How to connect ArtisanClo to your CAKE
ArtisanClo sits on your site and decides who may reach the offer. CAKE keeps running your campaigns as before and reports every conversion back to ArtisanClo — so CR and revenue show up in your cloaking statistics right next to the bots that were filtered out.
How a visit flows
ArtisanClo decides on your site, before the visit ever reaches CAKE. After that, the visit follows your campaign as usual.
A visit from an ad link
A person or a reviewer clicks the ad and lands on your site.
The check on your site
The ArtisanClo JS tag or PHP file sends the visit to be checked: person or bot.
ArtisanClo decides
A person gets a visit label and the offer link; everyone else gets the White Page.
A person moves on to your CAKE campaign carrying the visit label, and CAKE sends them to the offer as usual.
Bots, reviewers and spy services get the White Page and never reach CAKE.
How to connect
Your site connects to ArtisanClo the usual way — with the JS tag or the PHP file. For conversions to come back from CAKE, there are four more steps: in the ArtisanClo flow and in your CAKE account.
- 01
Select CAKE in the flow
In an ArtisanClo flow in “Cloaking” mode, open the “Tracker” step, go to the “External tracker” block and pick CAKE from the list.
- 02
Add the visit label to the offer link
The offer link leads to your CAKE campaign. The “Add to the link” button appends the visit label to every offer in the flow, and the field turns green.
- 03
Paste the notification address into CAKE
The link in the status line opens a window with the address. Copy it and paste it into your CAKE account; the “?” button next to the tracker list shows exactly where.
- 04
Wait for the first conversion
Once CAKE reports it, the status line says “Conversions are already coming in”, and CR and revenue appear in your cloaking statistics.
- Mode
- “Cloaking” with an external tracker
- Where the decision is made
- On your site, before the visit reaches CAKE
- Your campaigns
- Stay in CAKE as they are
- Free trial
- Works
- 1In the CAKE affiliate portal, open the campaign's pixels and postbacks.
- 2Paste the notification address as is: its values are wrapped in hash signs, which is how CAKE writes them.
What ArtisanClo adds to your tracker
CAKE keeps running your campaigns and counting conversions. ArtisanClo answers one question — who is behind the visit — and explains the answer.
A trust score for every visit
Network, device and browser signals add up to a trust score; VPNs, proxies, data centers and robot browsers are caught along the way. The check runs on your site, so CAKE only receives visits that have already been sorted.
Shared memory of bots
When an ad-review service, a platform robot or a program posing as a browser is identified with certainty in any account, its next visit to your flow gets the White Page at once. Real people with a doubtful network, a VPN or no JavaScript never go into this memory.
Shield and auto-shield
While a review is running, only visits with the platform's click ID — fbclid, gclid, ttclid and more — reach the offer. Auto-shield raises the shield on its own when review traces spike above the usual level.
A reason for every decision
Each click in the log carries one of 83 reasons, and its breakdown shows at which step the visit was stopped — you see which check fired, not just that one did.
How to get started
From the free trial to the first conversions in your cloaking statistics.
- 01
Start the free trial
Working with CAKE is already available on it.
- 02
Create a flow in ArtisanClo
Pick the traffic source, the White Page and “Cloaking” mode, and use your CAKE campaign as the offer link.
- 03
Connect your site and CAKE
Put the JS tag or PHP file from the connection window on your site, then select CAKE in the “Tracker” step and paste the notification address into your CAKE account.
- 04
Watch CR and revenue
Conversions from CAKE appear in your cloaking statistics — next to every visit's decision and its reason.
If you ever want everything in one place
ArtisanClo has a tracker built in. In “Cloaking + Tracker” mode the flow itself counts clicks, spend, conversions, profit and ROI and takes postbacks from affiliate networks — with no server of your own.
Frequently asked questions
01How does ArtisanClo work together with CAKE?
ArtisanClo sits on your site and decides who may reach the offer. The offer link leads to your CAKE campaign and carries a visit label; CAKE sends the person to the offer as usual and remembers the label. When a conversion comes in, CAKE reports it to ArtisanClo on its own. To ArtisanClo, your tracker is what a traffic source is to a tracker.
02Do I need to change anything in my CAKE campaigns?
No. Campaigns, offers and their settings stay in CAKE as they are. You only paste the ArtisanClo notification address into your CAKE account once — it is shared by all your flows.
03What is a visit label and why is it needed?
It is a number ArtisanClo gives every visit. It travels to CAKE with the offer link and comes back with the conversion — that is how ArtisanClo knows which visit brought the lead or the sale. The “Add to the link” button appends the label to every offer in the flow.
04How do I know everything is set up?
Check the status line in the “Tracker” step. “Conversions are already coming in” means you are done. If notifications arrive but no visits match them, make sure the visit label is in the offer link and the address in CAKE was pasted as is, without edits.
05What happens to bots and reviewers?
They get the White Page right on your site and never reach CAKE. You can see why a visit was turned away in the ArtisanClo click log: every visit has its reason, and the click breakdown shows the step where it was stopped.
06Part of my traffic runs through Keitaro or Binom. Is that fine?
Yes. The external tracker is chosen in each flow separately, so some flows can work with CAKE and others with Keitaro or Binom. Keitaro and Binom also have their own connection methods: a stream filter in Keitaro and a gate in the Binom landing.
07Which plan includes the CAKE connection?
It works from the free trial and on paid plans. Paid plans are paid in cryptocurrency, and clicks are not billed.
08Can I move to the built-in tracker later?
Yes. Switch the flow to “Cloaking + Tracker”, and ArtisanClo counts clicks, spend, conversions and ROI itself. While you keep CAKE, its conversions show up in the cloaking statistics.
Connect ArtisanClo to your CAKE
Start the free trial, put the cloak on your site and select CAKE in the flow — CR and revenue will show up in your cloaking statistics.