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Is it possible to make direct link work without redirect to Affiliate Network url? (10)

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I saw this thread https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...er-description

And I wonder if it's possible to skip redirect to the ClickDealer url and go straight to the offer with extra params in url.

Params I'm talking about are first name, last name, date of birth passed from my lander to make conversions smoother.

I saw some fb offers that accept this data as p3-pX params but the one I tested does not support it.

I also noticed that direct link is prefilling form after adding specific parameters to the url.

Hope that this question is not confusing.

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I don't know networks that do tracking without redirect. Maybe they are some, but i have not seen that.

You could do it, but by working directly with an offer owner.

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I doubt that it's doable via cake (the tracking system used by CD)... I'd say you would have to work with the advertiser directly and they would have to be able to grab this info from the url on their end. To identify your leads properly when directlinking, they would have to setup a custom lander url for you, for example.

I've also seen setups where the data collected on the LP was passed to the advertiser via API, that could be a solution too.

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CD isn´t using Cake anymore, they have a custom platform.

About the topic, I don´t think it´s possible because your traffic has to be tracked in the network somehow.

When you don´t go through the network and don´t send a unique ID from the network the advertiser won´t be able to assign the conversions properly.

Just imagine you would send traffic without your trackers click ID, then the network also couldn´t send any postback info and you wouldn´t know where the conversion is coming from.

Your aff ID could be passed through the URL to the offer page/advertiser when the URL structure would allow it but when you bypass the network it still wouldn´t be tracked there.

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Ah right, didn't run anything with them for quite a while

But anyways, since they have a custom platform, there might be more options for setting things up now... the best would be to ask them directly plutus.

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Man, this is sad. It looks like there is no simple way to achieve that other than asking publisher directly. And I’m not in the stage to approach CC submit offers yet, too bad

Thanks a lot for explaining it

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Maybe some networks have offers like this, even clickdealer MIGHT have few special ones that are not available by default. For example, Ive seen dating offers that can work with api setup and you can pass them the user email directly from the LP. Not sure about CC sweeps though, but you never know until you try to look for them. It's a pitty that we cant go to conferences now, this would be exactly the situation where it totally makes sense to meet with the reps face to face and discuss options

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Yeah, that would be great! I have one more question to you: How to pass additional data to affiliate network when I’m using Voluum? I had a quick peak at the docs and I figured out that it must be in the click url directly, so for passing „pankakes” I would need to add it like this:

https://tracker.com/click?s4=pankakes

Is that correct?

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All the requests made between your page (or the ad if you go direct) and the offer page use the HTTP GET protocol. The only* way to pass info is to the use the url string.

It can be through variables like you described, or use the URI fragment, which start with a hash. Depending of the case, one method or the other could be better.

An example of that is passing your Facebook pixel ID to the offer, so that the owner can trigger your pixel and you can optimize for conversions.

In any case, the offer owner must have configured its page to read and use the info you want to pass him.

As far as Voluum is concerned, in the redirect method, it will read the variables you pass, and generate the url for the offer based on the url template you define while you create the offer. If you want to pass info with the click, your syntax is correct. They have a page about that in their doc:
https://doc.Voluum.com/en/pass_infor...e-network.html


* edit: technically, not the only, as you could use various indirect ways such as 3rd party cookies, or store the data in your backend to make it available later. But these are more complex to implement and do not fit your use case to pass info to the offer page to be used directly.

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Yup, as jeremie explained above, you need to use the offer url to pass the info to the network.

In your example, it's a static setup, so every click will pass the same info, which is "pankakes" in your example. You can also use a dynamic tokens, either one of the default ones that Voluum provides, or define a custom one (these are the var1, var2 ...). Check the url jeremie linked for you.

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