Tracking and Copeac nooblet question.

[cheeba]

First I feel like an idiot having to ask this but I'd feel stupider not asking. Ive tried searching here and on google and on copeacs site already.

To track on copeac do you use plain subid=x after your affiliate url?

If anyone could just post what a tracked copeac url as whole looks like I'd really appreciate it.

Danka.

 

[csmajor231]

there are 2 types of links you may get out of the system. The subID goes either at the end of the link or where the o= is

affiliates.copeac.com/sw/2280/601/subidhere
or
Untitled Documentsubidhere&p=0

 

[cheeba]

Thanks alot. Finally got this sorted out.

 

[slackerguy]

I have a couple of questions along these lines, too:

Let's say I have a site that members login to. I want to take that login name and use it as a subID for the COPEAC affiliate link so I can track clicks/leads on a user basis. So if their username was "wfrocks", I'd want to somehow have affiliate links they click be changed to "affiliates.copeac.com/sw/2280/601/wfrocks" for example.

Is it difficult to use PHP to "attach" their username as the subID portion of the affiliate link?

Also, if I'm able to do this...can I verify that they actually completed the affiliate offer by looking for that subID on COPEAC's website? Is there some report that will show my completed leads and their corresponding subIDs ? I will be promoting offers that allow incentives and I don't want to pay out the incentive I'm offering without being able to verify they actually completed the offer successfully & I was paid for it.

Am I making sense with these questions? I can try to clarify more if necessary.

 

[slackerguy]

I found a possiblity for doing what I just asked. Just wondering if someone could verify this would work.

If I have a login session variable called $username that I get from a login page, then I can just structure my links like this:

<a href="affiliates.copeac.com/sw/2280/601/' . $username . '">


Will that work? Is there a formatting problem with that link and the PHP variable?

Many thanks :bowdown:

 

[ChickenHole]

ya that formatting is whack unless you are already delcaring it as a var string

like $url = '<a href="http://www.millnicmedia.com/is/the/best/' . $username . '">click here</a>';

Then you can echo out $url somewhere like
<b>To make tonnes of cash <?=$url?>.</b>

Or much more simply just do this (which is what i think you mean to do)

<a href="http://www.BestCPANetwork.com/offernum/CD1234/<?=$username?>">Eat my shorts</a>



FYI - <?=$variable_name?> is the Short tag for

<?PHP echo $variable_name; ?>

 

[slackerguy]

Or much more simply just do this (which is what i think you mean to do)

<a href="http://www.BestCPANetwork.com/offernum/CD1234/<?=$username?>">Eat my shorts</a>

FYI - <?=$variable_name?> is the Short tag for

<?PHP echo $variable_name; ?>

That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks! I wanna be able to track by subID for COPEAC leads and that will allow me to throw the $username variable into the link as the subID automatically. Kick ass :2gunsfiring_v1: Thanks again.