How To… Pass variables to destination URLs

25.11.2009 | Author: John Reel | Posted in How To...

If your destination “TO URL” requires variables to be passed into it, you simply add them to the very end of your GoTryTHIS redirect link, just as you would with the real link. If you are adding a campaign, the variables still go at the end, after the campaign.

For example, if you had mysite.com/mylink redirecting to targetsite.com/somelink, you could add variables to mysite.com/mylink and the variables get passed to targetsite.com/somelink as if they were entered there.

So, if you create that link:
- Redirect “mysite.com/mylink”
- To URL: “targetsite.com/somelink”

Then you can publish it like this:
- mysite.com/mylink?myvar=value&myvar2=value2

And it will send the visitor to:
- targetsite.com/somelink?myvar=value&myvar2=value2

Example of Adding Variables And A Campaign:
- mysite.com/mylink-campaign?myvar=value&myvar2=value2

You could use this for many reasons, including passing keywords to the end page.

Here is a real life example of sending search terms through a GoTryTHIS query:

The GoTryTHIS Link:
- Redirect: http://www.AnExampleSite.com/search
- To URL: www.google.com/search
Passing Variables Sample Link

Example Of Adding Variables:

Now http://www.AnExampleSite.com/search?q=gotrythis will redirect to http://www.google.com/search?q=gotrythis

(”q” is the variable name used for sending the terms to search on to Google, and “gotrythis” is the search term.)

One Response to “How To… Pass variables to destination URLs”

  1. Allen Davis says:
    June 14, 2010 at 5:37 am

    One of the reasons I like using GoTryTHIS is so I don’t have ugly links with a lot of ?=&+ symbols in them. I use Gotrythis to mask the variable parameters when I link to a splash page when sending traffic from credit based mailers or traffic exchanges.

    example: I send a mail out to members of This Credit Mailer using a link http://mysplashpage.com?s=ThisCreditMailer I mask this link as http://mygttdomain.com/splashidforthiscreditmailer. This lets me track the clicks on the link as well as hiding the parameters.

    I pass parameters to the splash page so that it can then use as a campaign on a gotrythis link to an affiliate program.

    In my previous example the splash page will take the parameter ?s=ThisCreditMailer and use it as a campaign on a gtt link to an affiliate program:
    http://mygttdoman.com/affprogram-ThisCreditMailer

    This link incorporates my affiliate ID and tracks where the leads originated so I can send leads from multiple sources to this splash page and tell which sources are effective and which are not using the campaign generated by the splash page from the parameters.

    The only problem is I have to set up a new gtt link with different parameters for each traffic source. I could use a campaign and parameters to track but then the link is extra ugly http://mygttdomain.com/splashpage-thiscreditmailer?s=thiscreditmailer

    It would be nice if GoTryTHIS had the capability of using the campaign id as a parameter in the destination link.

    So I could use http://mygttdomain.com/splashpage-thiscreditmailer and gotrythis would send the traffic to the destination http://mysplashpage.com?s=thiscreditmailer automatically extracting the value for s from the campaign identifier of the gotrythis link

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