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Passing variables back to Affiliate Network (Voluum) (6)

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Hi Guys,

I've been digging around the forums looking for an answer on this, but unfortunately have been unsuccessful!

I'm currently setting up a new campaign, and would like to feedback some information on Traffic Source and Campaign IDs back to the affiliate network. As the campaign is lead-gen rather than sales, this will let me get quality checks on the various LPs that I'm running- for instance I don't want a situation where a fantastic converting page is actually delivering awful leads, and ditto with the traffic sources, which would come into play as and when the campaign scales.

Now obviously, my main concern is ensuring that these variables are passed back in an obfuscated form- I don't want the TS variable saying 'PopAds', for example! As long as the Aff Network have a coded SubID which they can ask for more/less traffic from, I can put that into action from my side.

What is the best way to do this in Voluum?

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Check if this is of any help : http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread...t-Revealing-it

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The simplest is to use the "var1, var2, var3" from the screenshot you posted. Go to the "Traffic sources" and open some source, in the advanced settings you can configure these as the first 3 custom variables. You can use some dynamic token from the network or use your own - you need to type them into the url yourself in that case, or use some custom scripts. Then, in the offer setup, you make the {var1} 2 or 3 part of the URL and Voluum will replace it with the collected value and pass it to the network.

You don't need the advertiser to pass this back to the tracker, this is something you will ask them about or they will ask you to stop some IDs directly.

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If I understand you correctly, you can just decide that "PopAds" is TS1 (or whatever codename you want to use) and add the token in your tracking link (for example aff_sub3=TS1 or #S3#=TS1) and add it to your postback as well.

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matuloo that's the ticket, thank you! I had a feeling what I was looking for was more simple than how I was asking it..

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You're welcome

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