How may I hide Propser202 from being easily searched for in the spy tools?
How do I keep it from being searched for in my links to offers and LP's?
Should I also run it on a server separate from my landers?
Thanks in advance for the tips and tricks!
I see the Protect Your Prosper 202 (nuts) thread.
But this still ends up with propser202 in the link.
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;url=http://202TRACKERDOMAIN.com/tracking202/redirect/dl.php?t202id=<?php echo “$_GET[id]“; ?>&t202kw=<?php echo “$_GET[kw]“; ?>”>
Before I give some suggestions, I just want to clarify, because I don't want to give you totally the wrong advice! So - do you want to hide your landers from spy tools, or hide your Prosper domain from spy tools?
Landers hidden would be great.
Be great iof the didnt deduce the hops and only saw my links sas going straight to an offer rather than my landers.
I know spy tool use the propser202 and the diff propser links to track to both propser and mt landers.
Perhaps I'm just dreaming a little, but could you change t202id and t202kw to something completely different - just for the purpose of avoiding people searching for those terms in spy tools, then in the tracking202 landing.php file (the pixel) just change the GET parameters? It's not going to stop people stealing landers but it will make you less obvious...
As for spy tools not seeing your hops/landers I don't think that's possible without specifically redirecting them, e.g. based on IP, so basically cloaking of spy tools. In the end is the effort really worth it? People will copy regardless, and in any case people can see your ads as real users wherever you are advertising, so everything is out in the open.
There's no reason you couldn't change the tracking parameter names - although you'd want to pretty thoroughly check through Prosper's code to make sure that they aren't used/defined elsewhere. An in-file search with Grep or Windows search should do the trick.
As for hiding the landers from spy tools - it's doable, but as Zeno says, only by tracking the IP of each spy tool and banning it in your web server configuration.
However, one idea does come to mind that might work.
Most visitors are only going to see your landers once, right?
Spy tools, however, will return day after day, because the only way to tell if a placement/ad/LP is working is to see how long it's been running.
So you could analyse your logs or tracking data, look for IPs that return time after time, and ban any IP you see more than 5 times - or redirect them to a page consisting entirely of kittens performing Gangnam Style, or something similar.
That's doable, and if the spy tools actually "click" through the ads, it'd work. It's a lot of effort, though, and it's not terribly hard to get around for the spy tools.
Is there a way to add some code on your server to limit the number of views per day by a particular ip?
for example lander A gets viewed by IP 1.2.3.4 by a real user. he comes back later from another ad and clicks again. acceptable. but if he comes back a 3rd time that same day, he gets redirected to a different page? that would still let spy tools in, but it could limit your exposure and prevent spy tools from logging all your landers. If you're split testing multiple landers, there would be no way for them to see all of them and they might not even grab the best of the bunch.
It's very doable, but a quick look around the Web tells me that there's not much out there that will do it out of the box.
You could either use a simple PHP script included in all your landers to do it, or you could hack either a firewall rule or one of the Apache QOS modules to do the job. It's probably an afternoon or two's work for a reasonably competent sysadmin.
I guess if you guys don't know how, then it's not being done much.
They spy tools shall forever compel creativity.
is CPVLabs easier to hide?