Tracking Your Revenue as a TrafficZest Vendor

If you sell traffic on TrafficZest and use ClickerVolt as your tracker, ClickerVolt can automatically show your sold-click revenue right alongside your clicks and conversions. In the most common case there's nothing to set up — no pixel, no postback, no manual reporting. And if your TrafficZest link lives on a landing or bridge page instead of being the direct destination, a quick one-time setup makes it work there too.

Who This Is For

This feature is for TrafficZest vendors — people who sell their traffic on TrafficZest and want to see what that traffic earned them inside ClickerVolt.

If that's you, you already have everything you need:

• You use ClickerVolt to create and manage your tracking links
• Your traffic ends up going through a TrafficZest link (a urlk.to link) — either as the direct destination or via a page in between

If you don't sell traffic on TrafficZest, this feature simply doesn't apply to your links and you can ignore it.

How It Works

When one of your ClickerVolt link targets is set up for TrafficZest — either because its destination is a urlk.to link (detected automatically) or because you've selected TrafficZest Vendors as its conversion source — ClickerVolt treats it as a TrafficZest link. From that point on:

1. On every click, ClickerVolt securely signs and attaches your account, link, and target identifiers to the outbound URL. This is what lets TrafficZest attribute each sold click back to the exact ClickerVolt link and target it came from.
2. TrafficZest tracks which of those clicks resulted in a sale and how much they earned.
3. TrafficZest reports that revenue back to ClickerVolt about every 10 minutes.
4. ClickerVolt merges it into your reports as Revenue.

There is no pixel to install and no postback URL to paste — just the right destination (or the one-time bridge-page setup described below).

Setting It Up

There are two ways to use this, depending on where your urlk.to link lives.

Option 1 — Your destination is a urlk.to link (automatic)

If your target sends traffic straight to a urlk.to address, there's nothing to configure:

1. Create or edit a link target in ClickerVolt as you normally would.
2. Set its destination URL to your TrafficZest link (any https://urlk.to/... address).
3. Save. ClickerVolt detects the urlk.to destination and selects TrafficZest Vendors as the conversion source for you.

That's it. Your sold-click revenue will begin appearing in your reports.

Option 2 — Your urlk.to link is on a landing or bridge page (manual)

Sometimes your target doesn't point at urlk.to directly — for example, it sends visitors to your own landing/bridge page, and that page contains the urlk.to link. This works too, with two manual steps:

1. Select the conversion source manually. Open the target's Tracking Setup → Conversions tab and choose TrafficZest Vendors, even though the destination is your own page rather than a urlk.to address. This tells ClickerVolt to attach its TrafficZest tracking context to every click.
2. Forward the query parameters on your page. When ClickerVolt sends a visitor to your page, it appends a set of tracking parameters to the URL. Your page must pass those same parameters through to the urlk.to link it links to. The simplest and most future-proof approach is to forward the entire incoming query string onto the urlk.to URL.

The parameters ClickerVolt adds — and that need to reach urlk.to — are:

• _cv, _cvl, _cvt — your account, link, and target IDs
• _cvs, _cvv — the security signature and contract version
• utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_term, utm_content — your UTM breakdown
• cvidr — the ClickerVolt visitor identifier

If the _cv, _cvl, or _cvt parameters don't make it to urlk.to, TrafficZest can't attribute the sale back to your account and no revenue will be reported. Forwarding the full query string is the safest way to avoid missing any of them.

Where Your Revenue Appears

Once TrafficZest starts reporting, your sold-click revenue shows up in the standard Revenue column throughout your reports — the same column used for every other revenue source. You don't need to look in a special place. It appears in:

• Target stats and Target Performance — revenue per target
• Link stats — total revenue rolled up across all of a link's targets
• Timeseries charts — your revenue trend over time
• The dashboard reports panel
• UTM segment reports — revenue broken down by traffic source, medium, and campaign (UTM v1 / v2 / v3)

Because TrafficZest reports revenue broken down by UTM, you can segment your reports by source, medium, or campaign and see exactly which placements earned what.

How Often Revenue Updates

Revenue is delivered in batches, not instantly per click. ClickerVolt pulls fresh figures from TrafficZest about every 10 minutes, so a sold click's revenue typically appears within roughly 10 minutes of TrafficZest recording the sale. If you've just sent your first clicks through a new link, allow a few minutes before the first revenue appears.

What It Does Not Change

It's worth knowing what stays the same:

• Your click and conversion counts are unaffected. TrafficZest revenue is merged as revenue only — it does not inflate the conversion or click numbers in your reports, so your conversion rates stay accurate.
• You keep using ClickerVolt exactly as before. This feature adds revenue visibility on top of your existing tracking; it doesn't replace any of it.

Advanced Topics

Does this use my events / credits?

Yes — modestly. Importing your TrafficZest revenue is counted toward your monthly event allowance, the same way conversions are (see Understanding the Credits System). Each batch of revenue ClickerVolt receives is recorded as conversion events. This is separate from the click/conversion counts shown in your reports, which are unaffected. For most vendors the added usage is small relative to their click volume, but if you run very high traffic it's worth keeping in mind when you estimate your monthly usage.

My urlk.to link is on a landing/bridge page, not the destination — can I still track revenue?

Yes — this is Option 2 under Setting It Up. Manually select TrafficZest Vendors as the target's conversion source, then make sure your page forwards ClickerVolt's tracking query parameters (especially _cv, _cvl, _cvt, _cvs, _cvv) through to the urlk.to link on the page. Forwarding the whole query string is the easiest way to guarantee nothing is dropped.

Why is my revenue broken down by UTM?

TrafficZest reports revenue per UTM combination (source, medium, campaign, term, content), which usually map to your placements or sub-sources. That's why you can segment your ClickerVolt reports by UTM and still see revenue attributed correctly to each one.

Is the data secure?

Yes. The account, link, and target context ClickerVolt attaches on each click is cryptographically signed, and ClickerVolt re-verifies that signature before accepting any revenue figures back from TrafficZest. Revenue can only be attributed to the account that actually owns the link.

Are refunds or chargebacks reflected?

No. ClickerVolt tracks the sold-click revenue TrafficZest reports. Subsequent refunds or chargebacks on the buyer side are not subtracted from the revenue shown in ClickerVolt.

Can I scale the revenue TrafficZest reports?

Yes. If you set a Revenue multiplier on the target (in its Tracking Setup → Conversions tab), it's applied to your TrafficZest revenue before it appears in your reports — handy for a rev-share split or for converting to the currency you report in. It scales the revenue figure only; your click and conversion counts are unchanged. See Scaling Reported Revenue with the Revenue Multiplier.

My TrafficZest revenue isn't showing up — what should I check?

• Confirm the click reaches a urlk.to link. Either your destination is a urlk.to address, or your bridge page links to one. Open the target and verify.
• Using a bridge page? Check parameter forwarding. Make sure the page passes ClickerVolt's query parameters (the _cv/_cvl/_cvt/_cvs/_cvv set, plus UTMs) through to the urlk.to link. Dropping them is the most common reason revenue doesn't appear in the manual setup.
• Check the conversion source. On the target's Tracking Setup → Conversions tab, confirm TrafficZest Vendors is selected. It's automatic for urlk.to destinations; for a bridge page you must select it yourself.
• Give it time. Revenue arrives in batches about every 10 minutes, not instantly. Allow 10–15 minutes after the sale is recorded.
• Still stuck? Contact support with your link and target details and the approximate time of the clicks.