Quick start: your first campaign
From sign-up to a working tracking link in five steps: traffic source, offer, campaign, stream and a test click.
This guide takes you from a new account to a tracking link that records clicks and conversions. It takes about ten minutes. Every step has its own guide if you want the details.
Before you start
- An account: start the 7-day trial and confirm your email.
- The offer URL from your affiliate network, or your own landing page.
- Access to the traffic source where the ad will run.
Five steps
- Add a traffic source. Open Sources, create a source and pick the preset for your platform. The preset fills in the platform's macros, so campaign, ad and placement IDs arrive with every click.
- Add an offer. Open Offers and paste the offer URL from the network. Put the click ID macro in the parameter the network reads, for example
?sub_id={click_id}. See Landing pages and offers. - Create a campaign. Open Campaigns, create one, choose the source and set the cost model. See Campaigns and tracking links.
- Add a stream. In the campaign, add a stream and attach the offer (and a landing page, if you use one). A stream is a routing rule; one stream without filters is enough to start. See Routing with streams.
- Copy the tracking link from the campaign and put it in your ad as the destination URL.
Test before you spend: open the tracking link yourself. You should land on the offer, and the click should appear in the click log within seconds.
Get conversions back
Paste the postback URL from the tracker into your affiliate network, with the network's click ID macro. When a conversion happens, the network calls that URL and the tracker adds the conversion and payout to the click. See Postbacks and conversions.
Next steps
- Connect your own tracking domain before you scale.
- Split traffic by GEO or device with more streams.
- Read the numbers in reports and cut what does not pay.