Loosing my mind with tracking! (9)

Hi Guys

After blowing my mind getting my head around tracking etc think I am finally getting there.

So I've setup my campaign etc - the thing I don't understand is:

Tracker Campaign link(Unique ID assigned) -> Landing Page -> Click on URL to ClickDealer -> Offer is converted and Clickdealer uses Postback URL to communicate a conversion has happened to tracker

Once the tracker passes the user to the landing page - how does it continued to be tracked by ClickDealer?

Apologises if it is obvious - I've spent hours on this today!

Hello day1stacker!

The main question: What tracking software are you using?

If you use Voluum, your setting will be:

1) Go to "Setup" and grab your post back url: http://take.ms/sinkZ

2) Replace tokens. So you need to write Cake's tokens (it's a system which ClickDealer are using for work). So your link will be:

http://xxxx.voluumtrk2.com/postback?cid=#s2#&payout=#price#

You need to understand the basic "technology" behind this

When you send a click through some tracker, every single click is assigned a unique ID and this ID is carried with the user from now on. Some trackers use cookies, some use sessions, some combine them or use something different. One way or another, the ID identifies this user from now on. Trackers use different parameters to work with this ID.

In case you are using Voluum as you tracker, the parameter will be {clickid} - place this parameter somewhere in your Voluum urls and it will be replaced with the actual ID. So let's take a closer look at a voluum campaign, but it's pretty much the same with any other tracker just the parameter can be different.

So now we had someone click on a voluum campaign url, the click went through voluum and the user was assigned the unique ID. The user clicks on the CTA button and is sent to an affiliate network, in order to pass the ID to them, you need to add the {clickid} at the end of the offer URL when setting it up in voluum. So now the user goes through the clickdealer script, I think they use the cake platform. Cake records the ID and stores it and they send the click to the advertiser ALONG with the click ID. The advertiser records the ID again and tracks what the user does, in case he subscribes, they send the ID back to clickdealer so they know that this particular user converted. And clickdealer sends it back to your tracking, so YOU know that this particular user converted. That's what the postback does, it only calls the postback feature of voluum but with that particular ID again. Now the circle is closed

In case you are using just one tracker, it's always good to setup global postbacks with affiliate networks you are using and you won't have to worry about it anymore

Hope it's more clear to you now.

Matej.

The posts above ^ seemed to have answered everything quite nicely. Adsbridge uses the same functions, but like saidabove, it is called something a bit different. http://take.ms/0QEMU (take a look here, and it is all explained). This all depends on what tracker you're using. Hope this helped!
-Alex

Hey i have an integration guide about Clickdealer and Funnel Flux. Check that out, cause there is not much difference for the other trackers.

ClickDealer - Funnel Flux Integration

Thanks all - just to clarify:

1. Tracking URL from Adsbridge (http://aoqjr.adsbtrk.com/c/<id here of campaign>?websiteid=[WEBSITEID]&keyword=[KEYWORD]&categoryid=[CATEGORYID]&country=[COUNTRY) is url provided to Traffic Source

2. Upon pop up of that URL the tracker will pass the visitor to my landing page

3. Within the landing page there will be the offer linked for the user to click on - url for this will be my networks URL to the offer? http://cldlr.com/?a=<aff ID here>&c=<campaign ID here>&s1=

4. Offer URL once clicked will load up the offer and user will action

5. Upon success, the tracking pixel I placed in to clickdealer will call back to let the tracker know there has been a conversion.. url I have placed in to clickdealer for this offer for call back is: http://aoqjr.adsbtrk.com/trackpixel/...2#&amt=#price#

I do not understand how the unique ID is carried over from the point where the tracker passes to the landing page to the clickdealer's url to the offer?

Forgive me if I am on the wrong track completely!

Originally Posted by day1stacker

I do not understand how the unique ID is carried over from the point where the tracker passes to the landing page to the clickdealer's url to the offer?

This may help to clear up how your tracking works, and what steps it goes through:

http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread...-Read-This-Now

I spoke to our technical team, (please refer to them with any more questions at support@Adsbridge.com) and this was their response:
First off, you need to make sure your offer and landing pages are functioning.
In order for a user to come upon an offer from your landing page, our Click URL should be connected to your CTA button. You can find this URL in the ‘Tracking Pixels’ section in the ‘single offer click URL’ field.
After do this, upon transferring via campaign link, users will successfully be able to transfer from your landing page to the offer.

In order to get unique click ID on ClickDealer, you need to make sure the offer link :

http://cldlr.com/?a=<aff ID here>&c=<campaign ID here>&s1=

has this added to it: &s2=<tid>

It should then look like this:

http://cldlr.com/?a=<aff ID here>&c=<campaign ID here>&s1=&s2=<tid>

<tid> is a macro that our system changes to a unique click ID. This click ID will be sent to ClickDealer in the s2 parameter, and will appear there in the statistics.
After the completion of a conversion, ClickDealer will get our postback. The postback on ClickDealer should be such:

http://aoqjr.adsbtrk.com/trackpixel/...2#&amt=#price#

This should help your conversion tracking work normally

-Alex