Stopping Affiliate Hijackers
Filtering and Exporting Affiliate Details
when you need to share evidence with subnetworks or your affiliate network, use filters to isolate a specific affiliate and export all their details this provides the granularity needed to identify a specific offender and show the scale of offending when to use this common scenarios subnetwork needs to identify which user in their network is responsible your affiliate network requests detailed evidence you're building a case against a repeat offender multiple advertisers are using the same affiliate id what you'll get all detections, advertiser names, identifiers (click ids, site ids, etc ), and screenshots for a specific affiliate step by step process 1\ navigate to the right report go to the report showing affiliate ids hijacking affiliates for hijacking fraud coupon affiliates for discount site bidding extension report for browser extensions 2\ add a filter click "add filter" button select "affiliate id" choose filter type "affiliate id is" enter the affiliate id you want to isolate click "apply" result report now shows only detections from that specific affiliate 3\ add all relevant columns to see every identifier for this affiliate, you need to add columns how to find which columns to add click on any ad in the filtered results view the ad analysis note which parameters are present (click id, site id, sub id, etc ) add those as columns to your report common columns to add click id (e g , awin click id) site id sub id click ref network specific parameters how to add columns click the column selector (gear icon) find the parameter name check the box click "apply" 4\ review the filtered data your report now shows all advertisers using this affiliate id all click ids detected all other parameters extracted this is everything subnetworks need to identify the offender 5\ export the data click the download/export button (arrow icon) what's included in the export all visible columns complete tracking urls detection timestamps advertiser names all extracted parameters a screenshot of the serp format excel file ready to share tips for better results check the ad analysis first this tells you which columns to add, so you don't miss important identifiers export before customising further get the full dataset first, you can always filter it later in excel what to do with the export share with subnetworks attach the excel file to your communication with a note "please identify which user in your network is using these ids" share with your affiliate network they can look up these ids in their system and facilitate enforcement keep for your records store as evidence if disputes arise later link to docid\ e5ltztk4nkmekn6 u7o0 common questions "should i export for every affiliate?" only when you need detailed evidence, for simple cases, the standard reports are sufficient "what if no affiliate id is present?" filter by advertiser name instead, then export all available ids (click id, site id, etc ) next steps got your export? docid\ e5ltztk4nkmekn6 u7o0 what to include in your communication docid\ r5wyslhqw78nhzuew mgi draft your warning or escalation working with subnetworks specific guidance for subnetwork enforcement 💡 pro tip enable network integration to automatically pull in affiliate emails and additional details this makes the export even more powerful and saves manual lookup contact alec\@marcode ai to set this up