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PixelK - The most powerful tracking system (28)

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Hello, stackers, It's Sean here, I'd like to introduce the most powerful tracking system - PixelK! It’s not just another tracking software.

I’m NOT going tell you some common functionality such as:
1) tokens/conversions/geo tracking
2) group by report
3) conversion post back
4) 3rd party post back
5) robots filter
6) day/week parting
......etc
PixelK equipped with all of them, I’m going to show you some unique features that no other tracking software have:

1. Landing page anti-spy.
With more and more spy service in the industry, you guys really need to think about how to protect your landing page. With PixelK’s LP anti-spy feature, it’s hard to spy your landing page, even someone already know your landing page url, he/she can only see a 404 page. The only way to view your landing page is to click your campaign tracking link.

2. Table separation and fully cached.
PixelK is very fast, no matter how many campaigns you have, it’s fast as it be at the first time. Because we take advantage of table separation technology and all front-end requests are fully cached, you can keep unlimited campaigns, there is no need delete old campaigns any more. Reset a campaign is also lightning fast.

3. One-click installation option. We offer a one-click installation option, which allows you install all server softwares and PixelK by one single command. All your need to do is run provided command, then PHP, MySQL, Nginx, PixelK and all other necessary items will be compiled and optimized automatically. Never waste your time on server tech stuff. Manual installation is also available.



4. Multivariate testing(MVT).
Multivariate testing has been proven to be a powerful way to optimize your landing page, with PixelK, it’s easy to do it, you can test unlimited variables at a time, PixelK will generate a detailed report for each variable combination. Maximum your ROI.


5. Import multiple campaigns from Excel.
You need to add many campaigns? Simple, just put them in the Excel, and import into PixelK.


6. Landing page load times detection.
No tools or service can detect your landing page load times accurately because of server limitation. The best way to do this is detect it in the client side and report it to server. With PixelK, you are able to know how fast your landing page loaded.


7. Landing page grabber.
You found a great landing page, then what? You may need to "righ click", "save as" and modify css/js/img paths accordingly, right? With PixelK, you don’t need to do these work anymore, just enter the landing page url, the LP grabber will download every elements of LP, correct paths and pack them as a zip file, all you need to do is download it! Even images defined in the css file will be grabbed. You can grab unlimited LPs at a time.

8. Campaign trends.
Just like google trends, the campaign trends will display detailed campaign data in the last 30 days, and show them as a charts.


9. Traffic separator.
PixelK provides you with the ability send traffics to different place based on your rules. ISP, IP, Country, User agent...etc. you name it, we support it

10. Statistics significance calculator.
When you are not sure which keyword/placement/ads...is bad, statistics significance can make decision for you, PixelK equipped with a Statistics significance calculator, it’s easy to find the bad fundamentals.

Well, there are many other features such as unique visitors, group by report filter, star metrics, split cost into different keywords/placements...etc. More detailed information can be found here: http://www.pixelk.com/features.html


The price is $49/month, with a 30 days no questions asked money back guarantee, which means every one can try PixelK for 30 days for free.

PixelK is a self-hosted system, but it's really easy to get it ready, take a few minutes to try us, find how PixelK can help your campaign, once you have it, you will love it, it’s great, powerful and easy to use. If you are not satisfied with it, just send a email to us at support@pixelk.com or create a support ticket within your account, you will get full refund without any questions asked.

If you have any questions, feel free to reply !


So who are we?
Sorry about missing self introductions, I know that a tracker is the most critical tool for you guys, just like a good sword to warrior. PixelK should be your sword.

I’m Sean Lee, who are in a media buying team with 3 software engineers, myself included, we are in Internet marketing for over 2 years, to be honest, I really don’t want to reinvent the wheel since there are many good trackers in the industry, we have tried all major tracking softwares except Thrive, not to slam Tom’s product, I tried a few times but always failed to install because of session tests and ajax tests, so I leaved, apart from this, it looks good

Then we found that all trackers didn’t do some optimization and we can’t do what we want to do with them, such as MVT, unique visitors…etc, all trackers store click infos into one single datatable, which force us to clean clicks to speed up tracker, but a basic data-table separation can easily solve this, each campaign store it’s click infos into separated data-table, that’s also what we’ve added to PixelK. So we decide to develop a tracker for our use. The initial development take half a year to finish, then we continuously add features to help us analyze the data, now we use PixelK everyday and like it, hope you will like it too, nice to meet all you guys


FAQ
1. how does LP anti-spy work?
Every time a visitor click your campaign tracking link, pixelk will generate a unique key based on his/her info such as user agent, device, ip...etc, when redirect to LP, pixelk will check the key, if it's not correct, then pixelk will display a "fake 404 error page". You can also turn off this easily.

