Hi all

You will notice in your affiliate accounts a new report. The Click Ref report reports to you the clicks that have occurred from the Click Refs that you are using.

Click Ref (Click Reference) is Affiliate Window’s functionality for allowing an affiliate to pass a value to the affiliate link. This reference is then reported alongside any sales that the affiliate link generates.

Example:
http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=3&id=45628&clickref=a4uforum

Affiliates could use Click Ref to track:

• Which of their users are generating clicks and transactions.
• Which search engine keywords are generating clicks and transactions.

If you manipulate the data contained in the Click Ref report with the Commission Details report you can get some really powerful information such as the individual Click Refs that are generating clicks and how many of those clicks have resulted in transactions and then the amount of commission earned. If you combine this data with your own stats or your search engine marketing provider stats you can get an end to end picture of what your visitors are doing.

It as a basic report at the moment but something that will be built upon.

Thanks

Chris

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