Duplicate tracking of Affiliate and Organic orders
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I started diving into the over lap between Organic and affiliate orders and can see that on average about 10% of my organic orders get tracked as both affiliate and organic (meaning i am paying affiliate commissions on them). I want to be able to better account for the different types of order and where they are coming from.
My question is simply if anyone has any ideas as to how better to figure out if those orders should be canceled on the affiliate end or if there is a better way in analytics to see where the order is actually getting attributed to through some type of goal or advanced set up or something (the download of orders from organic that I compared to the affiliate ones was taken from Ecommerce > Transactions > Medium (Organic) then I compared that to the order numbers from the affiliate company I am using).
Hope this makes sense and thanks for any information that can help with this!
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Hi Gordian,
Which affiliate network are you using like cj, linkshare, shareasale ?
They already have affiliate link tracking for sales. Affiliate get paid based upon those affiliate links. Please talk to your affiliate network they will help you out in it.
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