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Voluum - The Ultimate Guide!
UPDATE: Here is the entire Voluum Guide by Servando from the Dojo. Voluum - The Ultimate Guide!
(Update by Admin)
Hello Fixers. What's up? I've been doing CPA Marketing for 6 months already and learned a lot of stuff from this forum and others. It's time to give something back. It wasn't difficult to understand what kind of guide or case study I should make, because many people were requesting this already.
*This is the part 1 and 2 of a 7 part series to master Voluum and learn how to track and optimize your campaigns. If you're not a tech guy or you're having problems to get started because you don't know how to track tokens, subids, postback URLs and more, this guide is FOR YOU. The whole guide is available INSIDE THE DOJO, Along with some landing great pages and other mobile case studies to get you started.
Voluum
I receive lots of Skype requests, questions and messages to help people setup their trackers, as that seems to be one of the most "difficult" part for many to get started. You need some basic tech knowledge, but it's not that difficult. However, if you're just starting with CPA marketing, getting used to talk about tokens, Postback URLs, tracking pixels, subids and all the rest can be quite overwhelming.
I use Voluum, and it's a great tracker. But because it's kind of new, there's very little information and documentation on how to install it and use it. Voluum has some information and tutorials in their page, but it's probably not enough for beginners, so here's the ultimate guide.
Don't worry, I didn't use trackers 3 months ago. And learned everything in 2-3 days after asking a few questions to some affiliates. You can setup and learn everything in 1 day if you want. While this guide is exclusive to Voluum tracker, it will probably help you use any other alternative. Some affiliates say you learn tracking, not a tracker.
I'll cover:
Keep in mind this guide might grow in the future, so I'll try to keep it updated and answer all of your questions every day.
Let's get started!
Why Voluum?
Voluum is one of the best trackers available at this moment. I originally started using Voluum because they have a free trial that ends on September, so I had 3 months to learn how to use it, Master it and decide if it was worth it.
I know it’s worth it and many super affiliates are using it. But there’s a good reason behind it aside from the fact that it’s still free for a few days. Get your FREE Voluum account here: Voluum.
It’s cloud hosted.
CPVLabs and Prosper202 are very well known tracking solutions in the affiliate Marketing industry. Both of them are self hosted, which means you need to buy a server (VPS or dedicated) and install it by yourself in it. You get the data, you need to clean it, you need to give some maintenance all by yourself.
Mobile traffic wasn’t big enough, so nobody wanted to track phones, ISPs, carriers and other mobile factors a few years ago, but Mobile is big nowadays, and without the correct information you’ll just spend your budget without being able to optimize your campaigns.
There are 2-3 well known mobile trackers. Voluum is one of them, and there’s iMobitrax (from the IMGrind forums, now R.I.P.) and STM Mobile tracker. Both of them are self hosted and require a good VPS to get started.
Because Voluum is cloud hosted, you don’t need a VPS to get started. Now don’t get me wrong. you’ll still need a VPS to host your landing pages, but you’ll need less resources and the software by itself gets updates and maintenance without distracting you.
Some people prefer a self hosted tracker because they want their data to be 100% theirs, but Voluum has a very secure system, and honestly, you want to focus on learning how to use a tracker and optimize campaigns, instead of thinking if someone could hack into your account and steal your data (that can also happen with a self hosted installation).
Anyway. Voluum is still free for the next 30 days and the Noobie plan has a $0 monthly cost with up to 100,000 events. That should be enough to get you started and try a few campaigns.
Requirements:
If you’re going to use Voluum, you just need a few things:
That’s it.
How to install Voluum
Go and grab a domain name at Godaddy or your favorite domain registrar. I’m going to use Godaddy in this example, but Voluum has a quick guide on how to install it with Name.
Let’s say I went ahead and grabbed the domain: mobileoffer.com
I’d probably buy it with domain privacy because I don’t want everybody to know who I am when using spy tools.
I’ll use that domain for the whole guide, so please look carefully.
Open your GoDaddy dashboard, log in and go to your “Manage my Domains” area.
You’ll find all your domains there. Remember not to use this domain for anything else other than tracking. Don’t install a blog or setup a redirect or anything. Leave this domain clean for tracking purposes only.
