how does pixel tracking work?

**raj564** · #1 (**permalink**) 12-28-2007, 12:04 AM

I was trying to get information about this from my CPAEmpire AM and she mentioned this. I saw some video of a guy appending "?subid=" and that was what I was trying to get more information on.

So i figure a pixel is a 1x1 px that I create on my landing page? So theres a unique pixel created for every offer i want to create?

**Pryda** · #2 (**permalink**) 12-28-2007, 08:15 AM

When you have an image on your webpage, the surfer's browser will send some information to the webserver hosting the image (to request that image). This request looks like:

Code:

GET /track.gif?subid=testid HTTP/1.0
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.01 [en] (Win95; I)
Host: www.mypixeltracker.com
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8

If your file track.gif on your site is a PHP script instead of a GIF image, you can record the information that is send in the request (including the subid parameter and the ip of the surfer) and still output a valid 1x1 px image.

I hope that answers your question.

zoux · #3 (**permalink**) 01-02-2008, 06:20 PM

when someone talk about pixel he can refer to adwords pixel, you have to ask to your affiliate manager put the adwords pixel in the offer that you are promoting