In some of my Zazzle "Your Recent Sales" emails, I get a string of random numbers and letters after the royalty total.
Different sales emails will have different random strings (eg Cj0KCQjw4v6-BhDuARIsALprm31mrFfSjhZpU1KeooC2GeDIddzTH90SX6B2tZg0j0dN478HsQzmjhoaAp_gEALw_wcB ).
And some emails don't have a string at all.
Can anyone explain what these strings mean? Thanks.
That string is actually a tracking code that the referrer sets. Pinterest does not have its own tracking code because they are not referring your product. A lot of the time, if the tracking code is that long, it is Zazzle's marketing efforts and their tracking code. Not all the time. When you see a more simple code, that will most likely be from a someone else affiliating whether it is another Z creator or just someone that only affiliates.
If you want to see where your own marketing efforts come from you can add a tracking code to the end of your links in a lot of places, for example Pinterest. I used to put one that included the day I pinned it and the board to which it was pinned. When you do that you can see exactly where your self referred links are coming from in your referral history report. Unfortunately, it is usually harder/almost impossible to decipher the longer strings.
eta- you can also add a tracking code when you affiliate for others and then you can see that in your referral history reports as well. As long as it is a link you put out there you can see the tracking code in the report otherwise you can see them in the sales emails for your 3rd party sales as long as there was one added.
