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Something must be wrong with your tracking - the campaign url isn't working.

I would start by looking at your custom domain settings.

Can you please make a screenshot of the custom domains section in your tracker?

Settings (little gear icon at top) > Domains tab > Custom Domains

Please upload the screenshot to imgur, copy the bbcode link and paste it in the forum post.

Please do NOT run any more traffic before we sort this out!

(By the way: Spending $10 to test a $0.12 offer is excessive. But I can understand that it's not always possible to pause a campaign in time, and $10 is the minimum budget allowed.)



Amy

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Apologies for the slow reply, been doing my Christmas return travelling.

Glad you said that, wasn't sure if i was being lazy by putting it on pause. I thought the same thing, I've set it to distributed traffic for when I run it again so I can hopefully limit my spend better. Is there anything else i can be doing to limit spend speed?





would the lack of the SSL certificate be enough to stop tracking?

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Yikes! Just as I suspected - your custom domain wasn't set up successfully. All the traffic you've been sending through that tracking domain was wasted.

Please go through the steps in this post to set up the domain properly:

https://stmforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49465

It's not even the lack of SSL - although that should be set up as well. Just follow the instructions in the post. And please wait until you see a green checkmark beside the domain. Then let me know you're done and I'll verify your campaign link. Please don't run further traffic before I've done so.



Amy

P.S. For future reference: Please browse to the campaign link yourself each time you create a new campaign, to make sure you can reach the lander(s). If you can't get to a lander, then neither will your visitors!

And as a newbie, if you suspect something is wrong, please don't hesitate to stop all traffic and ask questions here. Having all your traffic being sent to nowhere is such a waste.


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Cheers bud, that's really helpful! it was dumb of me to try and blunder my way through, I just didn't want to take upyou guys' time.

But this has already been way more efficient. I'll drop a message once i get that tick!

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Better our time than your money

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Was this what we were looking for?



So as part of this I have shifted my custom DNS to basic DNS



But later in the guide as part of Amazon web services set up don't we change that to custom DNS and add some taken from Amazon? Do I need to go back and do that now it's verified or do I just proceed as is?

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Yes that's what we're looking for! Awesome!

Please also make sure SSL is enabled before running traffic.

Which later part of the instructions are you referring to? Are you trying to use the same domain for tracking AND landing pages? Please do NOT do that - especially if you're running pop or push - because lander domains will likely get flagged by google at one point (or multiple, depending on how much volume you run and what you run) and you'd want to minimize the impact. If you use the same domain and it gets flagged, all your tracking links would get flagged as well.

Domains are so cheap - please don't try to save those few bucks. The risks aren't worth it.


Amy


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Sooo secret time.....that was exactly what i'd been doing. But as per your advice i have now set up seperate domains for custom on Voluum and landing page hosting.

However i've requested SSL like 3 times and nothing is changing on Voluum, is there anything else i can be doing to expedite the process?

Also side note for my own knowledge, why is it we wait untill SSL is enabled?

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LOL I figured as much! Thanks for verifying.

It will take time for Voluum support to enable SSL, and given it's been the holidays I'd imagine there may be further delays. You can try to follow up with their support.

As for why wait for SSL: Some browsers (chrome for example) will notify users that the site they're about to visit is not secure, so if you don't have SSL enabled, some/many of your visitors won't reach your landing page / offer. Some traffic sources won't even accept campaign urls that don't start with https (e.g. Zeropark). So it would be best to wait until you have SSL before running traffic.


Amy


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You need to:

1) create a zone in Amazon Route 53 for your domain
2) create a CNAME in Route 53 pointing to your Voluum Domain
3) enter the 4 amazon servers that Amazon Route 53 gives you, as custom DNS servers in your Namecheap user interface

You probably missed one of these steps, which is why your are in this situation.

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@vortex ahhhhh that makes complete sense, in that case i'll refrain from touching anything untill im all legitimate.

Ohhhh it's human verified that makes sense, apologies i thought it was an automatic process, of course holidays would cause down time.

Thanks again for all your help with this!
@jeremie - Thanks bud thats incredibly concise, i'll go back over the steps again.

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@vortex So voluumm replied that SSL certificate isn't available on their basic plan. Upgrading makes things a bit tricky with what is left for buying traffic.

I know you spoke to me about tracker options previously, and this is probably a tricky question. Would you say I'm better off bearing with the negative effects of no SSL and finding my feet till I can generate a bit of profit and upgrading.

Looking at the other tracking options to try and find something I can afford that provides an SSL cert.

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You can use the .icu dedicated domain given by Voluum that has SSL.

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Oh I wasn't aware that you were on the basic plan - yup unfortunately SSL is only offered for their profit plan and up.

Like @jeremie mentioned, you can just use the dedicated domain for now. It's already secure. Just remember to choose that as the default/main tracking domain in your Voluum settings.


But SSL issue aside, the basic plan normally only allows drilling down to one level of data, which isn't enough in most cases unless you limit the testing and targeting of EACH campaign, in a way that you won't need to drill down beyond one level of data. For example: Either test landers or offers but never run multiple landers AND offers simultaneously, and only target either carrier or wifi, even just one specific carrier; only target one OS one browser etc.

It's not that you absolutely HAVE to drill down beyond one level of data, but this limitation will make your life harder.

However, if you signed up for Voluum's recent special holidays offer where they offered 3 levels of data with their basic plan, then you're all good.

If cost is the issue, consider checking out binom or funnelflux pro. They have free trials - plus I think funnelflux pro still has their 50% off first six months deal for STM members.



Amy




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@jeremie thanks for highlighting that, resolves that issue immediately!
@vortex great highlight! this is probably a silly question as I imagine most tracker plans scale similarly but are you able to drill down multiple levels on funnel flux's core plan? I can't quite tell from the pricing descriptions.

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Yup! Funnelflux Pro allows you to drill down to unlimited levels of data - for any/all plans.


Amy


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I bow to your wisdom, i've dropped out of Voluum and signed up with funnel flux. That 50% discount is just too good, plus the free trial covers me till Voluum expires.

You probs have seen this already, but for anyone else stumbling across this. Voluum have updated their STM offer to now include 3 level drill down in basic and SSL if you sign up through the link, so that's a cool option.

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Enjoy funnelflux!

And yes I've seen that offer - I've mentioned it in a post above:

As far as I remember, the offer will only be available for a limited time (maybe it has already expired) - still a great deal and much appreciated!

https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...l=1#post409121



Amy

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Yeh, it's definitely over already ahaha. Man i just can't keep up with the high flying world of affiliates!

On a slightly more topical note I've wandered myself into a new linking dilemma,

<button onclick="tellme(),window.onbeforeunload=null" style="display:inline-block;box-shadow:rgba(140,212,245,.8) 0 0 2px,rgba(0,0,0,.0470588) 0 0 0 1px inset;background-color:#e84242" id="final-button" href=https://dontwastemoney.club/action/1>OK</button>

This is a button from one of my landers but when i click it nothing happens, is anything blatantly wrong in the coding?

https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/d...ee6/index.html

That should be a link to the lander to see the source code, to see if the error lies outside the button.

I know it's unlikely i have anything anyone else would want, but is this me revealing too much information? and if so how much should i have posted?

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You added the href to a button, which is not how it is supposed to work.

On this lander, the tracker url must be inserted in the tdmnf variable (first <script> in the body).

Also you removed the audio markup, so remove ", audio.play()" in the script.

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