Especially in affiliate marketing and other forms of advertising in which the modulation of advertising is not left to the customer AdServer but the website or third parties, it may happen that may more traffic is delivered to the site from time to time as it can withstand. Here cases of Cookiespreading Particular mention where in a short time millions of "clicks" generated, so that the capacity of the website have been exceeded and walked the site offline.
To prevent this may be preceded by a traffic restriction.
method
- Create a campaign.
- Create the Creative as usual.
- Get the codes from the codecenter or book the campaign. Everything as usual.
- Within the campaign to be limited, you now change the click target of the Creative. Here you change each click URL insofar as the following has to stand before the actual URL:
http://[ADSERVERNAME]/adblock.php?id=1&sec=3600&max=100&url=
... replace it [ADSERVERNAME] with the name of your ad server (eg kundenname.adspirit.de).
The individual parameters following meanings:
| &id= | a freely assigned by you ID (number 0-65000). All clicks that go to this ID are counted and if necessary blocked. Here you can select, for example, a number for a customer or a network in the turn - as you like. |
| &sec= | number of seconds in which time the click number may not be exceeded. 60 is one minute, one hour, etc. 3600 |
| &max= | clicks that may run for a maximum in the period. |
| &url= | (must inevitably come as the last parameter) URL to be forwarded. All that is behind the parameter is cut off and passed away. |
Should therefore go for example up to 100 clicks per minute for customers http://www.tchibo.de the complete URL would look like this:
http://kundenname.adspirit.de/adblock.php?id=77&sec=60&max=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tchibo.de%0A