NATS cookie question

**TMM_John** · 03-03-2008, 06:17 PM

Originally posted by NinjaSteve

When you send to a tour using nats like this

http://tourdomain.com/?nats=MzE3doWTf

and they link to other pages without your nats ref code (page2.html, join.html etc) do you still get credit for the sales?

If I am fully understanding you then no the sale would not track as it is not hitting the script that sets the cookie and would log your IP/session. I am not 100% sure, but my initial thoughts are no. If you need any further feedback please feel free to contact me.

**borked** · 03-03-2008, 10:42 PM

NinjaSteve,
If the original link was to
http://somedomain.com/track/MzE3doWTf/
or
http://somedomain.com/ttrack/MzE3doWTf/
or something like that which did a redirect to http://tourdomain.com/?nats=MzE3doWTf
then yes, it will track fine. the nats code doesn't have to be passed in the URL at all, but is often done that way to make affiliates feel warm and cosy. However, like PBucksJohn said, it must pass via the NATS tracking script to set the cookie.

**NinjaSteve** · 03-04-2008, 06:43 PM

John, this is what I mean:

I click this link
http://somedomain.com/track/MzE3doWTf/

I'm now on the tour page where the link in the address bar looks like this
http://t1.somedomain.com/main1/?nats=MzE3doWTf,0,0,0,0

Now, to get to the 2nd tour page I click "continue" and that mouse over looks like this, and on that 2nd tour page the address bar looks like this
http://t1.somedomain.com/main1/main_p2.php

So it seems a cookie was set from that first page I clicked. Is this correct?

**NinjaSteve** · 03-04-2008, 06:46 PM

Originally posted by borked

NinjaSteve,
If the original link was to
http://somedomain.com/track/MzE3doWTf/
or
http://somedomain.com/ttrack/MzE3doWTf/
or something like that which did a redirect to http://tourdomain.com/?nats=MzE3doWTf
then yes, it will track fine. the nats code doesn't have to be passed in the URL at all, but is often done that way to make affiliates feel warm and cosy. However, like PBucksJohn said, it must pass via the NATS tracking script to set the cookie.

Thanks, I think that answers my question.

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