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<b>How do I track affiliate conversions using Sub-IDs?</b><br />
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If the affiliate offers you’re promoting don’t support Tracking Pixels or Postback URLs, you’ll generally have to resort to using “Sub-IDs” for conversion tracking.<br />
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Some of the affiliate platforms where you’re forced to use Sub-ID tracking include:<br />
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Amazon<br />
JVZoo<br />
LinkShare<br />
ShareASale<br />
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Part 4 of the <strong><a href="https://www.clickmagick.com/tracking/" target="_blank">Tracking Guide</a></strong> talked about using only Sub-IDs to track affiliate sales if whatever you’re promoting doesn’t support tracking pixels or Postback URLs.<br />
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To track your sales using Sub-IDs you need to pass a unique Sub-ID to your affiliate link with each click. With ClickMagick it’s as simple as adding a unique <code><span style="color:#008000;">[clickid]</span></code> token wherever you want the Sub-ID to be inserted into your affiliate link.<br />
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You can find a complete walkthrough of how to set this up for the JVZoo network here:<br />
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<td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><a href="/user/faqs.cgi?answer=246"> How do I track affiliate conversions with JVZoo?</a></b></td>
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If you’re using one of the other networks where you need to use Sub-IDs to track conversions, you would follow exactly the same steps that you see in the FAQ for JVZoo.<br />
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The only real difference is in how you pass the <code>[clickid]</code> token to your network. LinkShare and ShareASale use these <code>[clickid]</code> <strong><a href="/user/faqs.cgi?answer=177">query string parameters</a></strong> which you would simply append to the end of your affiliate links:<br />
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<td style="width: 253px;"><code>&U1=[clickid]</code></td>
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<td style="width: 253px;"><code>&afftrack=[clickid]</code></td>
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If you’re working with Amazon, you’ll want to read about Amazon Tracking IDs here:<br />
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<td style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 20px;"><a href="https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/help/t10" target="_blank"><img height="20" src="//cdn.clickmagick.com/images/user/faqpage.gif" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="17" /></a></td>
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<td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><a href="https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/help/t10" target="_blank">Amazon Associates Central – Manage Your Tracking IDs</a></b></td>
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