How to enable SSL/HTTPS for your campaigns with VOLUUM.

Last week, Amy started a thread that showed the possible importance of using secure/httpS links in our campaigns, especially when runnning iOS traffic.

The thread is here : https://stmforum.com/forum/showthread.php?40839-2-lessons-learned-by-advertizercom-pay-special-attentiom-to-tip-2

So obviously, I wanted to test this myself to see if I can improve my ROI. It took me some time to set everything up, so I decided to sum the necessary steps up in an article, to make your life easier … should you decide to do the same. I was using Voluum for this, so this tutorial is related to voluum tracking setup.

LET’S START :

In order for the whole flow to work correctly, all of the steps must use SSL encryption … the tracking domain, landing page domain, affiliate network tracking domain and the offer domain. If some of the domains isn’t secure, the users can get a warning about leaving secure environment and that’s not something we want.

Affiliate networks are usually sorted, most of the advertisers use secure links already too … but these are steps we cannot influence anyways, so just make sure you’re working with the right ones.

So there are 2 steps to fix : your tracking domain and your landing page url.

LANDING PAGE DOMAIN FIRST:

This went smooth in my case, I just contacted the hosting provider that is hosting some LPs for me and asked them to activate SSL for the given domains. There is a free SSL certificate provider, that MANY hosts support so I asked about the possibility to use them and it worked … https://letsencrypt.org/

This took literally 10 minutes and didn’t require any additional action from me and it’s also a free service.

In case your host doesn’t support this option yet, you can still handle this on your own, but you will need shell access and it requires some tech knowledge. Most of us are running on managed hosting, so the support should be able to help you with it.

TIP : Erik just wrote an add on for this tutorial, check ...