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Newbie Question - Testing Offer Link Tracking (4)

02-13-2015 10:46 AM #1 caurmen (Administrator)

Hmm, that's rather mysterious: you appear to have done everything right from what I can see.

Can you show us the network click report for that exact click that you have in the Chrome dev console (subid W2VJS2 etc etc) ? The format of S1 there is very different to the s1 format in the aff network click report you're showing - I'm wondering if there's a formatting issue going on.

02-14-2015 09:31 AM #2 faithgedi (Member)

@caurmen - Many thanks for your help. You make 1 point that lead me to realise that the s1 format in Chrome is different from s1 format in the Affiliate network.

I try to look for that particular click in Chrome console in my aff network click report and I can't seem to find it.
I did a refresh and try different ways to get the fresh data in the click report and no result show that click as well.

So, I try 3 offers and test the links and most of them shows inconsistency with 1 offer showing s1 & s5 info and another one offer showing s1, s2 & s5 info.
Only the 3rd offer (redirect offer) with all values are shown.

1) Should I consider that as a network formatting problem or other reason ?
If so, what should I do ? Should I check with my AM ?
2) If my Voluum tracker can show the clicks and the Chrome dev console show all the necessary information passed,
Does it mean that I am good to go for the next step even though aff network click report is not displaying all the info ?

Thanks.

02-21-2015 05:28 PM #3 vorlian (Member)

Why you want to display {campaign.id}&s2={devi ce}&s3={browser}&s4={country}&s5={clickid} on your OFFER LINK ? this needs to be done on your tracking link hxxp://blabla.trackvoluum.com/?324poriweopirwepafr09wa?CampID={campaign.id}&Devi ces={devi ce}&Brow={browser}&COuntry={country}&ClickID={clic kid} and you can see this in your voluuum panel , why would you use s3,s4,....

02-22-2015 06:14 AM #4 faithgedi (Member)

@Volian - Thank you for you comments and appreciate it. You have pointed out some queries that I can learn.

What I learn
First off, there are 2 kinds of links; one is OFFER link and another is TRACKING link.
OFFER link is the link from the Affiliate Network (Neverblue) that is CAKE platform which uses S1 to S5 (GET variables name).
TRACKING link is the link from Tracker (Voluum) that is auto-generated after putting in the OFFER link.

From what I understand, the OFFER url that uses S1-S5 with macro & tokens is to test the information do pass thru in the Affiliate Network
and also display any value you want in the Click Report section of the Affiliate Network.
and vice versa for the TRACKING url for Traffic Source shown in Tracker (Voluum). The whole purpose is to text the links before running any traffic to the offer.

I manage to have the previous issue sorted out by ticking the box "include duplicate click" in the Click Report section in the Affiliate Network.
The click id that is not tally initially pointed out by caurmen has been found by doing the above.

I now realise that the question I post can let me think and learn many more in returns.Thanks

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