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Adcash and Voluum setup problems. (7)

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Hi Stackers

I am having problems setting up adcash tracking with Voluum.

The tracking seems to work on Voluum side but I get no data from adcash aside from number of impressions.
When I look at the pixel setup from adcash , it says not activated. I have contacted adcash support but
I dont understand what they are telling me to do. I have done the first two steps but not the third.

"Step 3: Configure the postback URL by writing the code that calls this URL when a conversion is registered.
There are several ways to do this but the easiest and most common is to use cURL in PHP
(http://www.php.net/manual/en/curl.examples-basic.php)"

Any help is appreciated.
Thank you

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What do you want to achieve actually? You want adcash to pass you data like the site ID?

Check the url that you used for the campaign at adcash, does it contain the [zone] tag? Sometimes people forget to replace the link with a new one when they edit the traffic source settings in Voluum.

The Voluum screenshot you posted is the "default" one, to see the additional data passed through the tokens, you need to open the "report" for a campaign and then choose something from the "Variables" drop-down menu on the right side. Did you check it this way?

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OK thanks for your response Matuloo

Here is some more information.

http://www.imcounting.com/script/register_event.php?key=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxc d4ac0&type=&campagne=xxxxxxxx&cid={externalid}

That is what i put into the trafffic source for Voluum.


My campaign url is something like this

http://agcyt.voluumtrk.com/xxxxxxxxx...xxxxxx?siteid=[zone]&countryid=[country]&campaign=[campaign]&bid=[bid]&clickid=[clickid}


You can see in this screenshot that no conversions or clicks are shown . But i did have many clicks and a few conversions. I cannot blacklist or whitelist until i fix this problem.

Hope you can help..Thanks Matuloo

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Ok, looks like we need to do some clarification here.

1. the offer URL, this is what you get from the affiliate network. You put this url into Voluum when setting up a new offer.
2. campaign URL, this is what Voluum will generate for you once you finish setting up a campaign. This is what you put into a traffic source when starting a campaign there.
3. postback URL, you can find this in the voluum setup. You need to give this to your AM at the affiliate network in order to get the conversions reported in voluum. It looks like this : http://XXXXX.voluumtrk2.com/postback...&txid=OPTIONAL

For everything to work, you need to tweak some parts of the links.

1. the offer URL will look like : http://www.affiliatenetworktrackingd...96&c=323654432, you need to add the clickID tag at the end of it, but every network want's to get it passed to them in a different format. Many networks use the CAKE platform, so in case of a cake network, the offer URL needs to look like this : www.affiliatenetworktrackingdomain.com/?a=15596&c=323654432&s2={clickid}

Note the s2 part, voluum will replace the {clickid} tag with a unique code that it assigns to every sent click.

2. the campaign URL should look like what you posted above : http://agcyt.voluumtrk.com/xxxxxxxxx...xxxxxx?siteid=[zone]&countryid=[country]&campaign=[campaign]&bid=[bid]&clickid=[clickid] - this will depend on the traffic source setup in voluum. One way or another, you MUST use this link at the traffic sources.

3. The postback URL needs to be edited based on what the affiliate network requires too. Let's use the CAKE example again. You passed them the clickID through the s2 parameter, so you need them to send it back to you in case a conversion happens. Your default postback url will look like http://XXXXX.voluumtrk2.com/postback...&txid=OPTIONAL, we only need the first part for the postback to work so we can shorten it to http://XXXXX.voluumtrk2.com/postback?cid=REPLACE - and we need to add the s2 parameter to it too. So the final postback URL for a cake network will look like this : http://XXXXX.voluumtrk2.com/postback?cid=#s2#

Replace the XXXX with your personal tag and send this to your AM.

Do you think you understand it now or need more assistance?

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Here are the other 2 urls that I havent shown yet


1) offer url http://xxxxx.com/?a=xxxxxxx&c=xxxxxxxx&s1={campaign.id}&s2={clickid }
2) postback url http://agcyt.voluumtrk2.com/postback...ce#&txid=#tid#

My AM already has my Voluum postback from before.

It looks like I have the set up as you have shown. Can't figure why it doesnt work on adcash.

I have contacted their support again.Will see

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Can you show me a campaign url that you are using at a traffic source? Or PM it to me please.

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Ok, I think we found the solution, OP used postback to report conversion to Voluum but they were not reported further to adcash, so adcash couldn't report them either.

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