how to pass voluum clickid to https url then to offer? (5)

Hello,

a few weeks back... I was struggling with blanking the referrer... now that I found a way to completely blank the referrer... I am struggling how to pass the clickid from Voluum...

here is an example funnel:

traffic source -> Voluum tracker -> landing page -> https (blank the referer) -> offer


here's what I have tried so far:

traffic source -> voluum tracker -> landing page -> HTTPS://myurl.com/redirect (301 redirect to offer with {clickid}) -> offer = doesn't work (No clickid was generated)

traffic source -> voluum tracker -> HTTPS://myurl.com/redirect -> landing page -> offer = doesn't work (CAN'T check the referrer like; converting banners)

traffic source -> HTTPS://myurl.com/redirect -> voluum tracker -> landing page -> offer = doesn't work (CAN'T check the referrer like; converting banners)

To pass the clickid you should just put the {clickid} token as the subid in your affiliate link.

So it would look like this :

http://f5mtrack.com/?a=xxxxxx&c=xxxxx&s2={clickid}

I think you're misunderstanding how Voluum works...

The outgoing link on your lander should be the Voluum tracking link. When you load this link it will try to pull referrer info to get all the tracking information that was passed to your lander URL. I think it falls back to cookies but I wouldn't rely on this.

When you put your redirect before the landing page, you are likely breaking the passing of query string data. If you do this, make your redirect pass all query string data on to the subsequent URL.

When you put your redirect between your traffic source and Voluum it will do nothing really, unless you have done it poorly and you pass no query string data - then your tracking falls to pieces.

Putting your redirect after your lander will work I suppose IF you pass the query string data on to xxx.trackvoluum.com/click. I'm not sure if the referrer check for LP URL is critical, it might be.

It seems to me that the most sensible route is to just use an http trackvoluum.com/click link on your URL, have your offer configured as an https URL for a redirect script, and this then just bounces people to an http affiliate URL and passes all query strings.

Originally Posted by zeno

I think you're misunderstanding how Voluum works...

The outgoing link on your lander should be the Voluum tracking link. When you load this link it will try to pull referrer info to get all the tracking information that was passed to your lander URL. I think it falls back to cookies but I wouldn't rely on this.

When you put your redirect before the landing page, you are likely breaking the passing of query string data. If you do this, make your redirect pass all query string data on to the subsequent URL.

When you put your redirect between your traffic source and Voluum it will do nothing really, unless you have done it poorly and you pass no query string data - then your tracking falls to pieces.

Putting your redirect after your lander will work I suppose IF you pass the query string data on to xxx.trackvoluum.com/click. I'm not sure if the referrer check for LP URL is critical, it might be.

It seems to me that the most sensible route is to just use an http trackvoluum.com/click link on your URL, have your offer configured as an https URL for a redirect script, and this then just bounces people to an http affiliate URL and passes all query strings.

This is working as expected.

You are going from https --> http, the referrer isn't passed, Voluum doesn't pull the query string data --> stuck.

I'm not sure how Voluum's cookies option works or if there even is one now, but the solution is to change your lander CTA URL to https.


EDIT: I just realised it should still work and probably will in some browsers and your problem is likely you not loading the link via your tracking URL? Yeah, do that.