# Is this possible/good idea?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-possible-good-idea/299929>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [November 12, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-possible-good-idea/299929 "2009-11-12T21:29:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr\_Paul\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@Mr\_Paul\_Jones](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mr_Paul_Jones)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-possible-good-idea/299929/1 "2009-11-12T21:29:03Z")

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I want to encourage my forum users to help in advertising my website. The general idea is they put a link on websites and i reward them for the number of hits through this link.

The basis is they take the link and add their name to the end for example  
[www.example.com/links.php?user=paul](http://www.example.com/links.php?user=paul)

when someone comes to this link they are redirected to the main site and in sql paul gets 1 “click”

There would need to be some control, such as IP filtering to stop someone cheating for example but in all would this be possible? and do you think its a good idea?