Why Do They Do That? (6)
I noticed that a lot of people use one different domain that redirects after clicked to the offer.
Meaning : DOMAIN1 (where lp will be hosted) -> click on a link on lp -> DOMAIN2 -> Redirect to offer.
Why?
Does this prevent the link being flagged as non secure? (for example peerfly aff link is in http).
This is the tracking url, which you can use for infinite amount of campaigns.
The basic setup is :
- tracking domain that you will use for the tracker
- landing page domain that you will use to host LPs, you can have as many as you want.
When creating campaigns in the tracker, you will get a tracking url generated by the tracker and you use this at the traffic sources. When a click comes through the trackign url, it will pull the campaign data and send the click to the LP you have comfigured in the tracker, and then to the actual offer.
A click from the sources "travels" like this:
Click on banner -> tracking domain -> landing page domain -> click on the LP -> tracking domain -> offer
Hope I helped you understand it better 
Thank you matuloo. honestly got a little confused with all these links and couldn't really figure out, my brain was ''FULL!'' after all the info I read here in such a short amount of time. A lot more clearer now. I do have another question if I can... I setted up the offer link on the lp, I click on it.
''RED'',
''WARNING'',
''MALICIOUS'' screen popped out (from my antivirus). The affiliate link is in http... figured out it might do a lot of damage...even a user that wants to complete the offer wll just close the tab immediately after seeing the warning message.
What do you think about this? What do you advise to do in this situation? There is any trick/solution for it? It's a peerfly aff link btw(Why they wouldn't add ssl to their domain I don't really know...).
There's not a whole lot you can do about these malicious warnings, its up to affiliate networks and advertisers to figure their shit out.
Technically you could use the Fluxify feature in FunnelFlux to serve the offer pages on your own domain, but there's the risk of the advertiser page breaking + networks can redirect the tracker server and make it not serve the right page anyway (just something you have to test and find out).
You could similiarly iFrame the entire offer/aff link on your own page but this is unlikely to work that well either (not sure if Chrome would still flag).
Hey Matt-
The above folks like zeno have infinitely more knowledge on this subject than me but thought I'd add my .02$.
I've been using Clickbank and Max Bounty and have encountered about 2-5% of offers on those networks (actually might just be Clickbank not Max Bounty) that haven't upgraded to ssl or whatever it is and I get those same 'danger' warnings when I try to access them on certain browsers.
As a result I just don't promote those offers... because your right, that's going to make profitability almost impossible and it suggests to me those vendors aren't really monitoring their setups anyway.
I would be shocked if that is an issue affecting more than a tiny fraction of offers in the whole affiliate world though, so I would think you could find lots of good ones otherwise too.
And then yeah, both your landing page service and tracker service probably have either an automatic https or a inexpensive paid upgrade to it. For me, I believe Landerbolt's was automatic,
In addition, and someone much smarter than me feel free to correct if wrong- a lot of tracking links and postback url's and affiliate links and all that stuff will still work even if they are http and you just manually add an 's' on the end (I think).
Again- take all this with a huge grain of sale- I am a total newbie at this, but again I figured another newbie perspective might be valuable.
I don't think a standard http link causes a malicious page warning ... as far as I know, the warning only happens when you are leaving the "secure" environment and entering the non secure one... so from https to http, or when the certificate expires.
It's also possible that the particular offer has been flagged ... in such case, just pass on, as zeno said it's up to the networks to clean their act, there is not much you can do.
There is so many offers to chose from, pick those that work without flaws.
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