Having a hard time with my affiliate manager to make the tracking pixel work with piwik

[Lukas (Lukas Winkler)]

Hi,

I think the tracking pixel is the entirely wrong tool for tracking affiliate links. It’s only use case is tracking page visits without javascript.

But Piwik has another feature that is perfect for this: Campaign Tracking.

See here for more information:

Acquisition and Marketing Channels - Reports - Matomo Analytics

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