How To Dynamically Change What Your Traffic Sees
How To
| Changing the Title and Layout using Links | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Titles |
When testing custom titles it is important to clear or delete cookies between tries, as both the keyword (k variable) and the title (desc variable) are saved as cookies. Also important to note is that you should use only numbers and letters in your titles. If you want a space to appear in your title, you should use an underscore as shown below. The underscore will be turned into a space by the code. If you use a space, the click, lead, and therefore sale may not be attributed to you. Less drastically, the title may just come up as, eg, "Your%20title%20here" for an entry of "desc=Your title here".
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Layout |
Some of our sites have different layouts which you can access by using the keyword. If you do not type in a keyword (eg, filesharingcenter.com), the keyword will set itself to the default for that site. For TVUnlimited, the default is the adult layout, so be sure to set a keyword if you don't want to send traffic to an adult site. Also, if you mistype a keyword (or, for that matter, make one up), the keyword will be set to the default for that site. As when testing custom titles, when testing keywords, it is important to clear or delete cookies before trying again, as both the keyword (k variable) and the title (desc variable) are saved as cookies.
* Any word or phrase that is not listed as a keyword for that site will reset itself to this value. Similarly, entering no value at all (either, no k=, or entering k= and then nothing), will result in the keyword being set to this value. |
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Extra Information |
The keyword and title variables
(?k=YOURKEYWORD and ?d or ?desc=YOURTITLE) can be placed anywhere
in the URL after the domain. Most affiliates find it is easiest
to append them to the generated link. So, from the Get Links
page in the affiliates'
area you would get a link for FileSharing Center, for example,
that would say http://www.filesharingcenter.com/index.php?PID=[YOURPID],
you can then add the title variable (?d or ?desc as outlined above)
and the keyword variable (?k), or one or the other, or neither.
So, if your generated link is:
On most sites, you cannot use either
the ampersand (&) or the question mark (?) in your URL except,
in the case of the question mark, where it indicates the PID, the
custom title or the keyword being set. So, in this example, the
first link is acceptable, but the second link is not. The second
link will cause errors, and will probably result in clicks, leads
and sales not being
attributed to you. On some sites, allowances have been made. In FileSharing Center,
to use an ampersand in your title, you should type "spamp", which
will be turned into an ampersand the way the underscore is turned
into a space. For Filesharing Center, Archivos Compartidos and
TVUnlimited you can call a question mark in your title by typing
"spchq" (special character query). For FileSharing Center, and for FileSharing Center alone, we accept ampersands as well as question marks to set the title and keyword. Please note, however, that even for FileSharing Center, the ? character (question mark) should precede the first variable. Thus, eg., http://www.filesharingcenter.com/index.php?PID=madeuppid&desc=Made_up_Title&k=tvshows. Also, if an ampersand precedes one of k or desc (or d), an ampersand should precede the other variable, should you use it. Thus, http://filesharingcenter.com/index.php?PID=YOUPID&k=movies&desc=My_title is acceptable, whereas niether of http://filesharingcenter.com/index.php?PID=YOUPID?k=movies&desc=My_title nor http://filesharingcenter.com/index.php?PID=YOUPID&k=movies?desc=My_title are. Should you use one of the unacceptable URLs, your attribution may still work, however, the keyword and desc variables will not. |
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