How to hide the Voluum data string? (11)
I want to clean up my url and not to have all that
Heres an example i want to get rid of(in RED):
mysite.com/?voluumdata=vid..00000007-1a3f-495b-8000-000000000000__vpid..3b846000-812d-11e4-8fef-74595e7b838a__caid..fe3db202-e353-47b3-8bff-17eb6d03e69a__lid..49f990ff-f8f3-4e02-bcbe-7079af2beb7b__rt..R__oid1..454b9c6d-241f-40cb-9605-3477e7e1509e__oid2..272bd1da-386d-40be-9cb3-d0b3edcd528a__var1..%7Bage%7D__var2..%7Bsex%7D&age ={age}&sex={sex}
I browsed the forum but couldnt find anything related to that.
If you remove everything in red then how is
Old Link
http://trk.mysite.com/734325f91-77cf...y%&guid=%guid%
New Link: http://track.mysite.com/734325f91-77...0-a9b907339f81
Is this what you want? This will work and I use these kind of links all the time. Just make sure you don't need to pass any tokens from your traffic source.....
No that was not what i meant 
the link i showed in the first post, as an example, is the the link which is seen by the customer in my landing page URL BOX.
I need to clean the URL not my offer tracking link.
This was the answer i got from
To clean up your landing page URL you will need to integrate a script within your landing page to hide the
Unfortunately, as I'm not a programmer myself I don't have an example of this code for reference.
However, It should be available on one of the affiliate forums such as STM or AffPlaybook.
Since you can't force the referrer to be something specific, you can instead reload the page without any query string data and hope cookies work and send you through fine - something which you would of course test first.
Just add a meta-refresh code in the <head> that refreshes to the page location (i.e. without query string data) and see what happens.
And of course, the critical question: why do you want to remove it?
why do you want to remove it?
when the page URL is www.mysite.com vs http://www.mysite.com/?voluumdata=vi...f-17eb6d03e69a - the first one is more trustworthy and easier to share to the friends. OR AM I OVERTHINKING?
It requires heavy server side coding with PHP or ASP. Seeing few people already doing it.
OR AM I OVERTHINKING?
yeah, I think so.
The people savy enough to look to the URL for query strings are probably not your customers anyway.
Your time is better spent elsewhere, IMO
With the amount of SaaS, cloud-based platforms and 'new generation' services out there that people use, long bits of data in a URL are really of little detriment now.
This is the URL I see when I go to log into Hotmail/Outlook...
Server side PHP solution:
Capture the GET variables into an array and add that array to SERVER['GET']. Then send out a refresh header to your final site destination. You'll have the details of the transaction associated with the session without having to pass ugly data in the URL itself.
Thanks for all the responses. Since i am a total newby in tracking I finally realized that tracking with
So for conclusion, i need to find a tracking solution which is not referrer based, that can track visitors from paid traffic, different traffic sources, and wont break the links on my landing page when the visitor comes back directly or from google search. I was thinking about Thrive, or.... any suggestions?
Most performance click tracking solutions are based on sending clicks initially through a campaign URL controlled by the tracking system, and things from then on are redirect based.
This is the best way from a performance standpoint.
What you need is something that uses on-page tracking to start the process. I believe the current iteration of Prosper202 offers this.
Otherwise I would recommend Clicky. They also have a robust API for if you want to do more advanced things. It's not as easy for tracking affiliate campaigns as you need to learn your way around things - you don't create campaigns, add landers, traffic sources, etc. It's more comparable to Google Analytics.
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