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Hi. Installed TE few days ago, but have some troubles with Skim. Firstly want to say what I want from this couple (TE+WP)
Have trade-blog site. Daily make posts with "Own Galleries" and "Plugs"
Plugs - One big thumb on main-face site and linking to site with that post, example: - for this blog is OWN Gallery
SO we making link to it, with 100% and using "purl" link-type, example: Here: es=100 = 100% skim in any way, because we ned strong 100% users going to that site to look on this gallery. Tested, working correctly! This clicks counting Clk T and counting on Out T on trader sexblog.com
Continuing...
Now about Own Galleries. We have gallery with images, posted on any Free Image Host service. Our with gallery is looking and simple post, with big thumb on main page and more thumbs we will see when clik on main page on this bbig thumb. So, here example: - is own gallery on our blog, to this gallery we need to have 100% skim, but we don`t need to use "purl" tracking, because is gallery, we need here use as on this example: And every thumbs in this gallery with have 60% skim, with links type: So is correct ways, but I have problems. When user going-out to gallery on that link: this click is count only to Clk TG, but if he going-out to trader - this click counting to Clk TG and Clk T, why?
Same is happens when user clicking in TopList and on link with 0% skim (just thumb with link:). Maybe I make some mistake?
And how I can make, for not enter skim-value on every thumb in gallery, or maybe if I want to use my own click-scheme, as simple - 100,100,60 - it will work correctly? Where I neew to write this parameters?
Thanks!

Hello Leva,

because of the language barrier, i didn't understand everything you wrote, so i will answer what i understood:

1. First of all, you didn't understand the purpose of the "es" parameter. Description of the "es" parameter from the manual:

Abbrevation "es" stands for external skimming. If you are using internal skim on your site, you will probably find "es=1" parameter very useful. If "es=1" parameter is found in the out link, internal skim will be ignored and external skim will be used instead. Using this method, you can specify a different skim for some special links on your site (e.g. to track clicks on the sponsor links).

It doesn't matter, if you set es to 1 or to 100 or whatever number or char. "es" can only be "on" or "off". If you add it to the URL, e.g. es=1 (or es=2 or es=bla or es=anything) ,then it is "on", if u don't add it to the URL at all, it is "off". Read the description of what "es" does above very carefully please. If you are using internal skim, but you want to send 100% to gallery, you should use this syntax for example:
/cgi-bin/te/o.cgi?s=100&es=1&u=http://www.gallery.com/
but yes, in your case u can remove "s=100", because the default skim value is always set to 100. Here is what u can use:
/cgi-bin/te/o.cgi?es=1&u=http://www.gallery.com/
2. /cgi-bin/te/o.cgi
If someone clicks on this link, he will be sent directly to one of your trades in the database. Clk T => Clicks to Trades
Clk TG => Clicks to Trades & Galleries (both together OR if you like it, overall clicks). So if Clk T increases it is perfectly normal that Clk TG increases as well

regards,
Jim