Thread: Day 3-8: c)Setting Up Links for Zeydoo (Binom)

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Next, we'll be setting up tracking links for a Zeydoo offer. Let's go!





1)First of all let's pick an offer to run!

Remember in the first lesson, you were instructed to ask your Zeydoo AM for offer recommendations? Hopefully you've received some suggestions and got approved to run them!

Next, let's decide on an offer and geo to test. We want to choose a geo that has a good amount of traffic (i.e. visitors) on either or both of the traffic networks we'll be testing on (the reason for this was explained in the EXPLANATIONS section in a previous post).

a)Open Up the Traffic Chart at PropellerAds:

-Log into your PropellerAds' account: https://partners.propellerads.com/#/app/auth

-Go to the Traffic Chart: https://partners.propellerads.com/#/app/trafficChart

Make sure "Onclick (Popunder)" is selected at the top (should be by default).

b)Open Up the Traffic Chart at PopAds:

-Log into your PopAds account: https://www.popads.net/users/dashboard/advertiser

-Go to the Inventory Chart: https://www.popads.net/traffics/inventory

c)Pick a geo:

-Pick a geo that is a)a developing country, b)that has either over one million "Total Impressions" on PropellerAds, or "Raw Traffic" on PopAds, or both, c)that is accepted by at least one of the AM-recommended offers.

You can find a list of developing countries on this page (look for section "Developing countries according to International Monetary Fund"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country

(If no geo fits all three criteria on EITHER traffic network, forget about the "over one million impressions" requirement. Still, try to choose a geo that has more rather than less traffic. And if none of the AM-recommended offers have top geos that are developing countries, then just choose a geo that is a developed country - but try to avoid geos with the worst competition: US, CA, UK, ZA, AU, NZ.)

-If the chosen geo is accepted by more than one AM-recommend offers, pick ONE offer to test first. If in doubt, pick the one with the lower payout so you may be able to collect more data on smaller spend.



2)Set up the affiliate network on Binom including the postback. (Only needs to be done once ever.)

-Log into Binom. Click on the "Aff. networks" tab at the top > "+ Create".



In the "Name" field put "Zeydoo". Click "Save".



-Next, we want to set up the postback for Zeydoo, so that they can send conversions and payout data to Binom. In Binom, click on the "Settings" tab at the top, look for the "Postback URL" section, and copy the first link.



-Log into the Zeydoo affiliate dashboard at https://app.zeydoo.com/offers. Go to the left menu > "Postback". Paste the postback url you've copied from Binom into the empty field, then replace "cnv_id={network_token}" with "cnv_id={ymid}", replace "&payout={payout}" with "&payout={amount}".

For example if your original postback from Binom was:

https://binomdomain.com/click.php?cn...ayout={payout}

Your edited link should look like:

https://binomdomain.com/click.php?cnv_id={ymid}&payout={amount}

Don't forget to click the "Save" button!


3)Add the offer to Binom.

So you've already chosen a geo above, for which there is at least one AM-recommended offer. If there are more than one offers choose ONE to test first. Next we want to add this offer into Binom.

-Go to Zeydoo's dashboard > left menu > "Offers". Find your offer using the filter. The easiest way may be to enter either your offer ID or name in the "ID or Name" field.



-When you find your offers, and see "Request is approved" beneath the offer name, click on the offer name to open up the offer details.



-If instead of "Request is approved" you see "Offer locked", you'd have to click on the offer name to go to offer details, click on the "Request approval" button, and fill out the request form. If you're not sure how to fill it out, do the following:



Let your AM know you've applied to the offer so they can approve it at their convenience. When the offer is approved, click into the offer details and continue to the next step.

-Scroll to the bottom and click on "Start working with this offer".



-An "Add traffic source" window would pop up. Click "+Create new" and put any name ("1" would be fine) and click "Create", then click "Get link".







What Zeydoo allows you to do here, is create one affiliate link per traffic source. This isn't really necessary because we'll be using the tracker's tokens to keep track of this - so we can just use this one affiliate link for all traffic sources.

-Back on the offer details page, you'll see the generate affiliate link in the "Link Settings" section. Click on the copy icon to copy it.



-Go to Binom > "Offers" tab > "+ Create".



-In the "New offer" window, paste the offer link you just copied from Zeydoo into the "URL" field. You'll need to replace the tokens in the link. Let's say your original link is:

https://bainushe.com/link?z=1234567&...mid={CLICK_ID}

Replace {SOURCE_ID} with {trafficsource}, and replace {CLICK_ID} with {clickid}, like so:

https://bainushe.com/link?z=1234567&var={trafficsource}&ymid={clickid}

(Note: Any spaces in the link should NOT be there - it's a vBulletin glitch.)

-For the "Name" field, copy/paste the offer name from Zeydoo.

-For "Affiliate network" select "Zeydoo"".

-For "Country", set to "Global" if the offer accepts traffic from more than one geo, or set this to a particular geo if the offer only accepts traffic from a single geo.

-For "Payout($)" checkmark "Auto".

-You can look over other settings, but leaving them at default should be fine.

-Click "Save".





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We are now ready to set up our first campaigns at a couple of traffic sources - which will be the focus of the next lessons!




Amy

Originally Posted by cesare

Hi Amy,

When I get the offer link from zeydoo, a warning message recommend not to use the tracker. this happens for both offers that I've selected. should I avoid these offers and ask other to my support agent?

Can you please show me a screenshot of the warning message? And could you please PM me the offer number(s)?

And have you asked your Zeydoo AM about it?

I'll get to the bottom of this.



Amy

Originally Posted by cesare

This is the message:

Anyway I asked to my support agent and she said that is not a problem if I use tracker.

Ah OK! You can pretty much disregard that message. Here's what it means in simple language:

"Links are targeting sensitive and will NOT open under wrong target IP."

This just means that if a user is not from a geo/device/carrier/etc. - that are accepted by the offer, they will not be able to see the actual offer. Instead, they would be redirected to another offer - one that DOES accept the user's geo/device/carrier/etc.

This is the case with most networks, not just Zeydoo.

"We HIGHLY recommend not to use tracker. This offer works with minimal redirect mode. It will perform better without trackers."

The disadvantage of using a tracker is that it adds another redirect to the process, which will add to the wait time for the user to see the offer.

The advantage of using a tracker is you'll get a lot more data that can help you to optimize the campaign.

Again, this is true for any affiliate offer.

This is why a lot of veteran affiliates will bypass the tracker and run traffic to affiliate links directly, once the campaign has been optimized.

Hope that helps!



Amy