Piority input area for our redirect profiles. Most likely a normal user will never need to edit this setting so it can be left blank. Cheers! Hope you enjoy!
In WP Traffic Tools we have the ability to place ads conditionally in the following locations:
Above a post
In the middle of a post (without interruptingsentences)
Below a post.
In up to 6 different widget locations.
A couple of users have asked to be able to insert & target ads to custom places using a shortcode. Here is a a technique that will help you to do that.
Each of WPTT’s widgets are updated with advertisements using jquery that target div containers that look like this:
The above represents all six potential ad placement widgets. If you have a header or footer area that needs an ad placement, insert one of the empty div containers below and then tell the ad placement profile to target that widget and the div will populate with content on page load.
We also now have the ability to use our keyword monitoring systems and append the discovered keyword associated with the visitor onto the redirect url. For example:
The masked link with keywordtoken is not very pretty, as you may can tell. But it is functional! If you have suggestions on how to make it prettie leave it as a comment below. I’ve some ideas but you might have some better ones and I wait to hear from you.
We can now prevent cookie placements on posts that meet keyword discovery criteria and also contain our designated stop words. For example. All posts that contain the keyword ‘google’ can receive a placement unless the post also contains the keyword ‘yahoo’. Our keyword searches can be extended to content in post as well as keywords discovered in the referring URL.
 Regular Expression based redirects now can be fired as an unblockable popunder profile
Our regular expression based redirection module allows us to conditionally redirect visitors based on pattern matches in the referring URL and the landing page URL. We now have the option to both instantaneously redirect the visitor or enable an unblockable popunder which will fire when a user clicks anywhere on a landing page.
HTML attributes in keyword autolinking
In our Link Management module we have the ability to create masked links and auto-link keywords in our post content to those masked links. We now have the ability to add additional HTML attributes to generated links, such as ids,rels,classes,styles, and more.
In WP Traffic Tools we have the option to differentiate between human and spider visitors with our redirects. This latest updates permits us to redirect spiders while retaining humans on-page.
Random morning deal (even though it’s almost afternoon). If you’re currently on the BlogSense monthly subscription plan, if you like, I’ll upgrade your license to lifetime for $20.00 off the $95.00 price.
Respond to this email with your information and we’ll take care of it sometime today.
Also I’m looking for a partner to do a Link Emperor group buy with me. They’re too expensive for my budget to go in alone right now and I’m not needing an entire package. The service looks very comprehensive and I believe it might be one of the best pay-for-diverse-link-building services in the industry currently. More information on that here .
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Adding this bit of code to your theme’s functions.php file should help nofollow your ‘Previous Entries’ and ‘Next Entries’ pagination links:
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function pagination_add_nofollow($content){return'rel="nofollow"';} add_filter('next_posts_link_attributes','pagnation_add_nofollow'); add_filter('previous_posts_link_attributes','pagnation_add_nofollow');
Originally I was trying to hack WordPress’s next_posts_link and previous_posts_link with a filter. I even tried targeting the next_post_link and get_next_posts_links function but nothing was working for my theme.
So I took a look in the /wp-includes/link-template.php and found out there was a next_posts_link_attributes function that’s meant to accept add-on CSS and REL attributes.
In BlogSense 9.9.8.1 we’ve added a new shortcode that helps BlogSense users tap into the Traffic Kaboom! content network. This API is being called Content Kaboom!
What is Traffic Kaboom? Traffic Kaboom is a large private resource sharing service where users leverage multiple blog networks, article directories, social accounts, and other advanced distribution services to promote user submitted content.
From the words of it’s founder, Jason Potash:
Traffic Kaboom is a hidden traffic source that does not rely exclusively on Google or any other search engine. The concept behind Traffic Kaboom is simple. We provide a syndication service. You click a few buttons, fill in some information⦠and then we âdrip-feedâ and distribute your article & video content to several thousand good quality (human reviewed) sites that our syndication partners have owned since 2006 (that's rightâ¦Â 2006).
