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Track campaign on Voluum using postback only? (6)

02-20-2017 05:30 AM #1 aoworks (Member)
Track campaign on Voluum using postback only?

I was wondering if it would be possible to use only postback URLs to pass tokens to Voluum and have it track a campaign, without giving Voluum our lander URLs?

02-20-2017 05:34 AM #2 erikgyepes (Moderator)

Well, you first must understand how postbacks are working.

When you are going through the trackers tracking URL (in this case Voluum) each click to the offer gets its unique clickID.

Then if conversion happens network sends back that information alongside with the unique clickID.

So..

In you case your network could send back that information, but you would be missing the clickID so the conversion could not be correctly assigned to any of your campaigns.

Maybe tell us what is your intention to do so and we can see if there is another solution to your problem?

02-20-2017 06:21 AM #3 aoworks (Member)

Hypothetically lets say we don't trust the tracker because we are paranoid.
Can't we track the conversions to the correct campaign using only campaign id and conversion tokens in postback url?

02-20-2017 06:40 AM #4 erikgyepes (Moderator)

Yes: Code up your own tracker :-)

If you are paranoid, use more trackers or create more accounts under 1 tracker.

Use different names and domains.

But there are 1000s of affiliates making 1000s of $$$ daily.

Unless you are making incredible huge amounts of money with your unique method that no one else ever used it would make sense, otherwise you are not interesting for them.

The first step is to change your paranoid mind and focus your energy towards the important things.

Just my opinion.

Take care.

Erik

02-20-2017 11:10 AM #5 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by aoworks View Post
Hypothetically lets say we don't trust the tracker because we are paranoid.
Can't we track the conversions to the correct campaign using only campaign id and conversion tokens in postback url?
Nope, Voluum uses clickID to identify the visit, it's a unique parameter. The clickID is generated when a click goes through the campaign tracking link, if you don't send the clicks through the tracking link, the clickID will not get generated. The postback url is designed to work with the clickID, if you do not pass the clickID back to Voluum, it simply WON'T know what to do with the other data, voluum won't be able to match it to a campaign since its' all based around the clickID.

I'm with Erik on this, you will most likely get lost in the ocean of affiliates that use voluum. On a side note, using a self hosted tracker is more secure in this, since all remains on your own server. So switch to funnelflux for example.

02-20-2017 11:21 AM #6 jessejames (Member)

Many self hosted trackers have ioncube protected code though? So you can't tell what it does?

I wouldn't worry though.

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