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06-03-2014 05:48 PM #1 nitika (Member)
TrafficJunky - Voluum, Ads & placement tracking

I have campaign in TrafficJunky that has multiple ads and ad placements.

How you track ad & placement conversions with Voluum?

What I need to do?
- Set different campaign for each ad in Voluum and use different campaign links for each ad?
- Does TJ pass that info to Voluum via URL tokens? if so how I should set TJ custom variables at Voluum Traffic source settings?
- Something else?

06-03-2014 08:43 PM #2 cosmeivan ()

You mean you are running a RON camp on the new spot in TJ?

You just need to define some custom vars in Voluum > Traffic Sources > TJ

I suppose you already defined TJ in the traffic sources section.

You will need to change the URL for each banner and spot in TJ.

06-03-2014 09:07 PM #3 nitika (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by cosmeivan View Post
You mean you are running a RON camp on the new spot in TJ?

You just need to define some custom vars in Voluum > Traffic Sources > TJ

I suppose you already defined TJ in the traffic sources section.

You will need to change the URL for each banner and spot in TJ.
Thanks from reply.
Yes it's RON camp on the new spot in TJ.
I have defined TJ in the traffic sources section. But I'm not sure how to set custom vars for TJ?
Could you give example what vars to use? Also should I use some post back URL for TJ?

Do you you mean I could use one camp in Voluum for all banners and manually set vars for each banner?

06-03-2014 09:26 PM #4 cosmeivan ()

Really simple since TJ doesn't use any dynamic tokens (at least for people spending pennies like me).

So, you gotta contact them and ask to see if they provide dynamic tokens for the new RON adspot, so you can track where the users are coming from (which tube).

Then, to go to Voluum, then traffic sources, then click to edit TJ.

In the windows that opens, you will see 10 custom vars (Custom Variable 1, Custom Variable 2, etc)

You should already have at least one custom var for the banners no?

Ad another custom var, for instance in the custom variable 2 fields type in the first field "AdSpot" in the second field in that same row you gotta put the dynamic token if TJ provides you with one, sometime like {tubeID} in the third field put "adspot", without quotation of course.

If they don't provide dynamic tokens, you should at least have a custom var in place for tracking banners.

06-04-2014 05:16 AM #5 zeno (Administrator)

If they don't have dynamic tokens you will have to edit each banner/campaign URL manually...

Ideally change your Voluum traffic source setup to append something like adspot=xxxxx, then when you put that into your TJ campaign/banner, change xxxxx to something appropriate.

06-04-2014 05:34 AM #6 nitika (Member)

Thanks a lot from answers that helped. :-)

06-04-2014 06:27 PM #7 ipetrov (Member)

Hey guys, I have this very same problem.

How do I make TJ track conversion?
As far as I understand, TJ only provides pixel tracking (no postback), Voluum does not support pixels in traffic source setup. And my network does not support pixels also, only postback.
Also I did not find how to import conversions into TJ manually.

Am I missing something here?

06-04-2014 07:40 PM #8 bbrock32 (Administrator)

There is no way to do it with Voluum.

However you can just put the image pixel from TJ into the affiliate network directly and use the postback just to get conversions on Voluum.

06-04-2014 08:04 PM #9 ipetrov (Member)

bbrock32, my network does not support pixels, only postback.

I guess I'll have to make a custom script on my server.

(pardon my php, I'm far from being professional here)
So, it would look like this:

http://mytracking.com/custompostback.php

<?php
call Voluum postback -----> http://Voluum.mytracking.com/postback?cid={subid}&payout={summ_approved}

$randomNumber = time().mt_rand(1000, 9999999);
$currentPage = substr($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], 0, 255);
?>

<html>
<img id="141_cpa_testing" src="https://ads.trafficjunky.net/tj_ads_pt?a=141&member_id=XXXXXX&cb=<?=$randomNumb er ?>&epu=<?=$currentPage ?>&cti=[TRANSACTION_UNIQ_ID]&ctv=[VALUE_OF_THE_TRANSACTION]&ctd=[TRANSACTION_DESCRIPTION]" width="1" height="1" border="0">
</html>

What should I substitute those tokens with?
TRANSACTION_UNIQ_ID ---- voluum subid?
VALUE_OF_THE_TRANSACTION --- ?
TRANSACTION_DESCRIPTION - blank?

Thanks for help. Sry if it has already been covered somewhere.

06-05-2014 01:22 AM #10 zeno (Administrator)

If the network/advertiser supports postbacks only then sadly there is no way to use the image pixel.

1. The postback doesn't retrieve the page content so embedding html in the php script does nothing.
2. The image needs to be downloaded by a user, not a single server, thus the tracking would not work anyway.

Best bet is to just pass subids to Voluum and use it for tracking placement performance and nag at the advertiser to place an image pixel (good luck with that one...)

06-16-2015 11:28 PM #11 adollf (Member)

So there is no easy way to track conversions with Trafficjunky and Voluum?

06-18-2015 07:30 PM #12 trafficjunky (Member)

http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread...unky-on-Voluum

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