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Help: where to put {creativeid:}? (3)


06-07-2013 08:47 PM #1 the night fox (Member)
Help: where to put {creativeid:}?

I'm advertising a commission junction product on Plenty of fish and I'm using Prosper for tracking.

To track the creative ids which link should {creativeid:} go in? Should it be in the kw= part at the end of the prosper link or in the subid part of the commission junction link or do I put it in the URL in the campaign section of Prosper202?


Any help would be greatly appreciated.


06-08-2013 12:00 PM #2 caurmen (Administrator)

You don't need to use {creativeid:} at all, and in fact, I'd recommend avoiding it unless you have some automated solution in place to match it up with your ads.

Normally on Prosper I'd recommend creating a custom keyword - Mr Green's POF Uploader will do this automatically (refer to the guide on how to use it). If you're not using that, just make the keyword something like nameofcampaign-adnumber, so you can easily see in Prosper which campaign and which ad the keyword refers to.

Why? If you use {creativeid:} as your keyword, your keyword list will entirely consist of strings of numbers, which you'll then have to search for one by one in the POF interface. Manually set CAMPAIGNNAME-ADNUMBER, on the other hand, and you'll immediately know what ad that keyword refers to.

If you REALLY want to use {creativeid:}, you use it like {age:} or {state:} - put it in the Prosper link. In #7, Get Links, in Prosper, you can either set them as C variables or as the keyword. Or, as you say, you could put them at the end of the prosper link.

However, as I say, I'd advise manually setting keywords.


06-08-2013 12:10 PM #3 the night fox (Member)

Thanks that makes things much clearer!


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