Hey guys,
Does anyone know how to pass back specific subids in Linktrust?
They are passed through on my affiliate link as &SID=subid1,subid2,subid3 etc.
I have found that Linktrust considers everything after SID as one value, and using the [=SID=] token in a pixel (specifically postback URL) just fires off "subid1,subid2,subid3" whereas I need it to specifically ONLY use subid2.
Any ideas? I can just modify my redirect file to add only the one subid I need but i'd rather figure this out for the future.
I'm just thinking out loud here. I'm not sure if it'll work, but you might try it out.
If you use Prosper, you can send all those values to your Prosper202 database, by using your [[c#]] variables in your outbound link.
When you setup the link in Prosper in Step 3 you can make your link http://affnetworktrackingurl.com/cli...&adid=###&sid=[[c2]]
That way the only value passed back to the network will be [[c2]].
Unfortunately I'm using my APIs tracking system so no prosper in the middle.
I want multiple subids turning up at the network end so I can manually check stats and compare, look at click loss per campaign/angle etc.
In the end I only really need the one subid turning up network side to track conversions and will just have to let the API platform handle the rest. It just feels.... inelegant.
I'm sure there must be a way though, it would be downright idiotic for a tracking platform to not allow selective subid use in pixels when you can use multiple subids.
You can prob do something with a postback script.....where you would send it to a intermediary script which strips out the subid you need then fires the postback from SAM with the correct subid
Ahhh, that's a good idea. Although I still think I shouldn't have to do it, grrr Linktrust.