Buying traffic (
Feeder)
Menu: overview / add trade / add
feeder (buy traffic)
Description
When you buy traffic from traffic brokers, they usually send it from multiple sources (domains). Special "
feeder tracking" method allows you to track it all under one single trade. This gives you a nice stats overview for all the traffic they send you.
Referrer productivity
Buyers (feeders) and system trades Unknown and Search Engines are expected to send traffic from multiple sources (domains). Referrer productivity stats allows you to monitor Raw, Clk TG and Prod TG for each individual source (domain).
Read all about Referrer productivity.
Add a new Buyer (
feeder)
Open "Add
feeder" pop-up: Navigate to the "overview" menu, click on the "Add trade" button and select Add
feeder (buy traffic) from the drop down menu.
Enter "
http://www.feeder.com/" into the "
Feeder URL" input. Although "
Feeder URL" must be in a valid form, the domain itself doesn't really need to exist, because "in.php" module doesn't track
feeder traffic "by referrer", it tracks it "by parameter" instead. Domain name is for your reference only.
Enter internal "skim or skim pattern" into the "Skim" input (optional). Related topic: Skimming
Feeder tracking URL: Your site is ready to accept traffic on:
http://www.yoursite.com/?ref=feeder.com
Bookmark protection: "in.php" module will only track
feeder traffic referred from somewhere (anywhere), therefore if you will simply copy-paste tracking URL into your browser's address bar, it will be ignored. Here is why: When traffic broker is sending traffic to your tracking URL: "
http://www.yoursite.com/?ref=feeder.com", visitors can potentially "bookmark" your site with "?ref=
feeder.com" parameter included. When these visitors return to your site (e.g. in a few days) through bookmarks, they will be correctly counted under system trade "Bookmarks", thanks to the "bookmarks protection". If this protection didn't exist, these visitors would be misscounted under "
feeder.com".
How to test it: Create a link to your "
feeder tracking URL" on a sub page or on another domain that you own. When you click on that link, you should see traffic counted under "
feeder.com".