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Decisive Campaign rejected for redirect lander (5)

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Hi,

I am new at this and I couldn't find a solution to the following problem:

I am running a campaign from Avazu on Decisive, using Voluum as a tracker (and thus Voluum links on Decisive). The campaign is restricted to one Geo, and that Geo is not US. When Decisive test the link, they get redirected to a random lander that does not follow their guidelines. In voluum, the campaign was set to the one Geo only, then I tried setting it Global but that didn't change anything. The strange thing is that out of the 4 campaigns, 3/4 are rejected and one that is running was rejected before. I don't understand this at all at the moment, since there seems to be a completely random process/redirect. Sometimes it adheres to Decisive rules, sometimes it doesn't.

The support guy completely ignored my question if he tried to access it from the restricted Geo (which is also part of the campaign anyway). He just gave me the answer that they don't accept redirects that don't follow their guidelines.

Cheers,
Manu.

LE: Also forgot to mention, I am direct linking to App Store.

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If you're running a campaign in a country, you'll still get some clicks from outside of the geo. Your affiliate network will try to monetize these clicks, as well as clicks that come during server downtime, clicks that come when the offer is capped for the day, etc., so they put in redirects to other offers. Sometimes when testing the link, the traffic source will click on the link and one of those situations will be true, so they'll be redirected to a different offer. Sometimes that offer is an adult offer, an aggressive antivirus, etc.

You can go to the offer page in Avazu, go down to "Fallback settings" and switch all options to an offer of your choice (choose an offer that runs globally, or else the user will be redirected again (I think)). Also don't choose "blank page" because it doesn't work.

But for now, you're probably best off just asking your AM to switch off redirects for you altogether.

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Thanks, the Fallback settings worked, Decisive approved the campaigns. I asked my AM to switch off redirects anyway but that will only happen in a few hours, since it's like middle of the night in China.

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Bookmarked

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It's your responsibility to understand and control geo-redirection in your tracker.

This would all have been very trivial if you did.

Add a second offer (passthrough) that links to the offer lander directly - no affiliate link.

Add a rule to your Voluum campaign that says "If country = correct country" and have that go to the affiliate offer. Now set the default offer to the passthrough. Done - now only users who are from the qualifying country will be sent to an affiliate link and others, e.g. reviewers, will get to the offer page uninhibited.

You absolutely must master this or it will continually cause you problems - even potentially get accounts banned.

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