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tracking with airpush, voluum, and f5 media (4)

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Hi!

I signed up to airpush, can't figure out how to track stuff. Voluum tracks my two conversions lol but airpush doesn't and I want to track them there as well.

airpush example is:
http://yourclickthrough.com/?click_id=%guid%

so here's my Voluum link I put in airpush (when they click the ad they go here)
http://xxxxx.trackvoluum.com/xxxxxxxx?guid=%guid%

In voluum I redirect them to f5 like this:
http://f5mtrack.com/?a=xxx&c=xxxx&s1=xxxx&s2={clickid}&s3={var2}&s4={g uid}

Postback in f5:
http://xxxx.trackvoluum.com/postback...d=#s4#&s5=#s5#

As you can tell I've got no clue what I'm doing, currently it somehow notifies voluum automatically but still no variables for airpush get passed, none.

airpush setup in voluum:


thanks!
Dvir

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You're mixing and matching tokens, which won't work. Here are some corrections:

Voluum link I put in airpush (when they click the ad they go here)
hxxp://xxxxx.trackvoluum.com/xxxxxxxx?guid=%guid%...

In Voluum I redirect them to f5 like this:
hxxp://f5mtrack.com/?a=xxx&c=xxxx&s1=xxxx&s2={clickid}&s3=...

Postback in f5:
hxxp://xxxx.trackvoluum.com/postback?cid=#s2#&payout=#price#

Postback for traffic source in Voluum
hxxp://api.airpush.com/track/?guid={externalid}

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In case it helps, here's some further detail on why Zeno's corrections will fix the problem you're having:


The guid and the clickid are two different things.


The 'guid' is Airpush's own reference number for the visitor. It's only used when Airpush and Voluum talk to one another.

Airpush sends this to Voluum when the visitor clicks your ad:

guid=%guid%

And at the end, Voluum sends it back to Airpush with the postback:

guid={externalid}


The 'clickid' is Voluum's reference number for the visitor. It's not the same as the guid; it refers to the same visitor though. It's only used when Voluum and f5 talk to one another.

Voluum sends this to f5 with the redirect:

s2={clickid}

And f5 sends it back to Voluum with the postback:

cid=#s2#


You don't use the guid when Voluum's talking with f5, and you don't use the clickid when Voluum's talking with Airpush.

So:

Airpush sends the guid to Voluum, which stores it and creates a matching clickid.
Voluum sends that clickid on to f5 with the redirect.
f5 sends the clickid back to Voluum with the postback.
Voluum recognises that clickid and and sends the matching guid back to Airpush.



I hope that's of some use.

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wow. I now understand tracking. Seriously! For me the main piece was realizing I don't need to involve f5 with airpush guid because it's stores on Voluum.

thank you!!

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