Clickbank TID in order form

rickybuitrago · Joined: Sep 5th, 2008 Posts: 2

Hello, as I searched through forums I learned that you can check out if tracking is set up and working if you can see in the clickbank order page your nick followed by a TID that if it converts it will allow you to go to your tracking202 account and just check the info this TID gives you (keyword, ad etc.).

This make a lot of sense, but the problem is that after I set up everything (I included JS code in LP and included the Landing Page Outbound Tracking Affiliate URL), when I go to my LP and then click on this links, when it takes me to the order form, I see my affiliate nick but this is not followed by a TID meaning I wont be able to see which ID converted so I wont be able to go to tracking202 and check the info related to each TID.

What could I be doing wrong?

Thanks,

Ricky

T202Steven · Joined: Dec 4th, 2007 Posts: 2400

Did you happen to enter the subid syntax (or in this case the tid syntax) in step 3 of your affiliate URL correctly already? Do you have a doctype that could be breaking the code or any metarefreshes. Are you running all your pages on a .php or .html file? I need more information to be able to troubleshoot this. If you can, could you copy your LP source code and send it back. Block any private links you wish, I just need a general understand of how its set up to see if there is a reason the tids are not coming through.

shermanchoo · Joined: Nov 19th, 2008 Posts: 78

does this solve the problem?

http://affiliatecode.publishercode.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=[subid]

So you type only the below portion into the Tracking 202

http://affiliatecode.publishercode.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=

cpprmnbi · Joined: Nov 22nd, 2008 Posts: 7

Hi,

I've got the same problem, the subid is not given to the Clickbank page.

Here is my setup:

Affiliate URL:

http://affname.merchantname.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=

Landing page:

*****************************

<html>

<head>

</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

*****************************

Landing Page Destination URL (for AdWords):

http://www.mydomain.com/subfolder/index.php?t202id=833&t202kw={keyword}

Expected result on bottom of CB checkout page:

[affiliate = affname.subid]

Observed result on bottom of CB checkout page:

[affiliate = affname]

So the subid is missing here as well.

First I thought it might be a length problem (subid longer than 8 chars), but watching the redirection URL closely (which only shortly appears in the browser URL line) I could clearly see that the subid is *missing* in the redirection to clickbank.

Can anybody help with this? Without the subid all the Prosper system does not make any sense as the subid (that's at least my understanding) is the 'heart' of the whole system.

Thanks in advance

Peter

cpprmnbi · Joined: Nov 22nd, 2008 Posts: 7

Hello again,

I found a workaround for the TID problem.

Here are the steps I took:

1) Changed my landing page to this:

*****************************

<html>

<head>

</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

*****************************

2) Created the file redirect.php in the same directory as the landing page. This file only consists of the php code given on the "Get LP code" page (it's called "Landing Page: Outbound PHP Redirect Code").

After these modifications I get this result on the bottom of CB checkout page:

[affiliate = affname.subid]

Voilá, mission completed ;-))

Hope this is helpful for someone.

P.S.: Sorry if I posted into the wrong Subforum, I'm talking here about the self hosted app...

cpprmnbi · Joined: Nov 22nd, 2008 Posts: 7

Question to Wes:

Is there maybe a php version of the "Inbound Javascript Landing Page Code" available?

Reason for my question: I would *love* to have my landing page look like this:

*****************************

<html>

<head>

</head>

<body>

<?php

// Prosper202 Inbound PHP Landing Page Code

some php code here...

?>

</body>

</html>

*****************************

T202Wes · Joined: Oct 20th, 2007 Posts: 4437

cpprmnbi wrote:

Question to Wes:

Is there maybe a php version of the "Inbound Javascript Landing Page Code" available?

Reason for my question: I would *love* to have my landing page look like this:

*****************************

<html>

<head>

</head>

<body>

<?php

// Prosper202 Inbound PHP Landing Page Code

some php code here...

?>

</body>

</html>

*****************************

We actually just tried this acouple of times and we weren't able to get this to work, the problem is it REDIRECTS TO FAST, and the javascript doesn't get to load in time, and also that with this setup we might as well use a direct-link setup instead.

cpprmnbi · Joined: Nov 22nd, 2008 Posts: 7

T202Wes wrote:

We actually just tried this acouple of times and we weren't able to get this to work, the problem is it REDIRECTS TO FAST, and the javascript doesn't get to load in time

That's really a shame :-((

But to be honest I do not really understand: I am thinking of a php code which only writes all the necessary tracking information to DB, and only after this is done the JS redirect will kick in which is actually perfect timing.

> and also that with this setup we might as well use a direct-link setup instead.

I thought about this as well, and I think there is actually a big difference to the direct-link setup: I'm quite sure that in this setup Google AdWords would consider this page as the landing page (and giving QS for it in case it has some content below the

line, whereas in the direct link scenario Google AdWords will consider the final target page as the page to evaluate QS for. And the bad part here is that the 'Non-Duplicate-Links' will apply in this case which is really bad when you are promoting affiliate products.

T202Wes · Joined: Oct 20th, 2007 Posts: 4437

All you have to do then, is have google redirect to your page like normal.

And then have ur content, and then redirect now to another page with

the t202 javascript installed. that may work

unless your trying to do direct linking.

you could try a meta-refresh with a 1 second delay