Rules and DMR on Voluum - How? (5)

Hello STMers,

I searched STM all around but couldn't find any straight forward manual on cloaking through DMR and Rules in Voluum.

To my understanding its one of those "Don't ask, Don't tell" things in AM industry but still would be curious to know general information or tutorial about it.

Thanks

Denys

Hello Denys,

Topic of cloaking is sensitive and nobody is really ever going to talk about it on a public forum.
That's why it's recommended to not go on your own and form or join a mastermind.

However...

DMR technically just clears the referrer where your traffic is coming from ie. your landing page URL.
There is nothing much to teach about it, simply enable it in your tracker and you are good to go.

With rules on the other side you can control the flow of your traffic.
They can be used for "cloaking", but also your own advantage purposes.

You can manage on which landing page and offer your visitor is going to end up.
Each tracker should have their own documentation on how to use these features.

Hope I helped at least a bit

Erik

Originally Posted by erikgyepes

Hello Denys,

Topic of cloaking is sensitive and nobody is really ever going to talk about it on a public forum.
That's why it's recommended to not go on your own and form or join a mastermind.

However...

DMR technically just clears the referrer where your traffic is coming from ie. your landing page URL.
There is nothing much to teach about it, simply enable it in your tracker and you are good to go.

With rules on the other side you can control the flow of your traffic.
They can be used for "cloaking", but also your own advantage purposes.

You can manage on which landing page and offer your visitor is going to end up.
Each tracker should have their own documentation on how to use these features.

Hope I helped at least a bit

Erik

Basically, you'll want to use Voluum rules to restrict the traffic to ONLY what your offer will allow, and send the rest to a safe page or a monetizing service (like afflow).

So - if your offer only accepts traffic from 1 geo, 1 carrier, 1 OS, 1 device type - then you'd want to set up these 4 Voluum rules.

I've also just replied to your FA thread here:

https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...l=1#post302637

I was going to suggest that you start a new thread to ask the question - glad to see you already did. Least I could do is give this thread a bump to get more eyeballs.

There are also commercial cloakers on the market you can check out. Do a search on this forum and you'll find at least one that got positive reviews from some of the biggest affs in the industry. I don't use commercial cloakers so can't comment.

(Disclaimer: STM does not encourage the practice of cloaking, and neither do we endorse any cloakers. Please engage in this practice / use cloakers at your risk and discretion.)



Amy

Set up Voluum rules and allow only the carriers you want to target. Send everything else to an safepage or direct link. If the traffic source spoofs your Voluum rules or has an local carrier IP you can ask your affiliate network AM for IP-Ranges and setup rules for those. If that doesn't help you need to buy an proper cloaker that can detect and block proxies, VPNs and uncommon ISPs.

Voluum rules will get your account suspended on all traffic sources that are taking their compliance seriously and investing some money into solutions to find and suspend affs running BH. The more layers of security you have the better. Think about ways they could get to your real landing page and create a solution for it. Analyze your data what footprints the traffic sources leaves and cloak them.