Content Kaboom! is the result of an API developed to help maximize the distribution potential of it’s users’ submitted content. Jason Potash was kind enough to approach BlogSense and offer it’s content services to us for free.
Also, from speaking with Jason Potash, he says that 200-300 articles are submitted by their users daily for syndication, the articles are moderated for quality, and the content storage database truncates all content older than 60 days in order to keep the distribution selection fresh… at any given time the content database contains ~17,000 user submitted articles.
Content Kaboom as an article generation shortcode.
BlogSense has never had a reliable article generation shortcode. We’ve tried, but most quality article services have advanced bot protections that required users who wanted to leverage their services to use proxies… and that’s messy. For the most part if we wanted to import articles we’ve had to use the overused WP Robot article shortcode, or BlogSense’s custom source shortcode (which was difficult for some people to use). The Content Kaboom shortcode will become our first stable keyword based article generation tool.
I look at this as a great success for BlogSense users looking to generate content rather than re-syndicate content (BlogSense has many different applications in the realm of automation and we have to look after them all).
We’ve taken the current Cookie placement management module and allowed us to assign multiple URLs to one profile. This can further help with throttling and also provide flexibility for unique situation when URL rotation is in order (such as covering multiple relevant products being reviewed on a single post).
Most people will have no reason to leverage this new feature, but has been requested by multiple users so here it is!
What are you doing today? I wanted to point out something that just inspired me… and it’s mostly because I’ve been struggling on how to go about designing a bait & capture system.
Methinks, that when it’s done right it should be easy to keep the evil eye closed and customer’s heart willing, as long as the product’s appealing.
In BlogSense version 9.9.7.1 we’ve added a new shortcode called [nospin] that works like this: [nospin]content here[/nospin].
This will keep BlogSense from spinning the content between the two parameters. We added this shortcode in to help a user protect wprobot shortcodes and specialized Amazon tokens within the Amazon module.
This shortcode should only be used when it’s absolutely proven that spinning of content is tampering with our templating system. In most modules BlogSense will only spin content imported from a remote source and will not spin custom content added into the postbody template unless it is formated in {spintax|spyntax} and enclosed in shortcodes. The Amazon module is an exception.
I’ve always recommended my software customers to head over to Mike Johnson ‘s department for the education side of site development and I am still happy to do so. I also think it’s very important to be connected with the best professionals & professional networks the industry has to offer.
The Profit.fm team provides an extensive course in authority blog building & profit curation that also offers all their tools complimentary to customers and provides it’s users with a real time stream of profitable (untapped) niche keywords as well as a comprehensive video based course on how to make money using all the resources they provide. They literally promise that you will make money and offer a 60 day money back guarantee.
Noteworthy: In a couple of days they’ll be offering a free trial if you would like to wait to join. If you do join, I recommend going ahead and spending the cash for the lifetime license to avoid monthly payments, but if you are a rapid site builder then the monthly payments may be more appropriate… I don’t know! I just want to let you know what’s going on in the community and tell you I’ll be over there too. Cheers!
We’ve already had the ability to use the following spin APIs with our automation module: The Best Spinner, SpinRewriter, ContentBoss, BlogSense’s Internal Spinner(free).
Now these services has been included in our personal Spin API, which allows BlogSense users to leverage our spinning solutions outside of BlogSense’s automated campaigns. For example, we can take a single article and paste it into our API section, select our service, press spin, and a spun version of that article will be produced.
A MORE ADVANCED USE OF THE BLOGSENSE SPIN API MODULE…
This same manual spin area can be accessed and operated programmatically (like an API service), which allows us to leverage all our 3rd party spin APIs from one script on the fly. This API mode can be accessed in a POST/Response manner using PHP’s CURL. This is for programmers who would like to, for whatever reason, use the BlogSense Spin API for spinning rather than using the 3rd party’s API for spinning.
