getting warning from traffic source by accident (6)
Hi 
I submitted a direct link campaign to an offer to test last week, the offer is top revenue on a known affiliate network.
Turns out when you open the offer link on firefox mobile on a different geo, it sometimes redirects to a page that's blocked by google, the red page of doom kinda thing.
Now the traffic source approvel team was in that geo, so they told me about it, and flagged my account. Just a warning nothing serious.
Now I'm trying to think how I can prevent it from happening the next time around, I'm thinking just view the offer page from target geo + approvel team geo from every browser not just default browser.
Anyone can share further advice?
Much appreciated
You can also ask your AM to disable the GEO redirects
Yea this can be a pain indeed.
Asking your Affiliate Network to disable all redirects CAN help, but sometimes the advertiser themselves monetize 'unwanted' clicks like wrong device, geo, etc. So for some of the more sensitive sources what i usually do is the following;
Go to the affiliate network and get hold of a previewlink for the offer you want to run. Set that preview page up as an offer in your tracker, so that your tracker redirects anyone that clicks your trackinglink ends up with 100% certainly on the correct offer landing page. This will ensure no reviewers or anyone actually get redirected to anything suspicious. After that i just make a rule in said campaign to redirect the proper users to the right landing pages and links.
VPN, grab the end URL, set that up in an offer then switch.
advertisers/networks can provide you with a preview link sometimes
Yes set up a passthrough offer.
Zeno goes into detail about it here
(he uses facebook as an example but it applies outside of facebook just as well)
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