Questions tagged [referrals]
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Pass referrer data through chrome intent to google play
So I have a mobile web that would try to open my android app, if it does not exist, it would fall back to google play.
for chrome, i use this intent:
intent://some_data_sent_to_app#Intent;scheme=app_scheme;package=package_name;end
and it works…

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Implementing referral rewards in Flutter
I would like to set up a referrals system in my application, so that users can invite their friends via email/phone number etc (whichever is easiest) and when it is confirmed that the invitee has installed the application, it will reward the…

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Django: Implementing a referral program
I have an ecommerce website that works in a classical way: people sign up, buy a product with their CC.
It uses the default Django auth system for users and registration and session framework.
Now I want to implement a referral system to my system…

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How can I detect rel="noreferrer" support?
Is there any way I can detect the support for rel="noreferrer" with Javascript?
link without referral
Solution - $.browser is deprecated, and it may be moved to a plugin in a future release of…

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Can I use Firebase Dynamic Links for a web app?
I don't see any option for Web under "receiving dynamic links" in Firebase Dynamic links page.
Without the SDK, there's no way to connect a post-install user with a pre-install click.
I have a desktop app that runs on node.js like a web app,…

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How to broadcast referral to android app intallation
Not Answered, Almost Same Question
To Explain My Goal:
I have an apk URL that could be in a market (eg: Google Play, Bazaar, etc) or could be a direct link to apk file.
To Explain My Requirements
I'll have to set referral link to broadcast it to…

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Android referral tracking not working with Google play
I am trying to implement referral tracking on downloads from the Google play.
Before uploading to Google Play, when I tried testing the app using below script, its working fine and i am getting referral string.
adb shell
am broadcast -a…

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How to implement referral code in Hybrid Mobile Apps while downloading from store
I need to implement a scenario in which App is shared by any user with some unique code attached at end of link
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.App.hybrid.myapp&Ref=A8%gdbT^7YgH
When someone download app from given above link, he…

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Get the referral url in javascript
I want to see how much traffic I get from various URL shortening services like
bit.ly
tinyurl.com
But because they use 301 redirection, they don't show up in my analytics.
How can I find out who is redirecting the traffic?
Or
More precisely how…

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Referral link for app purchase
Is there any method to create a referral link to the App Store, with some device ID, for example b7a8913nfs9dfn, in the link, so that when a person downloads the app from the App Store and installs it on the device, after running it for the first…

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Referral program - cookies and more (Rails)
I'm building a referral program for my Ruby on Rails app, such that a user can share a link that contains their user ID (app.com/?r=ID). If a referrer ID is present when a visitor lands on app's homepage, the signup form on the homepage contains a…

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Why isn't the the Referer header removed for Google HTTPS -> HTTP?
Clients SHOULD NOT include a Referer header field in a (non-secure) HTTP request if the referring page was transferred with a secure protocol.”
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2616#section-15.1.3
According to the standard, https://google.com…

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Tracking an event to a referrer in Google Analytics
A site I'm working on is tracking Google Analytics events that always have a direct referral URL that is internal to our site. What would be good practice to link the event to the originating referral URL?
An example use case is:
User is on facebook…

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Tracking like button referrals from Facebook using the 'fb_ref' parameter in our code
We would like to use the Attribute fb_ref - the ref parameter in a like button (in order to track referral clicks and conversions).
Do you have a tutorial or example of how this works on our pages?

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Are hash referral codes in URL necessary?
Other sites' referral programs generate url's with hash codes to represent the referrer. When the url is sent to and followed by friends and family, some kind of points or recognition system awards the referrer defined by the hash code...but why…

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