It is important as an affiliate marketer to be able to collect as much data as possible from your traffic in order to optimize your affiliate marketing campaign. I recently discussed how to optimize your 7Search campaign. Most seasoned affiliate marketers will do this using a 3rd party tracking system. It’s not always required, but it’s usually a good idea.
For example, at PeerFly we provide you with quite a bit of information about your traffic on your PeerFly Reports page. You can see how many clicks you got (unique and total), how many conversions you got, your EPC, and your conversion rate. You can even break those statistics down by subid and have the option to export your click statistics into a CSV file. However, there would still be benefits to using a 3rd party tracking system. For example, with Prosper202 you can easily track your campaigns ROI (something I’ve always found useful). In order to do this you will need to be able to track your conversions on your 3rd party tracking software.
There are a few ways to track your conversions using PeerFly and a 3rd party tracking system, but the method that most people use and the one that seems to work best is by placing a tracking pixel on the offer on PeerFly. Luckily, PeerFly has made it very simple for you to do this!
Add your pixel to the advertiser’s conversion page
If you have picked out an offer you want to run and have your pixel ready to go simply go to the offer page on PeerFly. Once there, scroll down to the red Tools tab. Click that.
The Tools menu should be showing. Click the Place Tracking Pixel link.
Now, you should be at the page where you can actually place your tracking pixel. Simply copy and paste your pixel into the box. If you have more than once pixel you can use them both, simply put a space between each one.
Once you push submit your pixel will be automatically added to the offer page so whenever you get a conversion we will notify your 3rd party tracking software.
If you have any trouble placing your pixel or would like me to check to make sure it has been added properly just let me know. Also, if you’d like me to do a test lead to make sure everything is setup properly that is fine (do not do a test lead yourself). Let’s make some money!
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Good stuff i also did one video about setting up prosper 202 on my blog for my reader 🙂
Umair Ahmed
Hello. i applied in your network 1 week ago but i m still waiting for approval. please accept my application and allow me to join your netwok
Drago
Hey Luke i really need your help look message from Charlie
Thank you for applying with PeerFly. Unfortunately, at the interest of our advertisers, we’ve chosen to deny your application. We follow a strict set of criteria when approving applications to ensure quality traffic for our clients. As the industry changes, we may be more open to allowing you into our program.
What now?
Thank you.
Luke
Email me and I’ll have your application re-reviewed.
Roni
Luke, this may seem obvious to everyone else on the planet, but where did you get the pixel script? You state, “Now, you should be at the page where you can actually place your tracking pixel. Simply copy and paste your pixel into the box…” But where do I get the script from so that I can paste it? And how do you know exactly what to put in the SUBID boxes? Thanks!
Sundeep Vaish
Tracking pixel is provided by your tracking software like Prosper202 or at times it is also available through your traffic source, like adwords, 7search, pof etc.,and you could track your conversions there too. If you so set it up, you could even track conversions at CPA network, Tracking software & Traffic source level simultaneously by passing pixel from one to another.
There is no exact about subids. You insert the values or variables you wish to track with your conversions, clicks, costs etc. for campaign optimizing and fine tuning. Depending how much information you wish to gather, you could use one or more subids.
Deelip
I Luke,
Do you guys actually help new affiliates ? 🙂
I just spent about 75USD sending traffic to peerfly from POF. The first 50$ was for a email submit and I only had 2 conversion earning little over 3$. I learned few lesson and spend another 25$ on a better converting offer with better payout. I had 3 conversion and had a pretty good CTR in POF, 0.15 in average. But my problem is, I couldn’t figure how to track which ad is converting and which isn’t. Is that something you can help me with? I am doing direct linking. Also, what time are you available in IM’s?
Luke
You should add a subid to each of your links so you know which campaign is the one that is converting for you. I am available usually from 8-5pm EST Monday-Friday on Skype and in the afternoon on AIM/MSN/Yahoo.
Deelip
I did manage to setup prosper 202 and run it with your offer. But Its not tracking the leads hence I don’t have any conversion reports 🙁
Luke
If you placed the pixel properly it should fire when you get a lead on PeerFly. If the non secure pixel is not working try the secure one.
david
does prosper 202 work with hostgator shared hosting or do i need to upgrade? i heard there may be problems with shared hosting for prosper202. need some wisdom before i throw money at hosting unnecessarily. thanks. david
Luke
I haven’t had any issues with it, but upgrading couldn’t hurt.
TrackingPixel
Hello! When I paste my tracking pixel URL (from CPVlab), does it have to be https or is it enuff (from Peerfly’s point of view) with http? I have a https server for my tracking and my LPs. Sincerely.
Luke
Both should work fine.
Santanu
How to confirm whether a tracking pixel (provided by prosper/tracking202 etc.) has actually been placed on the offer conversion page? I’ve tried to look into the source code of the offer conversion page, but did not find it there! I’m a newbie in this system. Someone please advise how i can confirm placement of a tracking pixel.
Luke
It’s placed within our PeerFly pixel, so as long as you’ve copied and pasted it correctly into the box it will fire on the conversion page when you generate a lead. If you’d like, you can email me and I can do a test lead for you.
