help with hippojump tracking

[monkfunk]

I set up the hippojaw tracking and hippojump all successfully.

In test mode, I pass the id=test and it passes a random variable, but no where do I see the word 'test' as an id in the email, please see a screenshot here:
http://skitch.com/createchicago/n3aur/gmail-hippojaw-redirection-testing-result-keylessguy-gmail.com

I don't know if later on somewhere it will show me the real 'test' and it is just generating a random tracking id.

thanks for your help!

~ Eric

[edyodis]

Eric,

I think you misunderstand what you are seeing... the hippojump passed an actual tracking ID on your hoplink to Clickbank (this is what they look like and each jump has a unique ID so you can correlate every visitor click thru with the sales that result. It wasn't a random ID for test purposes).

The email showed you what the actual tracking ID was, so that you could go pull up a TID report in Clickbank and check that the unique tracking id was properly logged in Clickbank. This would verify that the hoplink you programmed into your hippojump actually works.

I dont think the id=test in your example does anything, because I believe that it is by having your domain in test mode on the hippojaw Web Sites control panel that causes hippojump to send you the email.

So, again you would go to the hippojaw Web Sites page and look for two things...

1..  the column titled "Receiving Tracking Info?" should say  "yes" for your domain. That means the hippojaw tracking link on your landing/sales page is working. (you could also verify this by looking for the big red graphic on your landing page when your domain is in test mode.

2.. look at the little checkbox under the coumn titles "Test Mode?"  While it is checked, you would expect to get the email each time a hippojump to your domain is executed. That email will show you the TID that was attached to the link so that you can go into Clickbank and verify that you got a hop with the TID equal to the tracking id in the email. 

Once you verify that it's all working, you need to go back into Hippojaw and uncheck the test mode indicator, otherwise you will get an email every time the hippojump is executed, and also it puts a big red display on your landing/sales page where you put the hippojaw tracking links while in test mode to show you that it is working properly as well. You probably don't want either of those things happening once you have verified the hippojaw tracking / hippojump tracking is working properly.

I'm not sure where you got the idea to add the id=test to your hoplink, unless it was from the coding example intended for non clickbank hoplinks.  The example shows how you would append the "?id=" to the end of your hippojump URL so that the target web site that has its own tracking scheme will pull the tracking id provided by hippojump and log it properly.  Then you would later manually retrieve it and upload back into hippojaw for correlation with visits, hops, conversions, etc. 

But that is a special case for non-clickbank affiliate programs that allow you to post a tracking id.  Hippojump already knows how to add, and hippojaw knows how to extract the clickbank TID tracking codes automatically. It's when you use a non Clickbank affiliate program that you have to mess with manually coding the tracking id on the hippojump.  So I'm thinking you may have been confusing when to add the "id=" to your hoplink URL.

hope this clarifies and not confuses.