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Create a smartlink

How to create a Smartlink in Aftrad

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Written by Jorge Rubia
Updated over 12 months ago

In the top right corner of the Smartlink List page, click on +Create.

Then select the Smartlink type you want to create:

- Manual

- Auto

This will redirect you to the Smartlink creation page:

Manual Smartlink


Fill in the mandatory fields.

  1. GENERAL:

    1. Main setup:

      1. Smartlink information

        1. Name

        2. Description

        3. Status:

          1. ENABLED: select this value if you want the Smartlink to receive traffic.

          2. DISABLED

        4. Visibility: offer visibility for the affiliate in the Marketplace:

          1. Public: The Smartlink will be visible to all the affiliates, and they can get the tracking URL to send traffic.

          2. Protected: The Smartlink will be visible to all the affiliates, but they must request access to the tracking URL to send traffic.

          3. Private: The Smartlink will be visible to no affiliate until the account manager manually assigns the offer to each affiliate.

        5. Offers: select the list of the offers you want to be part of the Smartlink

  2. Click Save. The Smartlink will be created.

Auto Smartlink


Fill in the mandatory fields.

  1. GENERAL:

    1. Main setup:

      1. Smartlink information

        1. Name

        2. Description

        3. Status:

          1. ENABLED: select this value if you want the Smartlink to receive traffic.

          2. DISABLED

        4. Visibility: offer visibility for the affiliate in the Marketplace:

          1. Public: The Smartlink will be visible to all the affiliates, and they can get the tracking URL for sending traffic.

          2. Protected: The Smartlink will be visible to all the affiliates, but they must request access to the tracking URL to send traffic.

          3. Private: The Smartlink will be visible to no affiliate until the account manager manually assigns the offer to each affiliate.

        5. Offers: select the list of the offers you want to be part of the Smartlink

      2. Offer settings: in this section, you will configure the conditions to include one offer in the Smartlink:

        1. Advertiser list: Includes or excludes the advertisers whose offers you want to add to the Smartlink. If empty and excluded, all the advertisers will be considered.

        2. Tag list: Include or exclude offer tags to select which offers to add to Smartlink.

        3. Category list: Include or exclude offer categories to select which offers to add to Smartlink.

        4. Include offers with visibility: Select the type of visibility to include in the Smartlink those offers with any of the selected visibilities.

        5. Device: Select the devices to include in the Smartlink those offers with any of the selected devices.

        6. Excluded offers: add all the offers you need to exclude from the Smartlink.

        7. Max offer age: the number of days from the creation date of the offer until today. Every offer older than the configured max offer age will be excluded from the Smartlink.

  2. Click Save. The Smartlink will be created.

Fallback

In both Smartlink types, Manual or Auto, it is possible to configure some fallback rules in case any offer from Smartlink matches with the click.

You can add different fallback rules. For each, you must fill in the following:

  1. Fallback name

  2. Fallback weight: This value will decide which fallback to use among all the configured rules. Rules with higher weight will have more possibilities for selection.

  3. Redirect to:

    1. Tracking URL: URL to redirect the traffic.

    2. Offer: offer from Aftrad to send the traffic.

Affiliates

In both Smartlink types, Manual or Auto, it is possible to enabled/disabled access to Affiliates to the Smartlink:

Also, you can get every affiliate tracking link by clicking on the three dots on the right side of the row:

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