Hello everyone,
I am a little new to affiliate marketing. I have played around with it a year or so ago and ran a few campaigns with revcontent and broke even a year ago selling those tactical flashlights. Long story short, I am back at doing this again and I strongly believe I can be successful at this. My area that I need to most assistance in is setting up tracking properly. Each offer site is completely different than others, so sometimes it can be easy to get confused when doing things. I have been following Amy's 40 Day Guide, however, my app with their stated affiliate hasn't been approved yet. I have found several GREAT offers with a company I joined a year or so ago and I want to use them, However, I am a bit stuck on the creating the final offer link.
Here is what my postback url looks like.
http://xxxxxx.com/postback?cid={aff_click_id}&payout={payout}
But this is the offer url currently
http://offer-link.com/aff_c?offer_id=xxxxx&aff_id=xxxxx
In the guide they state we need to add
data4={campaign.id}&data5={trafficsource.id}&tag={ clickid}
However, I am not specifically sure what variable would be the sufficient replacement in their platform. Here is there list of variable
{offer_id} - ID of offer.
{offer_name} - Name of offer.
{offer_ref} - Reference ID for offer.
{goal_id} - ID of goal for offer.
{affiliate_id} - ID of affiliate.
{affiliate_name} - Company name of affiliate.
{affiliate_ref} - Reference ID for affiliate.
{source} - Source value specified in the tracking link.
{aff_sub} - Affiliate sub specified in the tracking link.
{aff_sub2} - Affiliate sub 2 specified in the tracking link.
{aff_sub3} - Affiliate sub 3 specified in the tracking link.
{aff_sub4} - Affiliate sub 4 specified in the tracking link.
{aff_sub5} - Affiliate sub 5 specified in the tracking link.
{aff_click_id} - Affiliate click ID specified in the tracking link.
{aff_unique1} - Affiliate unique value 1 specified in the tracking link.
{aff_unique2} - Affiliate unique value 2 specified in the tracking link.
{aff_unique3} - Affiliate unique value 3 specified in the tracking link.
{aff_unique4} - Affiliate unique value 4 specified in the tracking link.
{aff_unique5} - Affiliate unique value 5 specified in the tracking link.
{offer_url_id} - ID of offer URL for offer.
{offer_file_id} - ID of creative file for offer.
{file_name} - Name of creative file for offer.
{advertiser_id} - ID of advertiser.
{advertiser_ref} - Reference ID for affiliate.
{adv_sub} - Advertiser sub specified in the conversion pixel / URL.
{transaction_id} - ID of the transaction for your network. Don't get confused with an ID an affiliate passes into aff_sub.
{session_ip} - IP address that started the tracking session.
{ip} - IP address that made the conversion request.
{date} - Current date of conversion formatted as YYYY-MM-DD.
{time} - Current time of conversion formatted as HH:MM:SS.
{datetime} - Current date and time of conversion formatted as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.
{ran} - Randomly generated number.
{currency} - 3 digit currency abbreviated.
{payout} - Amount paid to affiliate for conversion.
{sale_amount} - Sale amount generated for advertiser from conversion.
{device_id} - For mobile app tracking, the ID of the user's mobile device.
I would greatly appreciate any advice on this. I have searched around this forum but not many people talk about tracking with this network and I also did some google searching and wasnt able to fully find the answer.
Once I get all my information properly setup I am planning to start a follow along. :-)
This is what I have now for the offer link. Does it appear to be correct?
http://offer-link.com/aff_c?offer_id=xxxx&aff_id=xxxx&aff_click_id={aff_ click_id}&aff_unique1={source}&aff_unique2={advert iser_id}
Update.
Reading a bit more and realizing that the variables in the offer ID is actually data that is sent from
http://offer-link.com/aff_c?offer_id=xxxx&aff_id=xxxx&aff_click_id={clic kid}&aff_unique1={campaign.id}&aff_unique2={traffi csource.id}
What backend are they using, looks likehasoffers based on the {aff_sub} tokens, can you confirm that?
With hasoffers, the only token needed for trackign is usually the {aff_sub2} ... in the offer url it should look like this for
In case its some custom solution and they want you to use the aff_click_id token, then yes, it should look like what you specified : ....aff_click_id={clickid}...
Tip: passing the other info like campaignid, traffisourceid etc is basically optional and can be used to optimize your campaigns better, but not all offers are actually able to track those properly, so it's not like you HAVE to pass those.