Recently I’ve been testing out some mobile install stuff and have been running some ddl apk offers (various av offers, mobogenie ect.). Started running and scaling up mobogenie for the last week with a relatively small amount of volume, under a couple thousand instals a day. Recently, after submitting a complaint, non app-install adult dating campaign at a traffic network with my usual tracking domain I got hit with this notification on my campaign:
"Malware report for trackingdomain.com
Domain is marked as suspicious. The ad will remain running and is under investigation.”
Checked my tracking domain in McAfee site advisor and sure enough it has been flagged as having potential security risks.
Is this something that regularly happens to your tracking domains with these ddl offers? What do you high volume install guys do to get around this?
Are you running SSL-enabled i.e. https links?
If not just CNAME whatever domains you want to your tracking domain and move on. Rotate them every week, whatever works.
how does CNAME work with
ie. if my real tracking domain on
i CNAMEd h.trackdomain.com to abcd.voluumtrack.com
h.trackdomain.com gets black listed
do i cname z.newtrackdomain.com to h.trackdomain.com or
do cname z.newtrackdomain.com to abcd.voluumtrack.com?
You would always CNAME something.something.com to abcd.voluumtrack.com.
CNAMEing to a domain that CNAMEs to another is pointless.
Presumably they would blacklist the root domain. So, you would have domain1.com, domain2.com, domain3.com, all CNAMEd to abcd.trackvoluum.com.
When domain1.com gets blacklisted, switch to domain2.com. Rinse repeat.
so do u guys just change tracking domains weekly?
No, it's just an example.
You would change domains when blacklisted, or periodically as a matter of course.
Weekly is far too often.
Changing monthly would be sensible if you are pushing volume and have some reason to change domains.
Yep , the exchanges can blacklist your domain if too many people report it.
If that happens nothing else to do except changing domains if you still want to run there.