How to Place “SID” In Comission Juction?
October 30, 2007
Stumble it!Every affiliate marketer knows how important is to track their clicks/conversions, and Comission juction facilitate a way to track this. I have searched on Google and many webmaster forums to see what type of questions there are, and many asked this question. “How I place “SID” in Comission juction” and there is no real answers, some of them don’t have even a reply, hope this can help for those that are searching for this information:
The SID must appear as a name value pair in the query string of an advertiser’s link. The SID value must be placed in the SID= position after the following tracking code of an advertiser’s link:
http://DOMAIN/click-596513-10338?
Standard Tracking Link Example (Legacy)
http://DOMAIN/click-596513-10338?SID=ShopperID_Value
Standard Tracking Link Example (JavaScript)
< . script type=text/javascript src=”http://cjtrackingdomain/placeholder-12345?sid=shopper1285” .>< . /script .>
Customized Destination URL Example (Legacy)
http://DOMAIN/click-1245-10338?sid=shopperID_12897&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecj%2Ecom
Customized Destination URL Example (JavaScript)
< . script type=text/javascript src=”http://cjtrackingdomain/placeholder-12345?sid=shopper1285&
URL=http%3a%2f%2f
www.advertiser.com%2fproductpage.html” .>< . /script .>
And here some common questions about SID:
Q: Where does Commission Junction place the SID?
Commission Junction does not generate the SID. We track and report on any SID(s) publishers append to the tracking code of their advertiser links.
Q: Are the reward sites the only sites that use the SmartRewards program? Who else might use it, and what is required?
Reward sites or Super Publishers are the most common users of the SID or SmartRewards program. As mentioned previously however, any publisher who can dynamically generate and append the SID to the tracking code of their advertiser links can utilize this feature.
Publishers may use SID tracking, for example, to provide their users with loyalty points, cash back incentives, charity donations or to track newsletter campaigns.
Q: How will the code dynamically read my user’s login?
It is up to the publisher to dynamically generate and add the SID to the tracking code of their advertiser links. Commission Junction reads and reports on this name value pair. Commission Junction does not generate the SID.
Q: When a user logs in, will I have to hard code the SID to capture the information?
The publishers’ site needs to dynamically generate the SID. During click-through, the SID then needs to be appended to the tracking code of their advertiser link. It is up to the publisher to decide how to implement the dynamic creation of their SID’s.
Q: How long has Commission Junction supported SID tracking?
Commission Junction has always supported SID tracking.
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October 30th, 2007 at 8:45 am
Hi I came across this post and thought I would ask you if you can help me with a problem I have had with one of the advertisers on cjunction- Fulcrum gallery. They wrote me an email saying I was not affiliated or allowed to put an ad on my site - I had signed up with them perfectly legally and had recieved a welcome letter from them when I first joined them some months back- do you think they are trying to get out of paying me because I was getting too many clicks?reply appreciated
October 30th, 2007 at 8:57 am
Hello Viv,
I don’t thing that the clicks have something to do here, but there are some advertiser that looks at the EPC (earn per click). I had a similar issue with netfirms, they said that I had too many clicks but no conversion. The best thing to do is to email the affiliate manager of that program and ask directly what is the problem. A question, you still are an affiliate with them? or they terminated you?
October 30th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Hey GoogleLady, great post as usual. I get most of my offers through CJ and was actually wondering how to add a tracker.
On a similar note, can you confirm me that you can track the keyword searched by your visitor on Google when they clicked on your add by using {keyword} in the destination URL?
http://www.mywebsite.com/landingpage.php?keyword={keyword}
If this is true then you could store these keywords into a database:
and then append the keyword’s record key (let’s say that ‘dog breeding’ refers to record #11) to your CJ affiliate link:
Does that make sense?
October 30th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
oops the example aff. link disappeared from my preivous comment:
$link = http://domain/click-1245-10338?sid=keyword_id
October 30th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
That’s correct Stephane! You hit the jackpot
If anyone has a basic knowledge in PHP and MySQL can create a small script that can track your keywords converstions easily (and if you want to try to create one I will be more than happy to test it as well). What about creating a plugin to wordpress blog and making a small statistic in the admin panel so those that use their blogs to sell with affiliates can track the keywords conversions? (great idea no?)
October 30th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
I gotta say that creating such a plugin would be really cool. I’ll start working on this tonight.
I’ll email you when the first version’s ready.
October 30th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Stephane that will be great
November 1st, 2007 at 11:49 am
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October 30th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Okay:
I get the code part that we add to every link.
Lets say that you buy a product “X” through my site every month. How do I register you a a loyal customer through my site?
you are client number 123
There has to be a way for you to log in and register through my site with number 123 before you buy through a commission junction link with my site.
I dont get the dynamic part. How and where do I get you to tell my site to tell CJ that your number is 123?
Whew.
Thanks