To cloak or not to cloak? (15)
Can anyone give any suggestions whether you should cloak on mobile or not? I know the redirect can lose a ton of clicks, especially with Prosper, so what do you guys recommend when setting up campaigns? Do you just put the URL you get from the CPA network straight into the ad network or do you have a method to release as little info as possible?
kinda interested in this as well... cus if you cloak with p202 i find that you lose lots of traffic.. probably best to just use the ad network link but then again its hard to optimize that way.. 0_0
anyone?? 
I imagine you should cloak when you are running something that isn't compliant.
if you have to ask if you need to cloak, then dont as you will not do well with it
I don't know about the mobile world....but this is what I will say about cloaking networks....unless you are doing shady shit there really is no point.....
I have sent a fair amount of clicks to networks over the last few years.....and I never have had an issue.....hell I still don't use tracking on some of my FB camps......
run with networks you trust.....you generally wont have issues
bring it in ssl out non = scrub a dub.
Originally Posted by chillyh2o
Originally Posted by vidivo
Do you think that losing traffic happens with non-mobile visitors too ?
+1 for scrub a dub, no idea what that meant lol
umm, I've heard that for traffic like PPV cloaking without a lander could take slightly long enough that a person will lose interest and insta-X the popup window but if you use a lander and they click through the lander the cloaking lag isn't such a big deal.... someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Personally I recommend cloaking your referrers always especially if you're using a lander...If your traffic is legit it will back out and the advertiser will profit and the network will be happy. If not, then it won't. Showing your traffic sources / referrers will not change this. If you do show your traffic sources to your network, you take an unnecessary risk of letting your network see your landing page (or them finding out about an obscure traffic source) ...they could do whatever they want with it and that could suck for you (possibly leading to the market getting saturated with other affs). But, as people have said if you trust them it shouldn't really matter.
Originally Posted by dario
http://prosper.tracking202.com/blog/money-loves-speed
Originally Posted by dario
What this means:
Make your destination link secure with (ssl) a.k.a. secure shell or 'https'
that way the advertiser you are sending leads too does not scrub your leads.
Scrub means: they do not give you credit for leads. Like email submits for example.
A secure page model eliminates those issues.
At the end of the day no amount of trying to hide your campaign will keep you completed isolated. We don't live in a bubble. If its not the ad network that outs you, its a competing affiliate. No matter what you're shit will be found out sooner or later and most networks are good at hunting things down. 80/20 rule if you have to spend 80% of your time in fear of losing 20% of your campaigns its probably not worth it.
Originally Posted by jspecify
they can still scrub, with or without a blank referer.
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