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Affiliate Link Failure #57

Closed adhadley closed 6 years ago

adhadley commented 6 years ago

I just tried out using a tracking URL with my unique aid number but it didnt work. I bought the ticket after clicking on this link and it has not register an an affiliate ticket sale.

Am I doing something wrong? my aid ID number is: 13055

This is the URL i used : https://seatgeek.com/heat-at-hornets-tickets/1-20-2018-charlotte-north-carolina-spectrum-center/nba/3995085?oq=heat+at+hornets+tickets+1+20+2018+charlotte+north+carolina+spectrum+center+nba+3995085aid+13055

josegonzalez commented 6 years ago

I believe you need to set the AID like so:

 https://seatgeek.com/heat-at-hornets-tickets/1-20-2018-charlotte-north-carolina-spectrum-center/nba/3995085?oq=heat+at+hornets+tickets+1+20+2018+charlotte+north+carolina+spectrum+center+nba+3995085&aid=13055

You'll notice I separated it via ampersand (&) and also made it a key/value in the querystring.

Let me know if that helps.

adhadley commented 6 years ago

What do you mean by made it a key/value in the querystring? sorry not familiar with that

adhadley commented 6 years ago

Also When I send myself a text message with that URL it doesnt keep the &aid=13055 is this supposed to happen?

josegonzalez commented 6 years ago

Shorter example:

# *just* your aid is in the query string, which is delimited from the rest of the url with `?`
https://seatgeek.com/?aid=13055

# with another key/value pair in the querystring, as you had in your example
https://seatgeek.com/?oq=some-other-thing&aid=13055

The cruq of the issue is that your link had a separate key/value pair in the existing querystring, so you needed to separate yours with & from the existing ones. Here is a stack overflow link that has a reasonable (to me at least) description of the parts of a url and how to manipulate them.

As far as sending yourself a text message, I don't know what the issue there might be. I would check on whatever script you are using to send urls to ensure that querystring parameters are properly persisted. You might be coming up against the SMS character limit for your specific provider.

zackkitzmiller commented 6 years ago

Also When I send myself a text message with that URL it doesnt keep the &aid=13055 is this supposed to happen?

Yes. When you hit the SeatGeek web application we store the aid in a cookie and strip it from the URL.

adhadley commented 6 years ago

When I put &aid=13055 at the end of this link:

https://seatgeek.com/magic-at-celtics-tickets/1-21-2018-boston-massachusetts-td-garden/nba/3993300?oq=magic+at+celtics+tickets+1+21+2018+boston+massachusetts+td+garden+nba+3993300

and then i click on it, it does not work --> the &aid=13055 does not stick to the end of the link when i clink on that link. The Same thing happens with i do ?aid=13055 at the end.

Is there a different form I should be using?

zackkitzmiller commented 6 years ago

That is intentional. We store the aid on the users browser. It will be removed from the URL at that time.

josegonzalez commented 6 years ago

Closing as I think this was resolved.