You’re going to CNAME your domain to your Voluum’s account. If you haven’t got a Voluum’s account sign up here.
If you have an account, login and click the small gear icon at the top right corner to go to your settings and go to the “Domains” tab. There, you’ll find your own Voluum domain.
It will be something like: abcde.trackvoluum.com
The first 5 letters are unique to your account (abcde). Copy that link.
Now go back to your domain name settings on Godaddy and click the “DNS Zone File” tab. Now click the “Add record” option:
You’ll need to fill up your settings:
It should look like this:
Click “Finish” and then there will be a “save settings” button in your domain dashboard. Make sure you click that one or the changes won’t be saved.
That’s it. Now you need to link your domain to your Voluum’s account, so go back to the Domain settings in Voluum and add “track.mobileoffers.com” to your main domain.
Leave “Cloaking domain” as redirectvoluum.com and click Save.
That’s it. Your Voluum tracker is installed and almost ready to use.
You can do the same process and have 2-3 tracking domains as backup domains. This is useful if for some reason 1 domain is having problems or if you want to do Double Meta refresh redirects. This is a way of cloaking your links and I won’t cover it at this point. Also, it won’t be included in the Noobie plan later when Voluum goes public, so you’ll need to pay $99 per month.
If you’re reading this guide you’re learning the basics of mobile and tracking, so focus on testing a few campaigns and learn how to optimize and track everything before you think about cloaking.
Give it a few hours before actually running a campaign. The TTL setting at go daddy was set at 1/2 hour, but I’d wait 2 hours just to be sure everything works correctly.
You can check if everything is working in the same “Domains” tab by clicking “Verify DNS settings” next to your main domain. It will become green if everything’s working and good to go (as shown in the last image).
Congratulations!
You have installed your tracker and you’re 1 step closer to become a mobile affiliate. Now it’s time to take action.
UPDATE: Here is the entire Voluum Guide by Servando from the Dojo. Voluum - The Ultimate Guide!
(Update by Admin)
Hello Fixers. What's up? I've been doing CPA Marketing for 6 months already and learned a lot of stuff from this forum and others. It's time to give something back. It wasn't difficult to understand what kind of guide or case study I should make, because many people were requesting this already.*This is the part 1 and 2 of a 7 part series to master Voluum and learn how to track and optimize your campaigns. If you're not a tech guy or you're having problems to get started because you don't know how to track tokens, subids, postback URLs and more, this guide is FOR YOU. The whole guide is available INSIDE THE DOJO, Along with some landing great pages and other mobile case studies to get you started.
Voluum
I receive lots of Skype requests, questions and messages to help people setup their trackers, as that seems to be one of the most "difficult" part for many to get started. You need some basic tech knowledge, but it's not that difficult. However, if you're just starting with CPA marketing, getting used to talk about tokens, Postback URLs, tracking pixels, subids and all the rest can be quite overwhelming.
I use Voluum, and it's a great tracker. But because it's kind of new, there's very little information and documentation on how to install it and use it. Voluum has some information and tutorials in their page, but it's probably not enough for beginners, so here's the ultimate guide.
Don't worry, I didn't use trackers 3 months ago. And learned everything in 2-3 days after asking a few questions to some affiliates. You can setup and learn everything in 1 day if you want. While this guide is exclusive to Voluum tracker, it will probably help you use any other alternative. Some affiliates say you learn tracking, not a tracker.
I'll cover:
- Why Voluum?
- Requirements
- How to install Voluum
- How to add traffic sources, affiliate networks
(INSIDE THE DOJO) - How to setup Postback URLs from different networks (Peerfly, Hasoffers, Cake, Mundo Media, etc.)
- How to add offers and setup custom variables and subids
- How to split test offers and landers
Keep in mind this guide might grow in the future, so I'll try to keep it updated and answer all of your questions every day.
Let's get started!
Why Voluum?
Voluum is one of the best trackers available at this moment. I originally started using Voluum because they have a free trial that ends on September, so I had 3 months to learn how to use it, Master it and decide if it was worth it.
I know it’s worth it and many super affiliates are using it. But there’s a good reason behind it aside from the fact that it’s still free for a few days. Get your FREE Voluum account here: Voluum.
It’s cloud hosted.
