What are all the advanced rotator settings?

In the Rotator Advanced Settings, you have many ways to fine-tune exactly how your rotators behave and what type of traffic your URLs will receive.

Some of the settings are processed in a specific order. Read the note at the end of this document for more details.

For a video overview of the most commonly used features watch this video:
 
Advanced Rotator Settings


MagickBars & MagickPops

MagickBars and MagickPops are cool features that you can easily add to any rotator or URL in the rotator 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. Want an opt-in form to pop up when a user first goes to the page? You can do that. Want 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 video near the upper-left corner of each page to watch the demo videos.


Geotargeting

If you only want to send clicks from certain countries to your rotator URLs, geotargeting allows you to select those countries. All clicks coming from other countries will be sent to the rotator’s Backup URL.

You can learn more about geotargeting here:
 
  How do the Geotargeting and Backup URLs work?
 
Caution: Any geotargeting settings in the advanced settings of a rotator will take precedence over any geotargeting settings that you have in the rotator URLs themselves. For example, if the rotator itself is set to only accept T1 clicks, your rotator URLs will never receive clicks from non-T1 countries regardless of their geotargeting settings.
 

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 rotator.

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.

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 big enough to be treated as a “regular” visitor. But you can change this any time in the Traffic settings of your User Profile.


Pixel/Code

Add retargeting or other pixels here. Cut and paste carefully, and be sure to test. If you mess this up it can cause your rotator to malfunction.
 
Note: Also, please note that pixels will only fire if the click is sent to your rotator URLs. They will NOT fire if the click is sent to your Backup URL, or any other re-routed URL.


“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?


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 in your Rotator URLs

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?
 
 
Note: When clicks are processed for rotator links, your settings are applied in the following order, from top to bottom:

iOS devices
Mobile devices
Geotargeting in the Advanced Settings
Rotator URLs  (Pixel/Code settings are fired here)
Geotargeting in the Rotator URLs