Newitts Feed Question

[loquax]

In the Newitts product feed... when clicking on a link

e.g. http://newitts.at/(your code here)/IT009743.html

the link that is arrived at contains the legend..

&etp=tradedoubler&WT.mc_id=tradedoubler

I presume this doesn't effect tracking, but wonder why it's there at all?

Jason

[Dave Brown]

Jason,

As I said on the phone, we can't replicate this problem - ie. when we try this TD code is not there. And you don't have the problem today.

The only thing that I can suggest at this time is that it may be a wierd issue related to how the newitts cookie in your browser is handled if you have followed both a TD and a buyat link.

We'll have a further look to see if we can reproduce the problem - please let us know if it re-occurs

Dave

[nkernick]

Jason

I cant replicate this with my codes, suggest you try another PC.

Nick

[Rich]

I've had a look and can't be sure either way.

When you follow a standard TD link it takes you to http://www.newitts.com/tradedoubler.asp which sets/unsets the following cookies: -
Set-Cookie: BUYAT=; expires=Mon, 06-Jun-2005 14:35:32 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: ARC=; expires=Mon, 06-Jun-2005 14:35:32 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: AW=; expires=Mon, 06-Jun-2005 14:35:32 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: UKA=; expires=Mon, 06-Jun-2005 14:35:32 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: TD=set; expires=Wed, 06-Jul-2005 14:35:32 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDCACTCSAR=PABPPFCCHCPFIKAHBBPOBIMM; path=/

It then forwards you to http://www.newitts.com/index.pasp?etp=td which sets/unsets the following cookies: -
Set-Cookie: MSCSProfile=61E4CECF7275066FD87B9817DA5865CB4D7A3D E19DB84749ABC5DFD3937F8B2F0F4B470616AA58442C59E79F AA661162188D187E4F7DDCAD56BAB58D17C9A302AB7AAB8E34 0117416AAEAEC2329B908D6FAA795FE8DEB71AF178F3BB7613 DCE742D42E30D0565AB79105A3E3D1EABC1927CAC9C7E44DAF 10826C92C1665E980C7B22CB17F57936AD; expires=Fri, 15-Jan-2038 00:00:00 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: TD=set; expires=Wed, 06-Jul-2005 14:35:34 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: UKA=; expires=Mon, 06-Jun-2005 14:35:34 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: CampaignHistory=912%2C752%2C677%2C1281%2C1280%2C12 75%2C1278%2C1313%2C1283%2C1276%2C1310%2C1312%2C130 8%2C1274%2C1309%2C1319%2C1311%2C1277%2C1279%2C1433 %2C1430; path=/
Set-Cookie: AW=; expires=Mon, 06-Jun-2005 14:35:34 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: BUYAT=; expires=Mon, 06-Jun-2005 14:35:34 GMT; path=/

If you then follow the Buy.at deeplink shown above it takes you straight to http://www.newitts.com/product/IT009...dfz5z6z2z950td which updates the CampaignHistory cookie but doesn't alter the other ones - ie the cookie named TD still equals 'set'.

There is no way to know if the 'TD' cookie still hanging about would affect tracking.

Hmm, I've just checked a buy.at link to the home page and that redirects to http://www.newitts.com/buyat.asp which sets/unsets the following cookies: -
Set-Cookie: BUYAT=set; expires=Wed, 06-Jul-2005 15:01:28 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: ARC=; expires=Mon, 06-Jun-2005 15:01:28 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: AW=; expires=Mon, 06-Jun-2005 15:01:28 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: UKA=; expires=Mon, 06-Jun-2005 15:01:28 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: TD=set; expires=Mon, 06-Jun-2005 15:01:28 GMT; path=/

Which looks a lot better.

Looking at the details on buyat it looks like the product feed deeplinks should get redirecting to something like http://www.newitts.com/buyat.asp?url...uctID=IT009743, which they aren't, but also that format doesn't quite work at the moment but its close.

So I can't reproduce Jason's problem, but it looks like there is another possible issue.

just trying to help

[Paul Fellows]

Rich

Thanks for the info. Just to confirm we are looking into this now with the merchant.

Cheers

Paul

[renegade]

Well it's been a while (nearly nine months) and the deeplinking method on the merchant program page today still doesn't work - I've submitted a ticket, just wondering if anyone has a deeplinking format that works and tracks yet?

[Pete Cheyne]

Hi all,

I'm a new recruit at Buy.at (since January) and some of the work ill be doing is related to this.

I checked the Newitts feed this morning and noticed that the structure of their deeplinks have changed. I have updated the text in your managemnt areas to reflect this. To clarify, previously the deeplinks have been working fine - it is just since they changed the structure of the deeplinks that old structure has not been working.

For deeplinking using the new system:

To link to product AE-011:

http://newitts.at/AFFID?DURL=http://www.newitts.com/product/AE-011/Apollo_Training_Discus.htm&WT.mc_id=dfz5z6z2z944ba &etp=buyat

Note that the URL of the product (Apollo_Training_Discus.htm) must be included. This differs from the old deeplink system.

Both AE-011 and Apollo_Training_Discus.htm must change for each product.

&WT.mc_id=dfz5z6z2z944ba&etp=buyat must go at the end of each DURL.

Hope this clears things up!

Cheers,



Pete