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Traffic Source: Propeller ads
Affiliate Network: Big Bang Ads
Landers: 2
Geo: ZA
Budget: $30
Vertical: Sweeps


So I somehow screwed up my landing page and all of the clicks landed on a 404 page.

My lander URL had my Offer Click URL at the end of it.

Ex. https://www.examplelander.com/www.offerclickurl.com

I'm not sure how this happened as I only put the Offer Click URL on the CTA buttons.

But these were the stats.




I've corrected the landers and will see how it goes.

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Not sure if I understood what you wrote correctly, but... You need to put just the tracker's click url on the CTA buttons, the tracker will then redirect the click to a particular offer, based on the campaigns settings. Do not try to add offer urls into the LPs, when using a tracker.

BTW: you probably missed the "https" part of the code on top of that, that's why the two urls merged.

Whenever you start a new campaign, it's a good idea to copy the campaign url and test it yourself, to make sure all works fine. Additionally, always watch the stats closely when a campaign starts, the absence of LP clicks or offer clicks would signal a problem early in this case.

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Yeah what @matuloo said. Steps before launching campaign:

1. Fire up VPN with country selected (in your case South Africa)
2. Post your campaign link into an incognito window to make sure it resolves (loads and works right)
3. Click though and make sure the offer path works and gets to the advertiser
4. Repeat until all landing pages have been checked if you are rotating
5. Clear your stats in the tracker for that specific campaign and then launch on the traffic source

Takes only a few minutes to do this but you end up making sure things are good to go.

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Update:

After correcting the landers I started to get traffic to the offer.





The data says 0 conversions, but I checked the aff network and saw that I got 5 conversions.

I took a look at my postback and noticed something.


Does this look off?


This is what CPV Lab support told me to put in my offer URL:

&s2={!subid!} <------- CPV Lab

but this is what it looks like in the aff network

subid={aff_sub2} <------ Aff network



Also, the payout for each conversions is 0.25 cents but my CPC is 0.32 cents.

Should I continue to run the campaign after I fix the postback URL problem?

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@anthonyh

I used CPVLabs for many years. In order to get postbacks working, you need to copy the S2S pixel from CPVLab...It will look like this (obviously your domain would be changed to your CPVLab URL):

https://yourdomains.com/adclick.php?subid=subid-here

When you made your offer link you sent it via the S2 parameter like this: &s2={!subid!} which CPVLabs told you to append to your offer link. Now at the network your postback would look like:

https://yourdomains.com/adclick.php?subid={aff_sub2} because it's getting the subid you sent with S2 earlier. They just store it as add_sub2 so when the conversion happens they send that back which has the subid (click ID) of the use you sent. You can also post them back manually always by pasting the subids one at a time at the end of your S2S link and pasting the link in your browser. If subid ssdas909302 converted then paste

https://yourdomains.com/adclick.php?subid=ssdas909302 directly into your browser worst case if you don't know how to do it any other way and your tracker will update. Hope this helps.

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Yes, this definitely helps.

I didn't know you could post them manually.



The transaction ID would be the click id right?

I see that you CPV also allows you to upload via IP address but I'm not sure if I'm supposed to put the session IP or Conversion IP.

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You don't need to use the IP to fire the postback, it's not really necessary to know the IP of the converted click, unless you're doing some kind of IP targeting. Simply launch/load the postback url in your browser with the clickID appended. Those transaction IDs do look like clickIDs generated by a tracker indeed, so those should be the ones to use... or are those transaction IDs generated by the affiliate network? I'm not sure what the clickIDs generated by cpvlab look like, @quintyfresh can you confirm?

When manually firing conversion, keep some things in mind:

- Load the url just ONCE, some trackers MIGHT record multiple conversions if you load the url several times. Give it some time for the conversion to show, it doesn't have to be instant.
- The conversion will be recorded on the day that you load the url, even if the click happened on the previous day or sooner, keep that in mind when checking the stats. In other words, if you fire all the conversions today, your cpvlab stats for yesterday will still show 0 sales, even though the clicks were sent yesterday.

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@anthonyh You can also just ask your affiliate manager to fire a test conversion for you - if it shows up in your tracker then you'd know conversion postback is set up properly.



Amy

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Got it. I'll definitely do this.

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Yea they are generated by the affiliate network.

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