Trying to understand how the Eloqua cookies work and relate to a user

Greetings,

I'll just start where I think my basic understanding is for the moment and move what I seek to clarify and accomplish.

High level understanding:


  • The user hits your Web site that contains the "Eloqua traceability Code" in this topic.

  • Cookie is created that is grouped with ".". Eloqua.com.

  • The user goes to a form and submits their contact information OR surfed a bit before hitting a form

  • … At this point, I get a little misty... *.

  • Eloqua treats the presentation (or create a new record or at the e-mail address and adds the information as prescribed in the existing record)

  • (Will not enter treatment programs because they are not relevant to my question)

  • Eloqua is to the top of the confirmation page

* So here's what I'm foggy on...

  1. How/where the cookie will be created. I followed to this 'image' tag in the elqImg.js file. (http://now.eloqua.com/visitor/v200/svrGP.aspx?pps=3 & siteid ={SITEIDHERE} & ref2 = elqNone & tzo = {TIMEZONECODE} & ms = 933 & elqCookie = 1). This is the only method of creation of the cookie, calling this URL?

  2. This GUID in the ELOQUA cookie, is the one that is now linked to the folder of the user once they succeeded to convert?

The goal

What I do, it is a construction of a method aside server to validate users return, those who have converted for example via a form and are known to me.

I have an idea what happens to the code, I'm just here to chop the process on the side of Eloqua how it handles data as well as what look for it system to properly attach the USER = this cookie GUID (if that even happens).

If it's worth whatever it is we're always on Eloqua 9 If this has an impact on the method.

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you kindly

Hello Adam,.

I'm not quite clear on the use cases that explained you at the end, but I'll explain how the creation of cookie:

When you followed the scripts on your page - in this case, you have the old synchronous tracking scripts, the call to the function img.js below

results in the creation of cookie. Please note that there is no code client which translates into the creation of cookie, but when this line of code above is executed, this triggers a call to our svrGP.aspx page - as you have already noticed, and exist on our server-side. This page performs certain functions among which is to create a GUID and drop a cookie on the browser if it isn't one already. This page is also responsible for the creation of a visitor profile, which is a record in our visitor table in the database that has a GUID primary key - which is what contains the Eloqua cookie.

Thank you

Tarek

Tags: Marketers

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