Prosper202 Idiot - setup issue

[b_sun]

I have Prosper202 set up on a Beyond VPS and I have setup my first campaign. I have a feeling its completely wrong and fucked up.

My setup is: I have my own affiliate site / lander with 3 different types of outbound links on said lander to the sole merchant site. 1 to the front page, 1 to the download page, and 1 to the purchase page. I also have links from an opt in email I want to track, as well as links in an autoresponder I want to track.

I am SEO'ng this site so I started my first PPC network as "Organic". I have the affiliate network as the merchant, since its a sole merchant. Then I set up a campaign for each one of these scenarios above and ended up with 7 campaigns under this network.

I am about to do some ppc ads to the site and went into Propser202, added the PPC network. The trouble comes in when I am trying to figure out how to get a link for the network. I go to Text ads, select the merchant as my affiliate network, and then it wants me to pick one of the 7 campaigns I made. HERP DERP DERP. This can't be right.

MY GOAL: Is to add the PPC Network to the existing setup for the campaign and track my profitability. Surely there is a way.

I'm sure my setup is wrong. Any help that can be thrown my way I would be most appreciative.

 

[Garrett]

Prosper isn't really built if you want to track paths like that. Anyways, you say

The trouble comes in when I am trying to figure out how to get a link for the network

you can just skip that step. Your traffic is organic so their is no need. As long as the javascript is set on your lander and your outbound URL is correct, you are good to go

Check out CPV Lab... on the salespage video it shows how you can track paths and emails like you want

 

[-God-]

I just dicked rolled myself. I thought you can do that with advanced LP, then I thought I'll just check. Then I typed in my 202 URL, forgetting my ip is new, and dickrolled myself. Joy.

 

[b_sun]

Prosper isn't really built if you want to track paths like that. Anyways, you say



you can just skip that step. Your traffic is organic so their is no need. As long as the javascript is set on your lander and your outbound URL is correct, you are good to go

Check out CPV Lab... on the salespage video it shows how you can track paths and emails like you want

So 202 can't handle multiple traffic sources to a lander? How can that be?

My current traffic is organic, but I want to add PPC traffic. If I don't give the PPC network a special link, how can I track the incoming traffic?

Did I set up my affiliate links right with 7 different campaigns?

Man I will even pay someone to get on Skype with me and help a tartar.

 

[Garrett]

So 202 can't handle multiple traffic sources to a lander? How can that be?

My current traffic is organic, but I want to add PPC traffic. If I don't give the PPC network a special link, how can I track the incoming traffic?

Did I set up my affiliate links right with 7 different campaigns?

Man I will even pay someone to get on Skype with me and help a tartar.

my bad, I totally didn't read your post close enough. I thought you were trying to track multiple landers, like an optin form, then a thank you page, then another confirmation page sorta thing. After reading again you have 1 LP with 3 outbound links on it. Are you using an advanced landing page setup? ...because you need to be using that for what you are doing I think.

any reason why you have 7 campaigns? because you should have just 1. you can track specific things with keys you set yourself in t202kw=yourkey ... setup a traffic source as Autoresponder, and track the emails with keywords t202kw=email1 , t202kw=email2 , t202kw=email3 , etc...

it can get fucking confusing I know. I would drive your PPC traffic to a different page just to make it easy on your brain. Can't really split test pages getting organic traffic, so setup a new subdirectory just for your PPC landers.

 

[b_sun]

my bad, I totally didn't read your post close enough. I thought you were trying to track multiple landers, like an optin form, then a thank you page, then another confirmation page sorta thing. After reading again you have 1 LP with 3 outbound links on it. Are you using an advanced landing page setup? ...because you need to be using that for what you are doing I think.

any reason why you have 7 campaigns? because you should have just 1. you can track specific things with keys you set yourself in t202kw=yourkey ... setup a traffic source as Autoresponder, and track the emails with keywords t202kw=email1 , t202kw=email2 , t202kw=email3 , etc...

it can get fucking confusing I know. I would drive your PPC traffic to a different page just to make it easy on your brain. Can't really split test pages getting organic traffic, so setup a new subdirectory just for your PPC landers.

Thanks for the response.

I have 7 campaigns because I have 7 different scenarios I wanted to track. I have 3 different outbound affiliate links on the lander, 1 from an opt in email, 1 from an ebook, & 2 from an autoresponder.

I am using the advanced landing page with the javascript, with 7 php files.

On that front it sounds like I could narrow it down to 3 campaigns for the 3 different affiliate links, and then track sources by t202kw. That makes alot of sense, thanks. I'm still not getting where I would add the t202kw.

I still would like to learn how to track multiple traffic sources to the same lander. This is a wordpress install, I don't know how I would put the site in a different sub-d.

 

[Garrett]

So 202 can't handle multiple traffic sources to a lander? How can that be?

You know what? This is a good question. Maybe someone else who understands Prosper in and out can chime in. Personally, I use separate landers for every traffic source so I can split test landers for that particular one. An example would be PPV and PPC...totally different style landers. Maybe one will allow a popup while the other doesn't.

With organic traffic, the only thing I really care to track is my conversions of course, and my LP CTR with the NerdyAffiliate mod.

For any paid traffic, I give it it's own lander and point all traffic to /whatev/index.php

Inside index.php, I put the rotator script. Then I name each lander I split test 1.php, 2.php, 3.php and so on. The way the rotator script works is it just grabs the HTML and loads it. So everytime you go to /whatev/index.php it will load the different landers with their respective inbound javascript codes and outbound URL affiliate links.

I really wish I was more knowledgable with coding and how Prosper works because feel like something I say could totally contradict something else and how it really works, ya know? TO be safe, just setup different landing pages for different traffic sources. Shouldn't they be different and independent of each other anyways?

 

[b_sun]

In a normal lander scenario, yes, you are right. This is a little different.

I think I've figure it out. You don't have to tie the network to the text ad if you select your advanced landing page. I was over-thinking it, shocking. Not even sure what the point of the PPC network entries are. Guess that's what it says (Optional) in that section.

 

[b_sun]

In a normal lander scenario, yes, you are right. This is a little different.

I think I've figure it out. You don't have to tie the network to the text ad if you select your advanced landing page. I was over-thinking it, shocking. Not even sure what the point of the PPC network entries are. Guess that's what it says (Optional) in that section.

Rather, you don't have to tie the traffic source to an individual campaign if you use the advanced landing page when you build your text ad and create IB links.

Win.