202 conversions pixel misfiring

nitro_dee

nitro_dee

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PPVers listen up...

I've came across a really strange problem recently while trying a few SMALL PPV campaigns on TrafficV. I ran 4 different offers, 2 from one niche and 2 from other seperate niches and everytime the affiliate networks showed less conversions that i'd tracked on 202.

I was direct linking the offers and with one of the worst offers i tracked 10 conversions and the affiliate network tracked 2 conversions. At first i thought the advertiser was scrubbing so i swaped the offer, same thing and still wasn't sure. I was pissed off but thought i'd have one last shot running a related offer with a small time private network just to be 100% sure and guess what... i tracked 1 conversion and the affiliate network tracked 0.

At this point i was like WTF and decided to look through the conversions a little closer, i then noticed that it was the same ip ranges that was firing my pixel everytime. I traced the 3 or 4 ips on dnsstuff.com and they traced to Trend Micro which is a antivirus/firewall/security company. It looks to me that any users which have the TrafficV software installed along with trend micro antivirus fire my pixel as a conversion but im not exactly sure what the hecks happening.

I've paused everything up and contacted TrafficV to see if they can give me some insight into whats causing this and i'll update this thread when i hear back.

I've banned the ip blocks from my tracking but i'm still a bit freaked out about restarting any ppv campaigns.

:1zhelp:Has anyone else had similar experience and how'd you go about solving it?
 


The antivirus software is keeping the network's pixel from firing. Since your tracking domain isn't as high profile, yours isn't blocked.
 
Dullspace said:
The antivirus software is keeping the network's pixel from firing. Since your tracking domain isn't as high profile, yours isn't blocked.
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Right so i should ask the affiliate networks to check with the advertiser for the conversions from the ip addresses and then have them credit me?
 
Interesting, so trendmicro proxies all of the users HTTP traffic through their own network...
 
xanol said:
Interesting, so trendmicro proxies all of the users HTTP traffic through their own network...
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At i guess i think they probably redirect the user to some warning page or something which would be hosted on their own network but then again I’m not sure. It may be worthwhile to install Traffiv and Trend Micro on some shitty pc and recuperate (that the right word) the problem.
 
if you're going to do ppv at high volume, do yourself a favor and take all the 202 code out of your page and just track using subids appended to the end of your url ?subid=asdf

you'll thank me later.
 
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