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07-24-2019 05:38 PM #1 zenion (Member)
Tracking Mobipium smartlink campaign with Voluum

When I started writing this post I wrote more than a page explaining basic knowledge, writing nothing about simple setup in this first page, so I decided to split the post in three sections as Amy did for her 40-day tutorial, since that worked well for me: you can set all up reading ACTION part and read EXPLANATION and READING while you campaign is running.

ACTION: plain explanation on how to set all up.
EXPLANATION: what is a tracker, why we should use it and why we set up that way.
READING: further understanding you can find inside the forum.

ACTION

In this thread we are going to set up Voluum to track our campaigns in Mobipium with one or more traffic sources.

Mobipium - Smartlink

We are going to change settings in Mobipium first, starting from the Smartlink you have to prepare. We should already have our Smartlink, that is something like this:

Original (freshly copied from Mobipium):

Code:
https://123456.catchtheclick.com/?mob=<averylongstringhere>
and the modified PopAds version:
Code:
https://123456.catchtheclick.com/?mob=<averylongstringhere>&tid=[IMPRESSIONID]

Now prepare the Voluum version, that is the one we will copy next into Voluum, changing tid=[IMPRESSIONID] with tid={clickid}. So we’ll have:
Code:
https://123456.catchtheclick.com/?mob=<averylongstringhere>&tid={clickid}
as our final url. Create and save it for now on our favorite text editor, we’ll use that later.

Mobipium - Pixel Implementation

Now we have to change settings in Pixel Implementation inside Mobipium: from now on our Mobipium generated data, including conversions, will be reported directly to Voluum, not to PopAds anymore. The link we are going to change now has to be set once and for all (as long as we’ll use Voluum as tracker, with the same domain).

We find something like this on Please provide your callback URL here, that is the PopAds version:
Code:
http://serve.popads.net/cpixel.php?s2s=1&aid=<averylongstring>&id={tid}&value={pay}
And it has to be changed with the Voluum postback url:
Code:
http://your.voluumdomain.com/postback?cid={tid}&payout={pay}
where your.voluumdomain.com has to be changed with your tracking domain set on Voluum that you can find as your Main domain on Settings, Domains inside you Voluum account.

If you go to Voluum settings inside your account, under Tracking URLs section, you can see that we simply used the customized version of your Postback Url with the tokens recognized by Mobipium.

So all should be set up like this:




Be sure to replace your.voluumdomain.com with your own real domain and then click UPDATE. In the field below we leave tid,pay as it is. We need to wait about 10-15 minutes before update changes.

Mobipium has been updated!

Voluum - Add PopAds as traffic source

If you already have PopAds added to Voluum as traffic source just skip this part.

Login into your Voluum account, click Traffic sources, New traffic source:





Templates window opens and scrolling down we have to select PopAds, then Load template:





A new window will show up and you can leave it as it is; just Save it. In EXPLANATION part we’ll add some customization, to pass back data to PopAds too.

PopAds is now added to Voluum!


Voluum - Add Mobipium as affiliate network

We previously fixed up Mobipium to work along with our tracker, we need to add it now as Affiliate Network inside Voluum.
To do this just login into your Voluum account, select Affiliate Networks from your dashboard, then click New Affiliate Network:




A template window opens where we can find Mobipium ready to be added if we scroll down:




Just select it and click Create. A new window open with Mobipium name, parameters and tokens already set up (since it’s a template). Just click Save.
Now we have Mobipium as Affiliate Network inside our tracker!


Voluum - Create offer from the Smartlink

We are ready to create the offer now, so from Voluum dashboard select Offers, then New Offer and Create:





New offer window shows up where we have to add Offer name, Offer URL and select Mobipium as Affiliate network.
In the name we can write simply Smartlink, in the URL field we have to copy the url we created above and saved to our favorite text editor, something like this:
Code:
https://123456.catchtheclick.com/?mob=<averylongstringhere>&tid={clickid}
So we have:





Click Save and our offer is created.

Voluum - Create campaign

Campaign creation is straightforward, from Voluum Dashboard select Campaigns, New campaign, TRK Simple:





A new windows open where we have to select PopAds as Traffic Source, insert current date with a name that represents this campaign in the field below, select Direct linking and select the offer we just created:





Click Save and the Tracking panel shows up; just click Done, we’ll copy Campaign URL later.

PopAds - Create campaign

The last thing to do is create the campaign in PopAds; to do this we can follow the steps reported in the “Make Your 1st Dollar Online" guide, but instead of adding Smartlink URL in the Single URL field, we need to add the URL campaign created in Voluum.
So get Voluum campaign URL by selecting Campaigns from Voluum Dashboard, right click on our campaign and selecting Copy URL:


It is a very long string like this:
Code:
http://your.voluumdomain.com/8efb7bef-e584-4c54-8fec-35f872cc50b4?WEBSITEID=[WEBSITEID]&QUALITY=[QUALITY]&ADBLOCK=[ADBLOCK]&CATEGORYID=[CATEGORYID]&DEVICENAME=[DEVICENAME]&ISPNAME=[ISPNAME]&ISPID=[ISPID]&screenresoFORMFACTORNAMElution=[FORMFACTORNAME]&SCREENRESOLUTION=[SCREENRESOLUTION]&IMPRESSIONID=[IMPRESSIONID]&BID=[BID]&IMPRESSIONID=[IMPRESSIONID]
So set up campaign like we did in STEP 3: SET UP CAMPAIGN ON POPADS in the “Make Your 1st Dollar Online" but paste the link we just copied in the Single URL field:





As soon as the remaining campaign information is set up, we are ready to click Create Campaign and wait for approval.

Conclusion

All people that will navigate our offer now will pass through Voluum from the beginning to the final conversions; Voluum will collect data from both Mobipium (conversions and payouts) and PopAds (a lot of parameters, even screen resolution), including data that itself collect.


EXPLANATION

Writing just now...

07-25-2019 11:40 PM #2 vortex (Senior Moderator)

Thanks SO MUCH for this Alessio!

I'm very impressed by your tenacity - you took the time to think and read and test until you understood how tracking works.

And THEN you took valuable time to organize your new-found knowledge into such a comprehensive post!

This kind of attitude will take you far. Real far. I'm sure of it.

Looking forward to seeing how far you'll go.

Thanks again - A++ for effort and quality!



Amy

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