Hey guys,
I've had some problems with certain affiliate networks' Tracking/postback setups.
For example, some only support "postbacks" as opposted to Javascript/Image pixels.
As a potential solution, my dev suggested making a url mysite.com/thankyou to add to my aff. network as a postback URL.
He'd then host javascript pixels/img pixels there and THEN they'd fire back to traffic sources.
The idea is:
consumer clicks ad --> my site --> clickthrough to offer --> converts --> aff network fires postback to my custom postback page --> postback page fires conversion to traffic sources.
Does this work as an idea?
Here's the view-source of the postback page we created:
| <head> | |
| <title>Thank you!</title> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <div align="center"> | |
| Thank you! | |
| <img src="//trends.revcontent.com/conv.php?t=#############################" /> | |
| <img src="https://sp.analytics.yahoo.com/spp.pl?a=##############"/> | |
| </div> | |
| </body> |
Postbacks are sent from server to server.
Pixels are client to server, usually relying on user cookies.
So unfortunately you can't fire pixels using a postback if an offer doesn't support html/javascript.
Revcontent has a postback you can use however, as do most sources. And some trackers like
If you need some more sophisticated solution for dealing with multiple postbacks then I'd look at using zapier.
edit: Basically if you can use postbacks, you wont need to mess around with adding a handful of scripts on the affiliate network side of things, as it will be handled by your tracker.
I just spent weeks building a system to do exactly what you just described.
http://prosper.tracking202.com/blog/...-s2s-postbacks
You are on track. The missing part is the communication link between the client and server side.