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01-17-2014 02:30 PM #1 olimits7 (Member)
Prosper 202 Tutorial?

Hi,

Ok, I just installed Prosper 202 on a new domain I created just for this software.

Can anyone recommend any good video tutorials or websites that I can go over to learn how to properly use this software?

Also, would this software help me in my scenario? I'll explain below...

I'm a merchant advertising my own website; so I don't have an affiliate account on any affiliate network websites. So would I still be able to use this software to track / split-test different "ads" and "landing pages" to see which ones convert the best? Will I still be able to use "subids" to track as well?

Thank you!

01-17-2014 02:59 PM #2 caurmen (Administrator)

Check my signature - the official STM guide to Prosper 202 is linked there!

And yes, Prosper will still help you check which ads and landing pages convert, although you will need to track subids through the website and have some custom code written to activate the postback links. However, that's a fairly small outsourced job.

01-17-2014 03:10 PM #3 olimits7 (Member)

Ok, thank you...I'll check out the link in your signature.

I'm currently under the "Campaigns" section, and I see I have to enter in an "Affiliate URL"; since I don't have a "Affiliate URL" what URL can be used instead?

I'm sorry, since this is new to me I have a bunch of different thoughts going through my head. Can you give me breakdown steps (overview) of how exactly I have to set this up with "subids" on my website this way I can explain properly to my programmer on how to set this up? What is a postback link?

Thank you, again!

01-17-2014 06:21 PM #4 Mr Baffoe (Veteran Member)

I also have videos here http://tracking202.com/videos/ and here http://youtube.com/t202nana


But to answer your questions, For simple tracking all you need to do is to put in whatever url you want to send people to as your affiliate url. On your conversion page put either the image pixel or the universal smart pixel from step #8.

For more advanced tracking do something like this

Code:
www.yourdomain.com?subid1=[[subid]]
Then have php or server side code on the back end to pull in and save subid1 and the value passed in give the user a cookie from your domain as well (now you have twice as many cookies to use for matching up conversion).

On the conversion page do a s2s ping to your p202 post back url but also place your conversion pixel, the reason for this is to ensure full tracking of your conversions. Optionally you could also log the conversions into a database as well or tie it into your ecommence or shopping cart program.

01-17-2014 08:00 PM #5 olimits7 (Member)

Thanks for the replies...very helpful!

So in my scenario I would actually put my "offer URL page" where my email submit form is located as my "affiliate URL"?

Then I would just create a bunch of "landers" and "ads" to be able to test which "lander" and "ad" converts the best to my "offer URL page"?

So most of the time "landers" should NOT contain any email submit forms, but it should just have a "call to action" link/button that redirects my visitor to my "offer URL page"?

Thank you, again!

01-17-2014 08:54 PM #6 bbrock32 (Administrator)

For your own offer you don't need subids, just place the img pixel on the conversion page.

If you want to track email submits, the the email submit page as the affiliate offer.

If you want to use a presell set that up as a landing page otherwise just get a link from prosper for a direct link campaign.

This will send users to your email submit page right away and will track how many input their email.

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