2. will LP anti-spy slow down the tracking?
No, the LP anti-spy have zero impact on tracking

3. Can I host LPs on different server/domain?
Yes, you can. You can't do this at first, but after receiving features requests from our customers, we add a cookie based tracking, which allows you to do this.

4. Can I rotate multiple offer in the same spot?
after receiving feature requests from our valued customers, we've add this features now, you can rotate like this:
Link A: rotate between offer A1, offer A2, Offer A3....
Link B: rotate between offer B1, offer B2, Offer B3....

5. Can I pass tokens to offer?
Yes, you can pass many custom tokens to offer, check the pic below:


6. What's statistics significance algorithm?
It come from here: http://abtester.com/calculator/

7. Will you continuously improve it?
Yes, not only because some of you guys are using it, but also we are using it too.

8. Will you add a mobile version?
Yes, we are working on it currently.

29 July 2015 Update:
we are working hard on PixelK 2.0, many functionality added, some big changes include:

1. online documentation launched.
feel free to check it out: http://www.pixelk.com/documentation/
and release notes are also moved to here: http://www.pixelk.com/documentation/...tion%2Frelnote

2. add three campaign type: path, option and funnels

3. save offer and lps for later use so you can choose it from list when creating campaign

4. add landing page domain rotation, you can ratote your landing page through multiple domain now.

5. add server-to-server tracking which allow you host landing page on a different server as tracker, and you can also protect your lp by anti-spy. so we have three tracking option now, detailed comparison can be found here:
http://www.pixelk.com/documentation/...mp-integration

6. Add traffic separator based on traffic source token,so you can send clicks to different place based on token values.

7. many other features like qrcode for campaign tracking link so you can test it on mobile, add network detection by tracking domain...etc, please check the release notes

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More and more trackers on station. Good to see all the diversity

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oh looks cool and good price
will check out for sure

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Yeah, diversity is good

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thanks, try us and you will love it

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yah looks good

but why you are developing new and new tracking solutions when this market is saturated?

do you have option to export import campaigns from other tracking solutions - it is not easy to switch to new tracking when you have 100s of running campaigns?

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Thanks for your question, we developed PixelK because:
1. we hate our LPs get stolen( so we create LP anti-spy)
2. we hate clean database or delete old campaigns every week when running large traffic( so we use database separation technology)
3. we love multivariate testing but no other tracking system can provide this
4. we can't know exactly whether our LPs loading fast or slow, but no others can provide this info to us and we have to buy some other monitor service(so we create LP load times detection)
5. we love to boost performance by taking advantage of cache, so the front-end user is redirect faster, but we don't know whether other tracker is using cache or not
6. we want "star" placements/ads/keywords..so we can easily analyze in the future but no other tracker have this feature...

and there are many other reasons....

we are marketers too, we just found no tracker can provide some feature we need, so we create PixelK for our campaigns, and believe me, we are not going to build a tracker and sell it in the beginning... PixelK is growing, although it's not perfect, we still want other marketer fellows can feel a better tracking software.

PixelK have option to import campaigns from excel, but you need put data in as required in the import templates. You can try us by running one or two campaign on PixelK, if you are not satisfied with it, there are 30 days no questions asked money back guarantee for you. Once you love it, I think it's worthy to switch to us.

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well you guys really need to add multi path flow (multiple steps) on one lander without binding offers to lp.

step 1 (offer A + offer B ) on LP1
step 2 (offer C + offer D ) on LP1

this is currently not possible

EDIT: with version 1.3 you can now add tags to offers like "step1" "step2" and everything with same tag will be rotated great

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Thanks atom64, you can use "Path" campaign and hard-select offer to do this currently, just set same Landing page URL in different path level if you would like set all steps in one LP. More details can found in User Guide.

