How to Validate the Thank-You Page Hack

Follow these simple steps to ensure that your Thank-You Page Hack is tracking optins properly

Steps:

1. Click Tracking on Registration Page & Thank-You page

2. Email Appears on Thank-You Page

3. Run a Live Test

1. Click Tracking on Registration Page & Thank-You Page

1. Go to your Traffic Validation Tool (Tracking Tools > Traffic Validation).
2. Click "Manually Validate URL" at the top of the page.
3. With "Traffic Detection" selected on the pop-up, paste the complete URL for your Registration Page. 
   
4. Click "Start Test".
5. Your Registration Page will open in a new tab - wait for the page to load completely, then click back to the Traffic Validation Tool and click "End Test"
   1. If it passes, repeat the process with your Thank-You Page URL.
   2. If it fails, test the URL one more time. If it fails again, follow these steps to troubleshoot: Validate Wicked Tracking Code is On Your Pages.

2. Email Appears on Thank-You Page

1. Go to the optin page and enter a test email into the form.
2. Submit the form.
3. Check the UTM parameters of the Thank-You Page URL and ensure that the test email was passed through.
   1. If you see the email in the UTM parameters, go to step 3.
   2. If you don't see the email in the UTM parameters...
      1. Ensure that there is no UTM stripping
      2. Ensure that the functionality of passing the user email to the Thank-You page is properly set up. The user email needs to be passed to the Thank-You page in order for the optin to be captured.

3. Run a Live Test

1. Follow these steps to run a live test on your optin: HOW TO RUN A LIVE TEST.
   1. If it passes your live test, your thank-you page hack is working, and Wicked is tracking your optin properly.
   2. If it doesn't pass the live test, email the details of your live test to support@wickedreports.com, so that our support team can assist.