Hiding Keywords From Networks with Sub Id's

[WayneSh21]

I have an offer I am promoting that won't allow custom tracking to be placed on the conversion page so I must use Sub Id's as my only way of tracking it on the keyword level. I have a keyword scrambler in place but it's really a huge pain in the ass to scramble keywords and then unscramble them again later to see my conversions. Has anyone found a better way to track keywords using Sub Id's but still hide your valuable data from your affiliate networks prying eyes?

 

[bubbles]

Make a MySQL table with two columns, one for an ID, and the other for a keyword. On your landing page throw them both into the DB but pass the ID to the merchant. Then, get the IDs from your merchant and cross reference them with your table to see whats converting.

 

[killafawk]

why are you trying to hide them from your network? are these people giving out info or what?

 

[MCRunning]

why are you trying to hide them from your network? are these people giving out info or what?

They run their own campaigns

 

[bluebobbo]

why are you trying to hide them from your network? are these people giving out info or what?

lol.

 

[killafawk]

what does that mean, they dont give me info so wtf im getting fucked either way.

 

[bubbles]

You don't want to pass your converting keywords as subids because networks could replicate your campaign. That said, most networks won't do this, but better safe than sorry.

 

[Sticks79]

You don't want to pass your converting keywords as subids because networks could replicate your campaign. That said, most networks won't do this, but better safe than sorry.

Its still very much worth it to hide your converting kw's coz it aint just
the particular network your protecting your data from.. Its also your AM
manager and whoever the fuck else works for the network that has access

to your data.

My precious ........My precioussssssssssssssssssssss
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[BigWill]

why are you trying to hide them from your network? are these people giving out info or what?

they don't need to give it out

 

[kingfish]

mysql + php pretty much what bubbles said that's how i do it

 

[WayneSh21]

You don't want to pass your converting keywords as subids because networks could replicate your campaign. That said, most networks won't do this, but better safe than sorry.

Exactly. Your own or other AM's could also easily use your data to throw up pretty profitable campaigns with other networks in no time at all. I am 100% positive their are many AM's who are doing affiliate marketing on the side or giving data to someone who is and making a cut. Your data is your lively hood in this business, you gotta protect it!

Thanks bubbles for the recommendation regarding using a db and spitting out ID instead of keywords in the query string of your destination url. Not sure why I didn't think of that myself actually since I have done many things like that before, guess I missed it.

 

[tob]

META or Javascript refresh, while using google's conversion tracking.

 

[bamboo]

yeah the AMs can use your converting keywords on their own, pass it to super affiliates, or the network could use your keywords in their "internal" campaigns

protect yourself since campaigns can be easily replicated

 

[ImagesAndWords]

Take a look at this thread:
http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate...thin-php-redirect.html?highlight=php+redirect

 

[AMSteve]

Make a MySQL table with two columns, one for an ID, and the other for a keyword. On your landing page throw them both into the DB but pass the ID to the merchant. Then, get the IDs from your merchant and cross reference them with your table to see whats converting.

Thank you for this, I was wondering the same thing.

 

[DirSP]

META or Javascript refresh, while using google's conversion tracking.

It should be a + incase the visitor has javascript disabled

 

[Spendlessly]

Anyone running the code that was linked is still passing their referring URL. Your data will be encrypted to some degree in the sub id stats - but the full referring URL will contain the ovkey, etc data. Use a refresh. I made the same mistake initially, I about puked when I found out.


header("refresh: 0; url=http://www.goatsefanclub.com");

 

[arcarc]

Anyone running the code that was linked is still passing their referring URL. Your data will be encrypted to some degree in the sub id stats - but the full referring URL will contain the ovkey, etc data. Use a refresh. I made the same mistake initially, I about puked when I found out.


header("refresh: 0; url=http://www.goatsefanclub.com");

so i was using header("location:http://www.goatsefanclub.com") which was passing my referring URL? damn. let me bend over.

so to make sure i'm doing this right...

header("refresh: 0; url="http://www.goatsefanclub.com") will NOT pass any referring url information? sweetness.

*me as a noob* - doing so is that my affiliate manager/overlord won't know where my clicks are coming from. right?

 

[mayoor_patel26@]

Make a MySQL table with two columns, one for an ID, and the other for a keyword. On your landing page throw them both into the DB but pass the ID to the merchant. Then, get the IDs from your merchant and cross reference them with your table to see whats converting.

Top notch +1