How to tell when a user has filled out an affiliate offer...

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Quick noobish aff question...

How could you program your site figure out when an offer has been successfully filled out by a user?

I would like to offer members to one of my sites access to a premium section if they fill out an offer- but I am not sure how to explain the process to the programming team since I only know what I want to do, not how to go about doing it...

Any help would be great, thanks!
 


I've been looking for just such a solution myself. I've started working on a javascript that will copy data from the form fields into a second hidden form, then when the submit buttons is hit it will submit first form to advertiser and form2 to a db. I was thinking I can't really validate that they completed a sign up process, but I'll just set a delay to email them a name and password for access to my site or download or whatever. I have the copying to a second form figured out. Am working on submit part now. If I make any progress I'll let you know and you can decide if it will help you.
 
What you need to do is speak with the network or company whose offer youre going to present to the user to fill out. Since you are incentivizing the offer you want to make sure that the traffic method is accepted. If it is, you can pass a variable in the link and either have the network report back if that variable resulted in a sale or ask to place a pixel which would read the cookie for the variable so you can credit the user for the sale.
 
Thanks- I'd be interested to see what you come up with.

I am trying to find a way that makes it as easy as possible for the admin to submit new campaigns, without custom programming the script to suit each new aff program you are promoting.

Some sort of ping back from the affiliate company when the form is completed or something... (ie user fills out form from an ad insert - copeac registers the submission and lets your site know that it was done).

edit- must have posted this at the same time.. thanks mkrongel, i will look into that!
 
Although Mike brings up an excellent solution, the fact remains, companies aren't interested in having thousands of 1x1 pixels on their "Thank you" page. Therefore, only the most elite and best affiliates get this sort of treatment, from what I've seen.

So yeah, the second solution is subcampaigns for each site. A little more of a pain in the ass if you run hundreds of sites, but at least you can compare traffic logs with sales by campaign to get your EPM (Earnings Per -RomanM-Thousand).
 
ScottDaMan said:
Although Mike brings up an excellent solution, the fact remains, companies aren't interested in having thousands of 1x1 pixels on their "Thank you" page. Therefore, only the most elite and best affiliates get this sort of treatment, from what I've seen.

So yeah, the second solution is subcampaigns for each site. A little more of a pain in the ass if you run hundreds of sites, but at least you can compare traffic logs with sales by campaign to get your EPM (Earnings Per -RomanM-Thousand).
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Thanks -

Were you talking about Mike's suggestion of "you can pass a variable in the link and either have the network report back if that variable resulted in a sale " as well, or just the pixel addition?

now are there any resources out there that you can recommend describing how to automate either of the above processes? I would like to be able to add and remove campaigns easily from the site.

Or would the affiliate manager have some sort of knowledge about this and I could have the programmers get in touch with them?

Thanks!
 
This is something that's causing me a lot of anxiety, and I'd love to see more contributions to this thread. I have a site with multiple offers, and if more than one member fulfills the same offer that day, how do I know which member receives the points I award?

Also, I bought auto creditor software from the original vendor, but I don't know how to use it. I believe it utilizes something called a CSV file, but how do you reward the correct member?
 
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