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The BlogSense Spin API can be accessed from within your BlogSense administration area by navigating to:
In this release we’ve added the ability to use special regular expression rules to define who we redirect and where we redirect them to.
We can set a rule up that redirects ONLY IF the visitor arrives from a website containing certain strings or permalink structures in their referring URL.
We can also further limit the redirection by redirecting ONLY IF the visitor is landing on a page who’s permalink contains a certain strings or a certain permalink structure.
Additionally we can âliftâ parts of each URL, both the landing page and the referring URL, and append them onto our redirect URL.
Here’s a video case study of this new regular expression rule based redirection system:
In what way should we use this system?
I developed this system for a friend who wanted to use it in this way: He wanted to send traffic from one of his junk blogs (Site A) to a webpage that auto-generated Amazon advertisements with related content (Site B), while once again immediately redirecting the traffic to Amazon with related keywords attached so as to generate an Amazon product search page (Site C). He also wanted Site C (Amazon) to think the traffic was coming from Site B rather than Site A. This system was built to accommodate this need which will allow him to funnel traffic from low quality sources and mitigate the risk of his account being terminated.
That’s just one way to use this system.
Another way is to setup rules to redirect all traffic arriving from an old domain to it’s propper location on a new domain. This use would be similiar to something we would normally use the popular (free) Redirection plugin  . Note: The free Redirection Plugin uses Mod Rewrite’s regular expression rules to execute their redirects by adding rules to the .htaccess file, I believe.
Another application would be to redirect all incoming traffic arriving on a certain blog category to the homepage.
Those are just the few applications I can imagine off the top of my head. This system uses PHP’s regular expression engine and will allow for many different kinds of yet unimagined applications.
ContentBoss is one of the oldest content modification services on the market. They provide a monthly rate service and most professionals I’ve talked to say they provide a sturdy rewriting system that helps preserve readability while restructuring the language content enough to make it post-panda worthy.  They say it’s a great service and does it’s job well (better than most others) and yet they also said it was expensive ( at the time they used it ) because users were charged at a high per-spin rate. But it seems that since talking to my collegues ContentBoss has switched from a per-spin payment process to a monthly access system similiar to it’s competitors, which looks to me to be priced similarly as well. That’s a good sign.
This new spin service is now added to BlogSense and verified to work. You can head to the ContentBoss website to order your login credentials.
SpinRewriter A Champion of Youth & Talent.
The other new service offered by BlogSense is SpinRewriter , who I have taken pleasure in monitoring closely over the last month since it’s launch date. If you visit the Hatnohat forums you can see that they keep an active improvement schedule and aspire to be the best in readibility & uniqueness. Without a doubt it will become a major innovator and competitor to ContentBoss and The Best Spinner.
Right now SpinRewriter has a young API, and it’s program director Aaron is currently working with me to ensure that HTML elements are not affected when content is spun. If you are looking to signup now for use with BlogSense then I recommend holding off. But it very well might become the best service selection in the future!
A Most Lazy Conclusion…
If you are interested in content modification then I recommend checking out all three services, comparing prices, reading reviews, and selecting the one you feel most comfortable with. Each will have it’s own advantage, it’s up to you to research and find the one that suits you!
ALSO! If you’re a member or have been a member of either one of these services please feel free to leave us you insight in the commenting area! Cheers!
Today there are many uses for RSS, and countless services that provide RSS feeds. BlogSenseWp is an automation toolkit designed to help WordPress professionals maximize the use of these RSS technologies.
In some cases, RSS feeds can be composed of content from many different sources. A perfect example is an RSS feed generated from someone’s facebook wall posts, or an RSS feed containing public Google+ posts published by a single user. The items in these feeds will contain user comments ass well as attached youtube links, vimeo links, attachment descriptions and more!
