NATS4 Type-In Traffic
Type-In Traffic is considered to be any visitor/surfer that was not redirected through an affiliate's link, and as a result has not had their hits/activity tracked or gone through standard tour pages.
NATS Admin
NATS4 allows tracking of Raw and Unique hits that come from Type-In traffic. In order to view Type-In traffic, you must select Type-In for the Program when generating a report.
If you would like to default the Type-In traffic to a specific affiliate, for example and In-House account, you would take the following steps.
First, you would need to override/create an In-House affiliate account and grab a Link Code from their affiliate area.
For each site, take the link code from that affiliate:
e.g.
http://nats41.bill.brandy.toomuchmedia.com/track/MTEuMTEuOS4xOC4wLjAuMC4wLjA
Retrieve the NATS code from the end of their link:
MTEuMTEuOS4xOC4wLjAuMC4wLjA
Once you have done this, use the NATS code you retrieved from the Link Codes page to replace the code in your Default join form links in the Sites Admin, as well as any links to your tracking pages.
http://nats41.bill.brandy.toomuchmedia.com/signup/signup.php?nats=<?=$_REQUEST['nats']?$_REQUEST['nats']:'MC4wLjkuMTguMC4wLjAuMC4w'?>&step=2
Becomes:
http://nats41.bill.brandy.toomuchmedia.com/signup/signup.php?nats=<?=$_REQUEST['nats']?$_REQUEST['nats']:'MTEuMTEuOS4xOC4wLjAuMC4wLjA'?>&step=2
In this example, the code MC4wLjkuMTguMC4wLjAuMC4w (original code) has been replaced with MTEuMTEuOS4xOC4wLjAuMC4wLjA (code from the Link Codes page). This will now have all type-in traffic default to the NATS code grabbed from the link code.
