Campaign tracking for CCBill affiliate webmasters?

[Jim_Gunn]

Is there a capability for CCBill affiliate webmasters to use campaign tracking but not directly on their own site? For example, would an affiliate webmaster be able put up specific paid text links on 3rd party sites to test out different traffic sources with different codes that all link to one's main blog which itself has a number of links to various sponsors. The idea being that I would like to be able to track which free or paid links on third party sites resulted in traffic and more importantly a subsequent sale to any one of the CCBill sponsors on my blog. If there isn't a way to do this directly in the CCBill admin, is there a relatively easy way to do this?
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[MediaGuy]

Just create an affiliate account to your own program with zero payout and name it after the location you intend to post it.

:D

[Mutt]

it's a seriously lacking feature with CCBILL's affiliate software

but since u can merge accounts with CCBILL u can create as many accounts as you want so u can create some new accounts and get new affiliate code for each and use one affiliate code on one site- another one on a 2nd site and so on

[Jim_Gunn]

Originally Posted by MediaGuy

Just create an affiliate account to your own program with zero payout and name it after the location you intend to post it.

:D

Either I don't understand your reply or this doesn't answer my question. I am not promoting my own program- I have a free site- a blog- that promotes a number of CCBill sponsors. I also have various paid or free links to my free blog that I would like to track the effectiveness of. So if I have a text link on some third party's site pointing to my free blog which then in turn refers a surfer to a sponsor, is there a way for me to track whether the sale was generated through one of those specific links out there in the world on sites that I do not own that linked to my own blog or whether the sale came from say a type in or other referral directly to my blog rather than one of those specific paid or free links Ima trying to track.

[Jim_Gunn]

Originally Posted by Mutt

it's a seriously lacking feature with CCBILL's affiliate software

but since u can merge accounts with CCBILL u can create as many accounts as you want so u can create some new accounts and get new affiliate code for each and use one affiliate code on one site- another one on a 2nd site and so on

Hmm, that sounds like a hassle but even if I did that I am still not sure that solves my problem since the links on the blog itself will not change. I am not sending the traffic directly to the sponsors from the paid text links on the third party sites.

I am instead sending surfers from various free or paid links to my own free blog and then the surfers who are coming from all different places are clicking on the same links to my various sponsors. I am trying to ask if there is a way to track from the sources, eg, each specific free site -> my blog -> sponsor. Any way to do this?

[MediaGuy]

Ah ok I see gotcha wrong there sorry...

From what I can tell CCBill's referring urls are posted only when that link has created a sale.

So you can't really count the unproductice links that way, especially if you have many.

And the type-ins and bookmarks are impossible to track unless they're coming from a news feed (like RSS) or mail box.

Finally your cross-site traffic is pretty much trackable with any regular Statcounter type thing, but which one creates a sale pretty much can't be vouched beyond guesstimation.

You'd have to find a way to bring together external links-in with local to target points of sale - basically, three different beastlies with different parentage :P

But if someone has something worked out I'd LOVE to learn it...

:D