In order to make BlogSense even more flexible we have added in the ability to attempt to auto-extract content from remote sources just like the major internet players do. Let’s show an example of how it works:
You probably have already heard about this strategy; that articles are likely to be more valued by Google’s algorithms if the algorithm discovers outgoing links to other sites with well establish repute.
Some colleagues of mine have been toying around with the idea of using automation to auto suggest related authority link from sites like nytimes.com, mashable.com, reuters.com, tumblr, google+, etc. These links would be embedded into insert paragraphs or listed bullet style at the bottom of the post.
Well while we were over there strategizing, a fellow programmer friend, Matt Lewis, was already developing the concept and has now released it in a new plugin for the public.
Matt Lewis is known by his newsletter service as Maximizer Matt and he helped create the PingbackOptmizier that auto generates RSS Feeds of your pingbacks and submits them to aggregation directories to help build backlink power for your backlinks. It is an ingenious little plugin!
So if you are interested in investigating this technique then head over to the WSO page and give it a look.
WPTrafficToolsâ¢Â is most flexible and comprehensive geo-targeting plugin for WordPress!
Our cutting edge traffic monetization modules all have received geo-targeting capabilities. Let’s take a look:
KEYWORD AUTO-LINKING & MASKED LINKS,
Discover the geolocation of visiting traffic and have auto linked keywords determine the best destination link the keyword to that location. For example, say you have an auto-keyword-linking profile setup on the term ‘Dog Collars’ and want to send UK visitors to Amazon.co.uk and US visitors to Amazon.com. We can do this with WPTrafficTools.
Say you have created a masked link for link tracking and geosorting. We can create a link profile with two geo-targeted links and one non geotargeting link and have geo-targeting traffic sent to the appropriate link and have non-matches go to the non-geotargeted link!
GEO REDIRECTING
In WpTrafficTools we can create redirection profiles based on keywords detected in the referring URL. We can use this method to better route organic searches to pages we believe best for our visitors. Let’s take a look at how we can use geotargeting to improve our redirects.
 For visitors that meet our redirection criteria, we can now further check their geo-location to determine the best location to send them. For example, if we have a CPA Offer for the state of Georgia we can route our qualified traffic to the region code GA, while we would redirect our Alabama based traffic to the AL region code. We can also target cities and area codes.
GEOTARGETING OUR ADVERTISEMENT PLACEMENTS
WP Traffic Tools can already place ads based on keywords detected in content, referring urls, by category or category id. Now we can further constraign ad placements to only execute if they meet certain geo-targeting requirements. This can allow us to be extremely targeted with our ad placements. No other WordPress plugin offers such a comprehensive monetization toolset.
GEOTARGETING OUR POPUP PROFILES.
One of the bonus modules of WP Traffic Tools is the popup placement module which incorporates all of our placement technologies, and lets up provide jquery modal popups as well as unblockable popunders and unblockable popups. Our new geolocation system allows us to tailor certain popups depending on visitor location.
We use the ip to location based lookup technology provided by the geoplugin service. We can geotarget by countrycode, regioncode, areacode and by city name. Within the software we provide a list of country codes and regioncodes for setup help.
Wp Traffic Tools is a relatively inexpensive software ($57.00) that provides over $400.00 worth of services.
WP Traffic Tools provides it’s users with the capability to spoof it’s referrer. We use PHP’s CURL technology to modify the useragent, and this effectively modifies the referrer to whatever you would like it to be. If you are looking to game large affiliate providers, though, it would be prudent to think twice. Although we can spoof the useragent we cannot spoof our calling site’s IP address, which would reveal our true referrer through a reverse IP whois lookup (Which I hear many large affiliate companies harness tracking that makes use of the this feature). This system will easily work on most statistic & analytics systems though.
I as a developer do not encourage or discourage spoofing. It is offered because there are situations where affiliate managers attempt to reverse engineer their affiliate’s efforts in order to keep more money in house. This is the only reason this feature is offered.
We also have the ability to rotate spoofed URLs now!