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First Steps in Mobile (7)

01-29-2015 08:35 AM #1 craigm (Veteran Member)

Set up the offer in Voluum straight to the play store,so no tracking link from the network, the actual URL from the playstore, then in Voluum go to:

+add Rule >> Country >> Is not >> UK

Click 'direct linking' and put in the playstore offer.

01-29-2015 10:10 AM #2 caurmen (Administrator)

Congrats on getting started!

Your Smart CPM bid is probably too low, actually - I'd recommend between 1.5x and 2x the payout, so you probably want to be looking at about $0.90 - $1.20 there.

And Craigm's solution should sort out your redirect woes!

01-29-2015 10:38 AM #3 blazeangel94 (Member)

Thanks @craigm and @caurmen

2 things I'm not clear on:
-Can conversions still be tracked even if the offer in Voluum was set straight to the playstore?
-And what does that adding that rule do?

01-29-2015 07:12 PM #4 craigm (Veteran Member)

Originally Posted by blazeangel94

Thanks @craigm and @caurmen

2 things I'm not clear on:
-Can conversions still be tracked even if the offer in Voluum was set straight to the playstore?
-And what does that adding that rule do?

The rule is just for the reviewers to be able to see the offer that you're promoting. You want everyone from your target geo to still go through the aff. link.

That rule will send everyone that's NOT(i.e. decisive) in the UK straight to the play store

01-30-2015 01:27 AM #5 blazeangel94 (Member)

Thanks for the explanation!

I think I found out why Voluum wasn't tracking and clicks or impressions. It was because I didn't put the campaign ID from Voluum into my Decisive campaigns.

01-31-2015 09:29 PM #6 blazeangel94 (Member)

Also, I can't view anything in the Live Reports in decisive, everything just says No data

02-06-2015 11:20 PM #7 blazeangel94 (Member)

Results: All banners had similar CTRs for their own campaigns. I decided to stop the traffic for all camps since I had doubts about the affiliate link actually going to proper offer page( I kind of check it but I asked my friend to open the link in his android and it worked for him, but I couldn't open it on my pc). The good news is I got one conversion. The bad thing is, I have no clue which banner the conversion came from as it was only shown in F5. Decisive and Voluum had no record of having a conversion(I have no idea why it wasn't tracked. Gonna have to go through Zeno's video on tracking again). Also, the offer was paused anyway. So I've been looking around for other offers.

Conversions: 1 lol
Spend of the day: $32.61
Revenue: $0.44
Net profit/loss: -$32.17 (-98.7% ROI)

Current actions: Gonna read some books on advertising. Either Cashvertising or The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing(unless you guys think I should be reading another book?). I feel like my ad game is kinda weak and I could use some guidance from these books.

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