Hi there, I am just writing to ask for some advice. I am in the proccess of building a website which has a shopping comparison tool powered by Kelkoo which uses the products provided by them. The User on my website can browse products from the kelkoo database in an iframe situated in my website. Everytime a user is sent to my website they are given an Id number which is stored as a variable in a session on my website. I am wanting to know if there is any way possible i can track when a user clicks through the kelkoo comparison tool on my website and track the id which clicked. This is because we need to send the referrers, the users id number who clicked as they are legally incentivising their users to click through the products on our site. Hope you can help, Thanks in advance.
No, as you are showing the kelkoo site directly to them (even if it is in an iframe) then you cannot log or track their clicks as they all go direct to kelkoo rather than your server. You would therefore be reliant on their stats. Your only options are either to see of kelkoo do an API to allow you to properly integrate their content into your site or to screenscrape (but this may well be against their T&Cs)
Thanks for the reply. What we currently have is kelkoo API via OMG uk (although they don't offer tracking). A similar site www.pricelog.co.uk offers a similar service and is using Post Affiliate Pro to track leads and offer incentives or leads. Does anyone know of any affiliate software which would be able to do this? Or how Post Affiliate Pro works? Thanks, Ben
If you are using an API then I am surprised you are putting it in an iframe... you would simply have the on your page to a tracking page with a refering ID and this page then does the API call based on a passed variable and also tracks the click
Your correct about it being an iFrame Sorry. Is there anyway tracking can take place? Anyone know about Post Affiliate Pro?