How succesfully track visitors and add custom data.

ok so i made this little diagram to explain what we are doing. We intend to use this mostly on affiliate sites where the products we promote allow us to append subids of whatever data we want. So we basically want to append this unique user id to all our affiliate links and then later match up the revenue to each user so we can track organic traffic value and also UTM tracked media campaigns.

http://mfirthbiz.s3.amazonaws.com/dataflowv1.jpg

My question is what is the info i need to capture to later match things up. Which of the data can i get from PHP and which can I get from the clicky javascipt or is there a better way I'm not thinking of?

Also how do you prevent problems if users come from the same IP and also will whatever method you are thinking of work if the visitor returns again?

Let me know thanks

Another questions I had. Can I see custom data in the clicky interface or is it only available to view if i download it?

I just went through this whole discussion with the admins.

you need to do a query and retrieve the session ID for the user. Once you have that, you can probably intuitively figure out the rest.

Also, if you can stand it, just retrieve the session IDs in bulk once per day in one call.

hi, here you go:

http://getclicky.com/forums/?id=6592

JR

Yeah, basically attach the unique data to the user in Clicky via Javascript, then do a batch download o f all sessions each day and match up the data you stored in Clicky to your own data. Then you can use our manual data logging feature to attach goals and revenue to each session.

http://getclicky.com/help/customization/manual

Hi, I don't really understand this as i am pretty noobish when it comes to technical stuff.

You say i would want to attach a unique data to the user in clicky via javascript. How do I do that?

Also i assume that unique data would have to be passed to the check out page too. I am using clickbank so I am allowed to pass a parameter called TID to the check out page (which will appear in my clickbank account)

Which brings me to another question, how do i append this unique data to the end of my url, specifically at TID=[unique data here]

Phew, you need a more user friendly tutorial :)