Sorry for the noobie question, but are there any guides on setting up and understanding tracking. What exactly i should be tracking?
EDIT: I found a pretty good article on setting up tracking in
http://charlesngo.com/voluum-campaign-setup/
What network are you setting it up for? What are you trying to set up?
Here are step-by-step set up guides for your tracking between Addiliate.com and
http://support.addiliate.com/
I am looking for something good too - as i need to track conversion from adwords to e-junkie.
Great post from Caurmen
http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread...light=tracking
Once you nail this. Make a screencast and refer back to it. Each system is different and each system will play with another system differently. You're best bet, and this worked well for me in the past, is to leverage your relationship with your tracking system and affiliate network/advertiser. Between the two you should be able to get some answers and support. Specific questions on a forum like this can often yield a result I'm sure as well.
Best of luck,
C
Hey, pfabian166, if you want to understand tracking, you can read the caurmen's post. That's golden!
You can start with:
1. Get a VPS
2. Select a vertical
3. Select a tracker
4. Select a couple of networks and get your approval
5. Select a traffic source
If you are already done with it, pls share.
Let's stop on the tracker section. Tracking systems help to control all your traffic. They automate the setup and launch processes of campaigns, calculate KPI, collect and analyze statistics, and finally, optimize the traffic distribution, bringing more money.
Here are some option you can use on
1. Traffic distribution — AdsBridge enables you to distribute traffic by GEO, devices, languages, OS, etc. (more than 16 parameters available). You can purchase any traffic and then precisely set up targeting, analyze statistics, and monetize all traffic in time.
2. Split-testing — with the help of a split-test option, you can easily check which of your offers or landing pages performed better. In cases when there is one and the same offer on several CPA networks, you also can determine which of them brings more conversations, and how many redirects are made before the user gets to your offer.
3. Pre-landers — for some verticals like dating, nutra, and download, affiliates use pre-landers which usually increase the general performance up to 30%. AdsBridge is probably the only tracker that has an inbuilt landing page editor, enabling you to create, set up, and then test all your landing creatives. More to it, all landers are hosted on our side and all graphic content that you upload on jump pages operates through CDN provider with which we cooperate.
4. Fraud filtering — you can set the tracker to determine and filter out the fraudulent traffic and this way, ensure that it remains clean.
5. Cloaking — most trackers have hide referrer functionality. They also enable you to redirect the undesirable traffic to the neutral domain. AdsBridge provides such domain by default but you can add your own one as well.
6. Multi-User access — this features will come in handy for large affiliate teams, however not all trackers have it. AdsBridge lets you work under one account and easily track the efficiency of each manager, monitor their work, and if necessary limit the setting rights for new employees, ensuring the safety of information.
7. Auto-optimization — having this feature in tracker you no longer have to waste much of your time to optimize your campaigns, all at once. On AdsBridge, you can set the conditions and time intervals for statistics calculation, and the system will automatically provide you with the data on the best-performed landing pages and offers.
Hope you get better idea of tracking. Let me know if you'll need any help with settings. We have lots of video tutorials and manuals.
Integration Addiliate - Go2mobi: http://support.addiliate.com/go2mobi...sion-tracking/
Integration Addiliate -
Integration Addiliate - HasOffers: http://support.addiliate.com/hasoffe...sion-tracking/
Integration Addiliate - Cake: http://support.addiliate.com/cake-conversion-tracking/
Integration Addiliate - CPVlab: http://support.addiliate.com/cpvlab_...sion_tracking/
Integration Addiliate - Prosper202: http://support.addiliate.com/prosper...sion-tracking/
Integration Addiliate - Adsbridge: http://support.addiliate.com/adsbrid...sion-tracking/
Hope this works :-)
One of my tasks for May is to overhaul some of STM's tracking guides, notably our Postback guide and our Offer URL guide (which are the two areas where most people get stuck).
I'll also be doing more newbie guides for popular trackers.
@Caurmen ..... Please..... I have been at setting tracking (