Deep Linking

Deep Linking for PhoneSale.com is available at Commission Junction:

Commission Junction

First of all you need to identify the links which are deep linking enabled. For PhoneSale.com the link to use for deep linking is link #10800567.

Using Thomson Holidays as an example, this screenshot shows how you can tell that a link has deep linking enabled. There will be a ‘destination url’ field.

Altering the link to go to a specific page is then easy.

Let’s say we want to link through to this landing page on Thomson: http://www.thomson.co.uk/late-deals/late-deals.html . We insert that URL into the Destination URL field and click ‘update link code’ and the link has been updated to go to that specific page.

The link structure in total will look like this (with a fictitious PID)

You can see that the link contains a click tag and an image tag. If we strip away the image tag and the text so that we’re just looking at the link in its most basic form you get this:

Looking at it like this you can see that the CJ tracking link and the encoded destination URL is connected by this parameter: ?url= (If you are unsure of how to encode URLs you can use a URL encoder tool like this one.

Now that you know all of this you have the structure to create links without needing to log into your CJ account. Providing that you know the link has been enabled for the url redirection (deep linking) you can use http://dpbolvw.net/click-1111111-AID?url= in front of any encoded destination URL.

My final example to wrap things up:-)

Basic Link Structure:

Chosen Landing Page URL:

Encoded Landing Page URL

Deep Link