What are all of these advanced link settings?
In the Advanced Settings, you have many ways to fine-tune exactly how your tracking links behave.
With ClickMagick you can enable powerful conversion features like MagickBars and Pop Ups, optimize your traffic by country and device type, block spiders and bots, and much more.
Keep reading to learn about the advanced settings for tracking links, and the order they’re processed in.
For a video overview of the most commonly used features watch this video:

|  | Advanced Link Tracking

Entry Link & Attribute
If you’re building your own sales funnel complete with upsells, downsells, email followup campaigns, etc., and you want to track every step in the process, you can easily do that with the “Entry Link” and “Attribute” settings.
The “Entry Link” and “Attribute” settings are key to setting up and tracking an entire sales funnel. For a full explanation and video on how to set this up, follow the instructions in this guide:

|  | What’s the best way to track an entire funnel?

MagickBars & MagickPops
MagickBars and MagickPops are cool features that you can easily add to any site to increase your conversions.
With MagickBars, you can add customized content to the top or bottom of any website that you link to. ClickMagick makes it super simple to add countdown timers, email opt-in forms, banner ads, or anything else you can think of to add to a page.
MagickPops allow you to open a pop up window on top of the target page in a variety of situations. Would you like an opt-in form to pop up when a user first goes to the page? You can do that. Would you like a pop up to display if the user tries to leave the page? You can do that too. And those are just two of the options.
You can add MagickBars and MagickPops to pages you have no control over which make them perfect for affiliate marketers.
To see video examples of how powerful these content tools can be, click on the Content menu the top of the page and start exploring. Be sure to click on the Help videos in the upper-left corner of each page to watch the demo tutorials.
Traffic Cost
You can specify set costs (one-time, CPC, CPA, etc.) in the advanced settings for any link. Just enter a value for Traffic Cost and check the appropriate box for the type of traffic that you’re receiving.
If you set Traffic Cost and do not select any type of traffic, the set cost will be averaged over the number of clicks the link receives.
If your cost-per-click varies, you can track that as well by simply adding a cost value at the end of any link. Here’s how:

|  | What if my cost-per-click varies for each click?

Geotargeting / Geoblocking
Many times an offer you want to promote only accepts traffic from certain countries – and any other traffic you send through your referral link is just wasted.
With geotargeting, you can select the countries you want to work with and send those clicks to your Primary URL, while sending the rest of your traffic to your Backup URL.
You can learn more about geotargeting here:

|  | How does the geotargeting and Backup URL work?

Mobile URL and iOS URL
You can easily identify mobile clicks by setting the optional Mobile and iOS URLs in the Advanced Settings of any link.
When ClickMagick receives a mobile click, it first checks to see if the click is from an Apple iOS device like an iPhone, and if so, the click is re-routed to the URL specified in the iOS URL setting if there is one.
If the iOS URL is not set, or the click is from any other mobile device, the click is re-routed to the Mobile URL, again if there is one, otherwise, the click is processed normally.
Note: By default, visitors using tablets like an iPad will be treated as if they’re on a desktop PC. This is usually what you’ll want because their screens are usually large enough to be treated as a “regular” visitor. If you’d rather have tablets be treated as mobile devices, you can change this setting in the Traffic settings of your User Profile.
Repeat URL
Once the Geotargeting, Mobile/iOS, and MaxClick checks have been made, ClickMagick will do one final check to see if the click coming in has visited this tracking link before. If so, the click will be re-routed to the Repeat URL, if set.
Pixel/Code
If you need to add a tracking pixel or a retargeting pixel to a page that you can’t edit, you can still get the effect you want by creating a new tracking link that points to the page and setting the Pixel/Code entry of the new tracking link to the pixel you want to fire.
Instead of the pixel firing as the page displays, ClickMagick will fire the pixel as it redirects to the page.
For a thorough discussion on how to use the Pixel/Code setting of your tracking links, read this FAQ:

|  | Using the Pixel/Code Feature of Tracking Links

Dynamic Affiliate Link
Normally when you promote an affiliate offer, when users click your affiliate link they land on whatever page the advertiser wants them to land on.
This is usually the advertiser’s opt-in or sales page, which of course you have no control over.
But with ClickMagick you can set up what we call a “Dynamic Affiliate Link” and send the user to any page you want, bypassing the advertiser’s page, and still get credit when they make a purchase.
To learn how to set this up, check out this FAQ:

|  | How do I set up a Dynamic Affiliate Link?

“Bad” Clicks
There are 6 types of “suspicious” or potentially bad clicks you might not want processed the same way as a regular click from a real person surfing the web normally…
In the Advanced Settings, you can select how you want ClickMagick to handle each of the 6 types of “bad” clicks for you, on a per link basis. To set global defaults for these settings visit your User Profile page.
For a thorough discussion on click flagging and blocking and what the different types are, check out this document:

|  | What are the 6 types of potentially “bad” clicks?

Password Protection
You can password protect any link by simply entering a Password in the Advanced Settings. When users visit a link with a password, they will first see a generic “log in” page where they’ll need to enter the correct password to continue. For more details see this FAQ:

|  | How can I password protect a link?

Max Clicks
Setting “Max Clicks” allows you to specify how many clicks will be redirected through the link before all additional clicks are re-routed to the Backup URL.
For this feature to work, you must set a Backup URL.
Note that while “flagged” clicks are redirected through the link like any other click, they are not considered in the click count for Max Clicks because they are not “real” clicks. Also, when normal clicks start redirecting through the Backup URL, flagged clicks will be redirected there as well.
See this FAQ for a better understanding:

|  | What does “click flagging” actually mean?

Blank Referrers
If you want to hide or “blank” your referrers so the sites you’re sending traffic to can’t tell where it’s coming from, it’s super easy to do. Just check the box that says “Blank Referrers.”
This is an advanced feature that you should avoid using unless you fully understand its purpose and you have a good reason for doing so. For a complete explanation, including cautions, see:

|  | How do I completely hide my referrers?

SmartSwap
The SmartSwap feature was introduced specifically for Solo Ad sellers who want to intelligently swap traffic with other Solo Ad sellers.
The principle is simple: after a seller sends you clicks, ClickMagick remembers those clicks, and when you send clicks back, ClickMagick won’t send any clicks from users that you received from the other seller. Obviously this works best if you’re both ClickMagick users with SmartSwap enabled as it will ensure that you’re only passing unique clicks to each other.
To learn how to set this up properly, read this FAQ:

|  | Can you explain exactly how SmartSwap works?

Link Monitoring
If you want to enable or disable link monitoring for this link and this link only, you can do that using the Settings menu to the right of any link and choosing Link Down Alerts.
To enable or disable link monitoring on a system-wide level, go to the “Monitoring” section of your User Profile.
Note: When clicks are processed for tracking links, the advanced settings are applied in the following order, from top to bottom:
Password Protect
iOS devices
Mobile devices
Geotargeting
Max Clicks
Repeat Clicks
Primary URL and Split Test URLs (Pixel/Code settings are fired here)
Using this information, you can see that the Pixel/Code settings won’t be fired if something earlier in the table sends the click somewhere else, such as geotargeting sending the click to the Backup URL or Max Clicks topping out. That’s how you would use the information in this table.