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MobAff tracking help (3)

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Could someone help me set up MobAff tracking? I have some newbie questions.

I promote MobPartner offers and use Buzzcity for traffic.

What I already did is:

1. I created a basic offer like in this video: I took the affiliate link for the offer from MobPartner (target URL) and appended &subid=[click_id]. Did I do it right?
2. I created a campaign and added Buzzcity as a traffic source.
3. I now have the link (go.mobaff.com) with my Buzzcity ID and hash. I used this link for my Buzzcity campaigns.

I have some questions:

1. Is there a delay with reporting? I noticed that it shows clicks much later than they were generated. I found here: http://docs.buzzcity.net/wiki/Advertiser_Report_API that they update reports every 2 hours. Is that why it shows clicks later?
2. What should I do to track which banners work best? Should I simply put a different name in "creative" each time I create a new banner? Like here:

If I want to track which banners perform best should I use different creative ids for each URL, e.g. use URL with "creative=ad1" for one BuzzCity campaign with one banner and "creative=ad2" for the second campaign with a different banner?
3. What is c4 for? It only shows "[pubid]" in reports.
4. Do I have to change anything in my Buzzcity account? Should I enable clickcode? If so, should it be "standard" or "Clickode for CPA Networks"?
5. How to track BuzzCity channels? When I check "channels" in reports it only shows "Buzzcity". Do I have to manually create ads for each channel and track them using creative ids?

It seems that I managed to install tracking properly (because it shows that there were some clicks and I can check OS, device, etc.) but I can't check which banners generated clicks and I'm not sure if it tracks conversions (MobPartner doesn't show any new conversions). I would appreciate your help.

Update:

I finally figured out some things for myself:
1. There is some kind of delay. It doesn't bother me that much, I was just curious.
2. That was the most important thing. You just need to add "&creative=YOURIDFORTHEAD" at the end and then in reports you'll see your creatives. This means that you need to use different URLs for each Buzzcity campaign like "ad1", "ad2", etc.
3. I still have no idea. It probably doesn't matter.
4. I still don't know. I enabled clickcode just to be sure.
5. I think that the only way to track it is to create separate campaigns for each channel.

I still don't know if I installed everything properly (I didn't have any conversions yet) but hopefully it will work now.

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Tracking banners: Yep, just change the "creative" name. That's the best way to do it.

Well done on figuring it all out! Looks good.

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Thanks caurmen! I still don't have any commissions (I'm waiting for my new ads to be approved) so I'm not sure if it really works but hopefully when I notice a commission in MobPartner it'll also appear in my MobAff reports. They really need to have a better guide for newbies. If I were an experienced marketer I would probably be able to do it quickly, but as a newbie it's very confusing to set everything right.

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