CPVLabs and Prosper202 are very well known tracking solutions in the affiliate Marketing industry. Both of them are self hosted, which means you need to buy a server (VPS or dedicated) and install it by yourself in it. You get the data, you need to clean it, you need to give some maintenance all by yourself.
Mobile traffic wasn’t big enough, so nobody wanted to track phones, ISPs, carriers and other mobile factors a few years ago, but Mobile is big nowadays, and without the correct information you’ll just spend your budget without being able to optimize your campaigns.
There are 2-3 well known mobile trackers. Voluum is one of them, and there’s iMobitrax (from the IMGrind forums, now R.I.P.) and STM Mobile tracker. Both of them are self hosted and require a good VPS to get started.
Because Voluum is cloud hosted, you don’t need a VPS to get started. Now don’t get me wrong. you’ll still need a VPS to host your landing pages, but you’ll need less resources and the software by itself gets updates and maintenance without distracting you.
Some people prefer a self hosted tracker because they want their data to be 100% theirs, but Voluum has a very secure system, and honestly, you want to focus on learning how to use a tracker and optimize campaigns, instead of thinking if someone could hack into your account and steal your data (that can also happen with a self hosted installation).
Anyway. Voluum is still free for the next 30 days and the Noobie plan has a $0 monthly cost with up to 100,000 events. That should be enough to get you started and try a few campaigns.
Requirements:
If you’re going to use Voluum, you just need a few things:
- A Domain Name (I used GoDaddy)
- A VPS if you want to setup a landing page. This one isn’t necessary to setup your account and direct link, but you’ll need it later if you want to improve your conversions.
That’s it.
How to install Voluum
Go and grab a domain name at Godaddy or your favorite domain registrar. I’m going to use Godaddy in this example, but Voluum has a quick guide on how to install it with Name.
Let’s say I went ahead and grabbed the domain: mobileoffer.com
I’d probably buy it with domain privacy because I don’t want everybody to know who I am when using spy tools.
I’ll use that domain for the whole guide, so please look carefully.
Open your GoDaddy dashboard, log in and go to your “Manage my Domains” area.
You’ll find all your domains there. Remember not to use this domain for anything else other than tracking. Don’t install a blog or setup a redirect or anything. Leave this domain clean for tracking purposes only.
You’re going to CNAME your domain to your Voluum’s account. If you haven’t got a Voluum’s account sign up here.
If you have an account, login and click the small gear icon at the top right corner to go to your settings and go to the “Domains” tab. There, you’ll find your own Voluum domain.
It will be something like: abcde.trackvoluum.com
The first 5 letters are unique to your account (abcde). Copy that link.
Now go back to your domain name settings on Godaddy and click the “DNS Zone File” tab. Now click the “Add record” option:
You’ll need to fill up your settings:
- Host: can be any subdomain you want. I’ll use track.mobileoffer.com so I wrote “track” here
- Points to: abcde.trackvoluum.com (Replace abcde with your own code)
- TTL: 1/2 hour
It should look like this:
Click “Finish” and then there will be a “save settings” button in your domain dashboard. Make sure you click that one or the changes won’t be saved.
That’s it. Now you need to link your domain to your Voluum’s account, so go back to the Domain settings in Voluum and add “track.mobileoffers.com” to your main domain.
Leave “Cloaking domain” as redirectvoluum.com and click Save.
That’s it. Your Voluum tracker is installed and almost ready to use.
You can do the same process and have 2-3 tracking domains as backup domains. This is useful if for some reason 1 domain is having problems or if you want to do Double Meta refresh redirects. This is a way of cloaking your links and I won’t cover it at this point. Also, it won’t be included in the Noobie plan later when Voluum goes public, so you’ll need to pay $99 per month.
If you’re reading this guide you’re learning the basics of mobile and tracking, so focus on testing a few campaigns and learn how to optimize and track everything before you think about cloaking.
Give it a few hours before actually running a campaign. The TTL setting at go daddy was set at 1/2 hour, but I’d wait 2 hours just to be sure everything works correctly.
You can check if everything is working in the same “Domains” tab by clicking “Verify DNS settings” next to your main domain. It will become green if everything’s working and good to go (as shown in the last image).
Congratulations!
You have installed your tracker and you’re 1 step closer to become a mobile affiliate. Now it’s time to take action.
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