Question about NATS ref id codes

[Shoehorn!]

Does effect the tracking if you have more to the URL after the ref id? For example, say this was the actual site linking code - whateversite.com/tour5/?nats=NKS411jc6Nw&tour=tour5, but something gets added at the end, so it really ends up being something like this - whateversite.com/tour5/?nats=NKS411jc6Nw&tour=tour5/maintourindex/

In other words, as long as the ref code is in place, does it matter what follows it, or will that fuck everything up?

[Shoehorn!]

No one has any idea about this?

[TMM_John]

Shoehorn,

Are you adding this extra stuff on purpose to try to do something different with NATS or is it being added by accident or unintentionally?

Thanks

[Shoehorn!]

Shoehorn,

Are you adding this extra stuff on purpose to try to do something different with NATS or is it being added by accident or unintentionally?

Thanks

Hey John, kind of both, can you ICQ me and I'll explain it? 72458277.

[TMM_John]

Hey John, kind of both, can you ICQ me and I'll explain it? 72458277.

Done
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[llporter]

Please share. I'm also intereted. I'd like to disguise the code so surfers don't chop it off to fuck me

[TMM_John]

Anything being tacked onto the end is a bad thing for sure. I wasn't sure if he was trying to do it on purpose and wondering if NATS could support more data being passed or if a redirect was adding something for some reason.

In general it's not a good idea to add anything to the query string as it could quite possibly cause problems.

[Shoehorn!]

Thanks for getting ahold of me and helping me out man, thats great support.

[llporter]

Anything being tacked onto the end is a bad thing for sure. I wasn't sure if he was trying to do it on purpose and wondering if NATS could support more data being passed or if a redirect was adding something for some reason.

In general it's not a good idea to add anything to the query string as it could quite possibly cause problems.

Ok - so I have a question if you don't mind. If a surfer clicks on a link to my sponsor and chops the 'nats' code off the end do I get the sale because the cookie was already placed or do I lose it?

I wonder the same thing about some of the ccbill linking codes in which the sponsor makes sure the last thing in the link is a cc=123456

Thanks

[TMM_John]

Ok - so I have a question if you don't mind. If a surfer clicks on a link to my sponsor and chops the 'nats' code off the end do I get the sale because the cookie was already placed or do I lose it?

I wonder the same thing about some of the ccbill linking codes in which the sponsor makes sure the last thing in the link is a cc=123456

Thanks

Do you mean if the surfer chops the link code off after they click your link and are redirected to the tour?

[llporter]

Do you mean if the surfer chops the link code off after they click your link and are redirected to the tour?

Yes. That is the only way they could do it unless the c&p right?

[TheDoc]

Script wise, and paysite wise.. I think its ok if you setup your codes like..

nats linking code . com/kjasldkfjNATSID/?yourvar=blah
Like if you want to pass a var in to pull up a different girl on the tour.

Or make sure its the last var in your own code like ?blah=1?nats=code
If you are trying to pass your NATS ID around your site so it can build linking codes.

[TMM_John]

Yes. That is the only way they could do it unless the c&p right?

Yes, you know how crafty surfers could be tho

NATS uses cookie tracking, URL tracking and IP tracking to determine the affiliate to credit. So if they chopped the code off the URL it would still have the other two methods to fall back on. If those two failed also of course it would be an issue (but it's would be very very very rare that all 3 would fail).