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Revision as of 17:01, 3 November 2011
Contents
Add a Tracking Domain
A tracking domain is the domain that is used for your linkcodes.
Offers
You can create new offers by going to the Offers Admin and click on the "Add Offer". Once created it will prompt you to enter details about the offer, the default landing page for the offer, geographic targetting for the offer and the marketing type. Once created, you can also edit your offers by clicking on the "Edit Offer details" in the Offers Admin.
- Offer Name
- Short Name - this is used for short name style linkcodes (affiliate.commission.offer.landing_page.1.2.3.4.5.6)
- Offer Launch - the date you would like your offer to launch
Create Landing Pages
You will be asked to specify the details of your default landing page when creating an offer, but you can also create additional landing pages for your offer by clicking on "Add New Landing Page" action icon in the Offers admin. Additional landing pages can be used for the purposes of variety, special promotions or any other reason, providing your affiliates with multiple ways to promote your offers. The required fields for creating a new landing page are:
- Landing Page Name
- Short name - this is used for short name style linkcodes
- url - this is the url for which your landing page is located
- tracking domain - this is the domain that is used for your linkcodes
Creatives
Creatives are advertising tools that affiliates use to promote your offers on their sites and can be managed in the . Every time a visitor to your offer clicks on a creative link it counts as a page view for that affiliate and every time one is displayed it counts as an impression for the affiliate. There are multiple different types of creatives that affiliates can use to promote your offers including:
- Banners
- Downloadable and Embedded Videos
- Page Peel Ads and IM Popups
- Half/Full Page Ads
- Mailing Ads and Content Zips
Commissions
The Commissions Admin is used to set up how you provide compensation to your affiliates. There multiple different ways you can choose to pay your affiliates:
- raw page view
- unique page view
- qualified page view
- sale (flat rate and/or percentage)
- continuity (flat rate and/or percentage)
- CPM (1,000 impressions)
Linkcodes
Linkcodes are links that contain the offeritcode for the affiliate that can be used to direct visitors to a specific landing page. Affiliates can filter the linkcodes for which they have access by specifying a certain Offer, a Commission that they are enrolled in and Languages for which the Landing Pages are available. After clicking the "Apply Changes" button, at list of Landing Pages based on those filters will appear along with linkcodes for those landing pages.