Mark Warner
Is the PeerFly pixel an image pixel or a javascript pixel? If image pixel, that what is the src? Can we find the peerfly pixel within the source code of conversion page?
Luke
We have both depending on what the advertiser’s preference is and we also do server-to-server postbacks. Depending on how we are tracking, you may be able to see our pixel on the conversion page.
Ginesta
Hi Luke,
it’s me again. I know I forgot one thing. I forgot to ad 7search conver. code to my offer. which I created 2 days ago. I thought I could go ahead and ad it know. But when I click on “tools” the “pixel box” to put the code in was not there. can you help me with this? thanks. Can help with testing leads for me. (I am sending leads directly to the offer) not a landing page. thanks again.
Luke
If we are using server to server tracking with an advertiser there is no pixel so you will not be able to place one. In this case, don’t worry about your 7Search pixel. Everything will still track fine on PeerFly 🙂
Samantha
Hi Luke, I’m using CPV Lab. I put ” http://mywesite.com/adclick.php?subid=%subid1%&earned=%commission% ” to the Postback URL. But it’s not work, There’s no tracking at all. Please advice. Thank you.
Luke
What are you putting for your affiliate link in CPVLab?
david
this post is helping me. wondering if you have any info on using bevomedia with peerfly. thanks luke
Luke
Yes, you should be able to setup Bevo with PeerFly pretty easily.
Srikanth
Hello Luke..
I have applied for affiliate account on peerfly. But I got declined. May be because I am from India. But if given a chance I can make it big on peerfly.
Look forward for your response.
Luke
Check this article: https://www.lukepeerfly.com/peerfly-application-denied
Danica
I am setting up several campaigns for one offer with 7search. I am not sure how to track all of these through 202 with the one offer. I feel like I need a basic refresher course on subids… I read your article and watched the utube video, and am still confused. Help please 😉
Luke
Simply pass a variable into the c1 for your campaign ID 🙂
Danica
Soooo… Still confused, I see c1 but what variable? And ‘campaign ID’ refers to what exactly? And is all of this done in 202 or do I need to differentiate on PeerFly as well? Because I thought that the subids on PeerFly dealt with the keywords and the affiliate only… See! Still confused! Ha!
Hayat
Hello Luke
The offer I am using, does not support pixel tracking. I should setup Postback. Can you please send me more information about postback?
Luke
Yes, you would need to setup postback. I guide a guide on how to do it with Prosper202 here: https://www.lukepeerfly.com/setup-peerfly-campaign-prosper202
Tomasz
Hi Luke,
how to set up the offer (Peerfly+7search) with Volu-um tool? Is it good solution for newbie?
Luke
Voluum is pretty cool. I’ve been testing it lately too.
James
Luke, with the tracking pixel, is it possible to obtain the IP of the user that converted?
Luke
Your tracking software can detect the IP. You can also do it on Search Clicks in your Reports: http://i.imgur.com/TtcVcbu.png
JULIANA
Hi Luke
just got approved by Peerfly, but i get confused…how we set up the peerfly link in CPVLAB? i set it up , it redirects to a link called as linkjumps. i read your tutorial on this but i still get confuse
Luke
You just add your PeerFly affiliate link with ?s1= to the end of the URL 🙂
Lee
I want to place tracking pixel on some Peerfly’s offer, but always got message said the offer does not support the ability for you to place your own pixel, please advise!
Luke
In that case you will need to setup a postback. Most tracking software has postbacks available now too 🙂
Dominik
Is it neccessary to add the tracking pixel to convert? Because im running a campaign on 7search but the offer does not suppy tracking pixel on peerfly.It says i have to setup a Postback but I got a bit confused with the SubIds
Dominik
Almost every offer on peerfly does not support the trackingpixel it says i have to setup a postback instead but i dont know how to setup the SubIDs to show conversions correctly
Lambert
Let said I have setup my tracking pixel/postback on peerfly, If i had the same offer but different traffic source, do I need to create another tracking pixel/postback and setup once again on Peerfly.
that will mean I will have 2 tracking pixel/postback on tjhe same offer.
Please advise.
Neeraj Kumar
Hi luke,
Great info!! Here I have checked some offers that doesn’t support your own pixel, here I have to set postback URL (pixel and post back have same functionality but works on different ways while tracking). Suggest from where I can get Postback URL in 7seach !!!
Thanks
Mostafa
The Best Article I have read ever
Thank You Luke
i have a aquestion .. how can i do the same with hasoffer system you know that there is no more offers accept tracking pixel there?
thanks in advance
Luke
I am not sure how to do it with HasOffers. Happy to hear you like the article though! 🙂
Mostafa
okay Luke
but you know that most offers in peerfly now didn’t accept pixels
can you tell me why ? or how can i solve it using any other method ?
of course i know that i can track conversion via any tracking solutions
but i mean is there any way to add pixels in the offer page ?
Jim
yes I use this kind of tracking on peerfly, but sometimes they now allow it. You need setup postback, but honestly dunno how :S