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Originally posted by Yug
The new tracking system we have migrated to is completely different right from the ground up. First of all , the old SharedEarnings 3.0 system was a static user id system. This means that you signed up for an account and then used your 'username' as the code in your links. For example, if your account name was "webmaster", then your link would have looked like this.
http://www.interracialz.com/?webmaster
On the new system , we have moved to a dynamic link system, meaning that you sign up to the program and get a username and password. Once you have that password, you can log in and then the program generates an excrypted link for you on the fly. For example
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You always make
http://www.interracialz.com/?webmaster
generate
http://www.sharedearnings.com/_5ad6f...3fd482604239e/
on the fly, and if it is a matter of creating records you could populate your entire database with all the old webmaster new signups if their account doesnt exist.
To me it looks like you're referencing a MD5 hash to a username (webmaster) account anyways so this should be no problem.
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We discussed the merits of running a script/database to be able to handle the link substitution, but we unfortunately did not have the time , or database grunt to handle these kind of transactions, whilst running the hit tracking and sales tracking simultaenously.
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Should have spent the money on a programmer to work with you on this. Granted it is a lot of work but you would have saved yourself a lot of angry people.
The people who provided the software could do this for you too and probably should.
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As soon as we found out about the change, we imported all the webmaster accounts into the new system automatically and all webmasters were emailed notifying them of the coming changes.
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This should make the above things i mentioned 1000 times easier.
As for the rest of the post, i really couldnt care as im not a 'traffic' kind of guy. This doesnt mean you can't implement what i said above, you still have the ability to get the signups back being tracked correctly. I would go for it!