We will take this as feature requests and add it if it passed our review

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Is this tracker roundcube encrypted?

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Few years ago only 1 new tracker appeared/year now it's like every 1 or 2 months I see a new one.

That's a good sign that this market is maturing. Looks good.

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huh...I'm little confused, are you talking about ioncube encrypted?

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Yeah, that's because more and more engineers joined this industry

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Yes sorry, I meant ionCube!

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I suggest you introduce youself/yourselves ... who are you guys, what is your background, how long have you been in the industry, who are some people you have worked with?

As you can imagine, selecting a tracker is a mission critical decision for affiliates, and I think it would be easier to convince people to give it a go if they could actually see the people behind the product. That is pretty much what all the other major service providers in the industry do.

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Yes, it is ioncube encrypted

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Wow, thank you very much for your suggestion, cmdeal. I'm sorry for missing the introduction about ourselves. The thread will be updated with detailed infos in a few days.

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PixelK 1.3 is released with many features added: http://www.pixelk.com/relnotes.html?v=1.3#v1_3

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Hi cmdeal, I listen your suggestion, thank you once more for this

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Could this be used by an offer platform or network to track affiliate traffic to the programs offers as well?

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Hi, we don't support this way of tracking

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Guys there is a slight issue I noticed with the installation of the tracker v 2.0.1. I have not tested if it will work without the geoip.so extension enabled as this has been suggested for this error on multiple forums:

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare geoip_country_code_by_name() in www_root/lib/geo/geoip.inc on line 1593

This results into blank screen when install.php gets access. Now this is not caused because of APC or other caching engines. The problem is in the above file and can be resolved if you edit the geoip.inc file:

( modify this )

function geoip_country_code_by_name($gi, $name) {
...
}

function geoip_country_name_by_name($gi, $name) {
...
}

( to )

if (!function_exists('geoip_country_code_by_name')) {
function geoip_country_code_by_name($gi, $name) {
...
}
}

if (!function_exists('geoip_country_name_by_name')) {
function geoip_country_name_by_name($gi, $name) {
...
}
}

and problem is solved. I hope this will not cause some functionality issues with the app. I would like to ask if you have time to update us on this and if the above modification will cause any problems provide different solution.

Another thing which I notices and did not like ( not saying what I am suggesting should be followed ) is that currently you require root or superuser to be used during the install. Despite the fact that it installs with "root" and than you may switch with user that has full access to the DB in use for the application still you have to switch to normal user.

Is there any specific requirement of the app ( I have not reviewed the code in details and some of it is encrypted so I may not even be able to check it all ) which needs "root" MySQL access or you just want to create the DB if it does not exist during the install?"

Just a few things I wanted to bring to your attention .

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Thanks for the your interests in PixelK, the modification won't cause any other problem, so please fee free to do it, I apologize for the issue, the functions is conflict with geoip extension. will fix it as soon as possible, your solution is fine.

Yes PixelK do require a mysql root user or superuser who must have permission to create databse, because pixelk need to create a database and datatable to do table separation, everytime you create a campaign, pixelk will also create a table, which is used to store click/conversion data, so you don't need to delete old campaigns any more, new campaign is always lightning fast as it use a brand new datatable, the system create 200 tables with a database, so if you have 600 campaigns, pixelk will create 3 databases, each one have 200 tables.

It's nice to talk with you about this, and I really appreciate your brilliant suggestion, will definitely add your suggestion in the next version, so mysql super user will not be required anymore.

Sean

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A few improvements want to let you guys know.

1. We've optimized our one-click installation option, zend opcache will be installed and all your php script will be cached into opcode, which will speed up performance significantly. A GeoIP modules for Nginx will also be compiled and installaed so Geo information will be detected by nginx, which is much faster than php detection.

2. Ability to detect mobile brand, model, resolution.

3. compatible with Nginx geoip module, apache geoip module and PHP geoip extension.

We are working on redirection based on mobile device information and day/week parting, I'm sure you guys will find it useful.

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ah... same post, closed

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Hi, I'm new to tracking. Would I have to pay for a server separately to use pixelk? Thanks

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How does PixkeK compare to FunnelFlux?

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Is this still being updated? Any reviews? I'm interested in running a self hosted tracker for some campaigns.

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