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Flexible destination tool

Fri, 10/19/2007 - 20:50 — codemerc

As far as I can see you don't have an equivalent of the CJ Flexible destination tool or the AuctionAds 'URL converter'. 

Is this the case?

Do you plan to have something similar?

 

 

‹ My thoughts
Fri, 10/19/2007 - 21:32 — admin

URL destination link creator

Thanks for your interest.  We do currently have this in development.  Our tool would convert a single link as well as a list.  Are there any requirements that I am unaware of other than the link must be converted to look something like:

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-1751-2978-71/1?SID=Website%20account%20name&AID=5463217&PID=...&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo-games.ebay.com%2F
Sat, 10/20/2007 - 06:37 — codemerc

That looks fine, although I

That looks fine, although I would strongly suggest you have a user defined portion of the SID that you just pass through to your reporting so users can track where the clicks come from.

 

I'd be intereste to test this as soon as it's available.

Sun, 10/21/2007 - 01:37 — admin

First look at the Destination tool

I just finished integrating the URL Destination Tool code into the system...  It seems to do the trick and the click tracking is stored in the same table for your account access... although, you have to give me a few hours to put the user clicks table into Account Settings » Impressions - Clicks to display this data.

About the SID being part of the URL, it's in there -- trust me.  Actually, if you take the value encrypted part of the URL string for "click" and use a base64 decode on that, you can see the separate values between the "|||" separators.  There are three parts to the "click" value:

  1. particular destination link ID, or ad ID
  2. Your SID value is your [user ID value]+"_"+"Website Account" to insure that it would be unique.
  3. the URL for the redirect

For now, here's the URL: http://auctionreporting.com/destination_tool.html