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Problem with geo-redirect on decisive (7)

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I'm using decisive to launch my first campaign on mobile, but I'm having problem.

I've followed caurmen's awesome Appetiser guide then I got rejected because of invalid lander.

As read in other threads, geo-retargeting might be the reason, so I changed my link to direct instead of my affiliate link and it got approved.

After approval, I changed my link back to my affiliate link, it's now gone back to the pending approval status, and I suspect it will get rejected again.

Any advice on how to overcome this?

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I've had the same issue with a Peerfly offer, because it will only point to the right destination if they are browsing from the right geo and on the right device. You could try running the offer from another network, or see if your AM has a way to disable redirections so it sends all traffic through to the offer (because your decisive targeting settings should mean clicks are eligible anyway).

These are, at best, temporary solutions though and a bit of a hassle. Hopefully someone else will know a better way for us

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Hmm...I'm a bit confused about your situation. Can you please clarify?

Are you using a lander or direct-linking from banner to offer?

Are you using a tracker?

So you're pasting your affiliate link directly into Decisive, correct? And what other link were you using before? Your tracker link?



Amy

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Hi Vortex, thanks for the reply.

I'm following the Appetiser, so there is no lander page.

The rejected link is my affliate link e.g.

I got approval if I direct link to the lander, which is a playstore page.

Anyway, I've got approval for the second round. So the process is:

-> Submit ad with links that are not affected by geo-retarget, e.g. the lander itself and get approval
-> Re-submit the same ad with links changed to affiliate link that have got geo-retarget

I think asking AM to disable geo-retaget while ad is being approved should work but I didn't try that.

Either way, this is frustating for me as I'm from GMT +8 timezone and approval from Decisive is middle of the night for me, 12am-5am etc, so I have to go through 2 full days of submission and resubmission.

Now I'm starting to wonder how good Decisive location targeting is if they cannot even verify ads links with geo-trageting turned on.

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So they approve both links, but you need to submit a direct link first? I'm wondering if you could just email them with the ad ID and say "here's the direct link to the lander, you need to be xyz OS in abc geo for the tracking link to redirect correctly".

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Ah! Thanks for the clarification! I get it now.

Campaign approval shouldn't be a 2-step process. Have you contacted their support with this issue?

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you that it's an isolated incident that won't happen regularly. I've had that happen occasionally on different networks as well. Each time I just wrote support to say "I've verified my link is correct, could you please check it again?" and was able to get approved.

Another thing you can do is ask your aff network to turn off geo-redirection permanently. Unless a significant portion of your traffic is from a geo you're NOT targetting, the number of conversions you'll get from the geo-redirection will be either nil or negligible anyway.


Amy

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What kind of problem do you have with geo targeting ?

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