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.
GENERAL:
Main setup:
Smartlink information
Name
Description
Status:
ENABLED: select this value if you want the Smartlink to receive traffic.
DISABLED
Visibility: Offer visibility for the Affiliate in the Marketplace:
Public: The Smartlink will be visible to all the affiliates, and they can get the tracking URL to send traffic.
Protected: The Smartlink will be visible to all the affiliates, but they must request access to the tracking URL to send traffic.
Private: The Smartlink will be visible to no Affiliate until the account manager manually assigns the Offer to each Affiliate.
Offers: select the list of offers you want to include in the Smartlink.
If you keep this part empty, then the Smartlink will use the Offers configured in the Fallback section. In this case, it is mandatory to configure at least one Fallback for Smarlink.
Click Save. The Smartlink will be created.
Auto Smartlink
Fill in the mandatory fields.
GENERAL:
Main setup:
Smartlink information
Name
Description
Status:
ENABLED: select this value if you want the Smartlink to receive traffic.
DISABLED
Visibility: Offer visibility for the Affiliate in the Marketplace:
Public: The Smartlink will be visible to all affiliates, and they can use the tracking URL to send traffic.
Protected: The Smartlink will be visible to all the affiliates, but they must request access to the tracking URL to send traffic.
Private: The Smartlink will be visible to no Affiliate until the account manager manually assigns the Offer to each Affiliate.
Offers: select the list of offers you want to be part of the Smartlink
Offer settings: In this section, you will configure the conditions to include one offer in the Smartlink:
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.
Tag list: Include or exclude Offer tags to select which offers to add to Smartlink.
Category list: Include or exclude Offer categories to select which offers to add to Smartlink.
Include offers with visibility: Select the visibility type to include in the Smartlink, and those offers with any of the selected visibility types.
Device: Select the devices to include in the Smartlink, those offers that include any of the selected devices.
Excluded offers: add all the offers you need to exclude from the Smartlink.
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.
Click Save. The Smartlink will be created.
Fallback
In both Smartlink types, Manual and Auto, it is possible to configure fallback rules if any Offer from Smartlink matches the click.
You can add different fallback rules. For each, you must fill in the following:
Fallback name
Fallback weight: This value determines which fallback to use among all configured rules. Rules with higher weight will have more possibilities for selection.
Redirect to:
Tracking URL: URL to redirect the traffic.
Offer: Offer from Aftrad to send the traffic.
Affiliates
In both Smartlink types, Manual or Auto, it is possible to enable/disable 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:
