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Did you not feel like reading the user's guide?

I thought the first 2 sections made it very clear how to go about doing it.

-Ken

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Hi Ryan,

After Black Ink 2 I will be putting more time into Optimize My Site. I plan to create a series of videos on how to install/use OMS.

Best,

Jeremy

I have hundred's of transactions per day with various networks and my OMS sub id's track fine. If your sub-id isn't passing to the affiliate network it could be one or more of the following:

1) Make sure the OMS tracking script and the page on your website that you grab the cookie is the same url, otherwise it will not work.

For example: If your tracking page is http://www.yoursite.com/oms_track/tracking.php, then you need to grab the cookie using a page with the url http://www.yoursite.com/. Otherwise, if you are redirecting to a different url you won't be able to grab the tracking cookie because it was set with a another url.

2) Make sure you are attaching the cookie to your affiliate link.

Example NeverBlue:
http://nbjmp.com/click/?s=xxxxx&c=xxx&subid=<?php echo $_COOKIE ['visitor_id']; ?>

If this doesn't solve your problem, provide some more information and I will try to help.

Jeff

Scott,

To answer your questions:

1) I use dozens of landing pages. When I upload my campaigns to OMS I have specific url's assigned to each keyword. When you export from OMS with tracking url's OMS with attach your specific destination url's that you assigned in your campaign. If you did not assign specific destination url's to your campaign OMS will assign the landing page url you fill in when you export your keywords.

2) This is the default OMS export page:

tracking page
http://mysite.com/oms_track/tracking.php (DO NOT CHANGE THIS)

landing page
http://mysite.com

OMS will redirect your tracking links to the default landing page you specify on the export page unless you have already assigned unique landing pages when you uploaded your campaign.

3) It sounds like you are using the link cloaking feature in OMS. If that is the case you do not need to append "<?php echo $_COOKIE['visitor_id']; ?>" to your affiliate link. OMS will automatically do it for you. You just need to copy and paste the cloaked link to your web page.

If is not working for you, you might not have set up NeverBlue correctly in OMS. Make sure when you set-up the Neverblue affiliate platform in OMS that for the Sub ID parameter you entered "subid".

How many affiliate links are you trying to set up for a specific merchant. Is it more than one?

I do not use the link cloaking feature in OMS. I wrote my own simple php redirect script.

I hope this answers your questions. It is kind of hard to explain in writing.

Jeff

This is the code I use for a php redirect:

<?php
$location = "Location: http://youraffiliatelink.com";
if(isset($_COOKIE['visitor_id'])) {
$location = $location . "?sub=" . $_COOKIE['visitor_id'];
}
header($location);
exit;
?>

Note, you need to change http://youraffiliatelink.com to your affiliate link. Also, you need to change ?sub= to reflect the affiliate networks sub id tracking. If your affiliate link already has a ? in it then make sure you use & with the sub id.

For example NeverBlue:

<?php
$location = "Location: http://nbjmp.com/click/?s=xxxxx&c=xxx";
if(isset($_COOKIE['visitor_id'])) {
$location = $location . "&subid=" . $_COOKIE['visitor_id'];
}
header($location);
exit;
?>

All you need to do is copy this php code only (DO NOT ADD ANY HTML OR ANY OTHER CODE)in to your html editor or notepad and save the file as a php extension. I usually save it as the merchant I am promoting. For example, acme-widgets.php. Finally, just point the link on your landing page to that file and you will be all set.

Jeff

Your welcome. If you any more questions don't hesitate to ask.

Jeff