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06-19-2014 10:37 PM #1 superboi (Member)
Does DMR really leak? Are there any other alternatives (FAST ONES) to DMR?

Especially mobile?

06-19-2014 10:48 PM #2 karim0028 (Member)

leaks like a bitch...

06-20-2014 01:37 AM #3 superboi (Member)

Hey Karim,

I believe you also use Voluum right?

are you okay with having your landing page leaked?

I tried setting up an SSL... so my landing page becomes https://

but my problem is with {clickid}

I am not able to pass the token from traffic -> Voluum -> https landing page -> offer

what I see the affiliate network stat is {clickid}

06-20-2014 01:43 AM #4 zeno (Administrator)

Quote Originally Posted by superboi View Post
Hey Karim,

I believe you also use Voluum right?

are you okay with having your landing page leaked?

I tried setting up an SSL... so my landing page becomes https://

but my problem is with {clickid}

I am not able to pass the token from traffic -> Voluum -> https landing page -> offer

what I see the affiliate network stat is {clickid}
That sounds like an issue with your Voluum configuration and will have nothing to do with the fact you are using SSL.

In any case: Why do you want to cloak your referrer. Is the performance sacrifice of some tangible benefit to your right now?

06-20-2014 02:51 AM #5 superboi (Member)

Hey Zeno,

I think I have setup my VOLUUM correctly... but I think the site with https is not setup properly to catch the token and pass...

heres what the funnel look like...

traffic -> voluum -> landing page -> https page -> offer

if I do not use https page... the {clickid} works... but if I use it... then it doesn't..

also.. I have added the https page in the offer...

so now the

http://trackxxx.Voluum.com/click (landing page CTA) goes to the https page... from there goes into the offer...

my voluum offer URL looks like this:

https://mydomain.com/campaign123?s1=test1&s2={clickid}

06-20-2014 02:53 AM #6 superboi (Member)

I could also just set my landing page as a https.... but then I have to buy a new cert... and I have a site/domain with https already... I just used it to be the middle page in between the landing page and the offer..

06-20-2014 03:53 AM #7 zeno (Administrator)

I'm not sure how you've set up this 'https' page. Is it your own page with a certain redirect script on it? If you're redirecting through it you wouldn't need https... as the referrer passed to the offer would now be from that site.

Voluum uses the referrer to pass clickID info or fails back to cookies if the referrer is lost. In this case, cookies will not be needed to pass clickID info to the https page but you'd have to sort out passing the clickid to the offer yourself.

Without knowing what this 'https page' is, I can't help further.

In any case, I am still lost as to why you are going through all of this so will reiterate: Is there a particular reason why you want to blank referrers? Just as practice for later?

My approach would be https lander and https outgoing click URL to the offer as normal... adding in pages in between would be a hassle IMO, you'd need to paste link 1 in Voluum, corresponding link 2 in your page, etc.

06-20-2014 05:59 AM #8 superboi (Member)

I'm not sure how you've set up this 'https' page. Is it your own page with a certain redirect script on it? If you're redirecting through it you wouldn't need https... as the referrer passed to the offer would now be from that site.
I have tried to setup like this:

traffic -> Voluum -> lander -> domain1 -> domain2 -> offer

but when I checked the stats in my affiliate network... the domain1 and domain2 did not matter... because the referrer is the lander URL...

I asked you about this in the other thread... (which I cannot find anymore).. but I tried it already.. but the domain1/domain2 did not matter...

i was using this php redirect code in:

domain1:

<?php

header( 'Location: http://www.domain2.com/redirectme.php' ) ;

?>
and domain2:

<?php

header( 'Location: http://offeURL.com' ) ;

?>

Anyway... it is okay... I am gonna go ahead and hire some coder to do this for me...

06-20-2014 07:54 AM #9 zeno (Administrator)

Oh yes I remember - the 302 redirects tend to pass the referrer of the last non-302-redirect http page. This seems so odd to me.

That being the case, if the lander was https it doesn't make sense that it's referrer passes through the 302 redirects.

It's hard to troubleshoot without testing myself, but this is one case where the meta-refresh has an advantage over the 302 redirects acting as passthroughs for the referrer.

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