Where is the tracking code on this thehut.com search box please?

**Azam.net** · 15-02-05

I've gone through the search box HTML code provided by thehut.com line by line and can't seem to find any affiliate code in it. The only reference to any affiliate code is in the 1x1 pixel, but I can't imagine that would be used to register sales generated via the search box would it?

Was wondering if somebody else could dig out the affiliate code. I have changed <> to {} because otherwise doesn't show:

Code:

{Form method="GET" 
action="http://www.thehut.com/mall/tplsearchstore.cfm" name="topSearch"}
{input type="hidden" name="store" value="TheHut"} {input type="hidden" name="page" value="1"} {input type="hidden" name="action" value="search"} {INPUT type="hidden" name="useverity" value="1"} {input type="hidden" name="checkfield" value=""} {input type="hidden" name="searchprice" value=""} {input type="hidden" name="pricerange" value=""} {input type="hidden" name="displayorder" value="descending"} {input type="hidden" name="orderby" value="relevance"} {input type="hidden" name="hidedeptmatrix" value="yes"}  
	{tr width="170"}
		{td width="10"}{img src="http://www.thehutgroup.com/marketing/images/s.gif" width="10"/}{/td}
		{td colspan="2"}
			 {select name="field" style="width:155px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;font-family:arial;font-size:12px;"} {option selected value="ALL|ALL|ALL" }All Products{/option} {option value="ALL|DVD|ALL" }-----------------------{/option}
		
		{option value="ALL|DVD|ALL" }All DVDs{/option} {option value="TITLE|DVD|DVD" }&nbsp;&nbsp;DVD Title{/option} {option value="CAST|DVD|DVD" }&nbsp;&nbsp;DVD Actor{/option} {option value="DIRECTOR|DVD|DVD" }&nbsp;&nbsp;DVD Director{/option} {option value="ALL|CD|ALL" }-----------------------{/option} {option value="ALL|CD|ALL" }All Music{/option} {option value="ALL|CD|CD" }&nbsp;&nbsp; All CD{/option} {option value="TITLE|CD|CD" }&nbsp;&nbsp; CD Title{/option}
		
		{option value="ARTIST|CD|CD" }&nbsp;&nbsp; CD Artist{/option} {option value="TITLE|CD|DVD" }&nbsp;&nbsp; Music DVD{/option} {option value="ALL|GAMES|ALL" }-----------------------{/option} {option value="ALL|GAMES|ALL" }All Games{/option} {option value="ALL|GAMES|PC" }&nbsp;&nbsp; PC{/option} {option value="ALL|GAMES|PLAYSTATION2" }&nbsp;&nbsp; PlayStation 2{/option} {option value="ALL|GAMES|GAMEBOYADVANCE" }&nbsp;&nbsp; GameBoy Advance{/option}
		
		{option value="ALL|GAMES|GAMECUBE" }&nbsp;&nbsp; GameCube{/option} {option value="ALL|GAMES|XBOX" }&nbsp;&nbsp; Xbox{/option} {/select}
		{/td}
	{/tr}
	{tr}
		{td width="10"}{img src="http://www.thehutgroup.com/marketing/images/s.gif" width="10"/}{/td}
		{td width="115"}{input type="text" required="yes" name="searchstring" value="" 
maxlength=255 size="15" style="height:20px;width:115px;margin-bottom:5px;font-family:arial;font-size:12px;"} {/td} 
		{td align="left"}{input type="image" src="http://www.thehutgroup.com/marketing/images/go.gif" width="28" height="14"}{/td}
	{/tr}
{/table}
{/form}{img src="http://www.awltovhc.com/image-295226-10364082" width="1" height="1" border="0"}

Extremely concerned, because after a few months the 3 month and 7 day EPC are 'N/A' for this particular link, even though there is a reasonable EPC for other thehut.com links. Also, just discovered that we haven't generated a single sale via the search box massive exposure.

Thanks very much

**Mogga** · 15-02-05

Yes It is perhaps safe to assume an EPC of zero means the link doesn't track.

Funny how many non standard links are like this.

Am off to chase round a few links myself I think.

**Rich** · 15-02-05

I just checked and the 1x1 definately isn't setting a cookie so yep its bust and they won't even beable to say how many users used it to workout a credit.

**Azam.net** · 15-02-05

Ouch. That really hurts and makes me very very angry. Used it as the main link on a site with 60,000 uniques a month for ages. Got sales via other thehut.com links so didn't realise something was up, though I had my suspicions. Only got around to investigating the search box today (it's not my job to analyse each and every merchant's code to see if it is tracking - I have a zillion other jobs to do).

Just discovered a few days ago that another CJ merchant's link we promoted do death didn't track.