TapBaton Journal
A closer look at the click.
Practical guides to the journey between a campaign link and a recorded conversion.

The link works. Why does the campaign journey break?
A practical guide to testing in-app browser journeys, choosing useful fallbacks and measuring what actually happened after the tap.
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A practical audit for campaign parameters
Trace UTMs, click IDs and custom fields through redirects, catch encoding mistakes and test the conversion return path before spending on traffic.
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What in-app browsers do to your campaign tracking
Why in-app browser tracking loses sessions, cookies and parameters, and how to test the route, record four outcomes and return conversions server-side.
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What a postback URL is, and how to build one
A postback URL reports a conversion server to server. The three fields that matter, why macros differ by partner, and where to look when nothing arrives.
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One purchase, three systems: how to test the conversion loop
Follow a conversion from the store or network through your tracker to an ad platform, with practical checks for identity, duplicates and delivery.
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How to detect an in-app browser from the user agent
Which markers identify an in-app browser in the user agent, what a substring check can honestly prove, and how to stop your marker list going stale.
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