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03-03-2014 08:48 PM #1 dnguyen (Member)
newbie adult follow along

Whats going on stm fam! I finally ran my first campaign over the weekend after what seemed like forever of reading.

Offer : Milfaholic (i guess its dating?)
Payout: 1.75
Country : Canada
Tracking : STM/prosper202

Total spend : 10.25
Revenue : 3.50
ROI : -66% (I think?)

So what I did so far was I put up 5 banners+2lp. My banners are pretty much different from each other, I didnt know what the proper strategy to testing banners out was. I made all different headlines, all different pictures, all different colors. I was planning on just picking the best banner out of the 5 and then test out each variable from there. My lp's were pretty much the same, but different headlines. I left it running for about 2 and a half days non stop and I think I messed up on my tracking. Anyways here are my stats.

On TrafficJunky : Impressions 28,805
Clicks 139
CTR 0.479%

On STMtracker/Prosper : Clicks 7
LP 1 : 5 Clicks, 1 Click Through, CTR 20%
LP 2 : 2 Clicks, 1 Click Through, CTR 50%

On Cake : 03/01/2014 - 7 Clicks, 2 Conversions
03/02/2014 - 6 Clicks
03/03/2014- 6 Clicks

I don't really know what to make of these stats. I feel like something went wrong here. If TJ said i got 139 clicks wouldn't, prosper show 139 clicks as opposed to just 7? Any feedback would be appreciated!

03-03-2014 11:01 PM #2 zeno (Administrator)

Well, on the bright side you ran at -66% ROI with an apparent 95% click loss. Not bad? lol.

Firstly, go to the visitors or spy tab in P202 and make sure you are looking at ALL clicks rather than real/filtered and that no other filters are on. Secondly, test the link you have used in your ads. Make sure clicking out works and that the entire flow is as you expect.

139 clicks and very little coming into p202 is obviously cause for concern and the likely scenario is that something is misconfigured somewhere.

03-04-2014 01:18 AM #3 dnguyen (Member)

no doubt. I went to the spy tool like u said and there were no filters and I had 26 ip's on the third day, but then when i went to the visitors tab it showed only the 7.

03-06-2014 06:53 PM #4 dnguyen (Member)

I ran my campaign live again with new banners and landing pages and i re did all the steps on setting up the tracker and prosper didnt track any of my clicks at all this time. I really dont know what im doing wrong. Anyone got any ideas?

03-06-2014 11:09 PM #5 zeno (Administrator)

Weird. Lets walk through the steps together to make sure nothing is amiss. I'll set up a campaign in the STM-modded p202 tracker right now and list the steps it took:

1. Went to setup tab > campaigns. I'm assuming you have affiliate networks already added under categories.
2. Set aff network, campaign name, added in affiliate URL which I'm just using as http://google.com. Payout $1, cloaking off, clicked add.
3. #4 Landing pages > simple > set aff network and then aff campaign, nicknamed it lander 1, set URL as http://mydomain.com/lander.php
4. #5 Get LP code > simple landing page > set aff network, then campaign, then landing page = lander 1 > generate tracking link, which looked like this:

Code:

<?php
      
      // ------------------------------------------------------------------- 
      //
      // Tracking202 PHP Redirection, created on Fri Mar, 2014
      //
      // This PHP code is to be used for the following landing page.
      // http://mydomain.com/lander.php
      //                       
      // -------------------------------------------------------------------
      global $clickThruLink;
            
      $clickThruLink = 'http://mytrackingdomain.com/tracking202/redirect/lp.php?lpip=7267&'.$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
      /*Sample: <a href="<?php echo $clickThruLink ?>">Join!</a>*/      
    ?>

5. Edited my landing page. To the top of the page I added the tracking code (with fluff removed) which gave this:

Code:

<?php
global $clickThruLink;
$clickThruLink = 'http://clicktempest.info/tracking202/redirect/lp.php?lpip=7267&'.$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"> 
<html>
<head>..... and so on

6. Added the ClickThruLink as my CTA button URL, wherever it happened to be on the page:

Code:

<a href="<?php echo $clickThruLink ?>"></a>

7. Saved, then went back to p202 > #7 Get Links. Direct Link setup. Chose aff network, then campaign, then landing page as method of promotion, then exact landing page, then PPC network then account, set c1 as lets, c2 as fix and c3 as this. It generated this link:

Code:

http://mytrackingdomain.com/tracking202/redirect/tracker.php?t202id=9332&c1=lets&c2=fix&c3=this&t202kw=

I then loaded that URL in another browser window to test it, but I added a keyword after t202kw to give this:

Code:

http://mytrackingdomain.com/tracking202/redirect/tracker.php?t202id=9332&c1=lets&c2=fix&c3=this&t202kw=test_click

I went to the spy tab to check for the click. I saw nothing. I had filters in for the ppc network/account and aff network/campaign so I removed those and set Display to Show All Clicks. I get this:

8. I tried with other t202kw values and it continues to give them in the spy. If I click out on the landing page it redirects to google.com and I can see the clickthrough in the analyze > landing pages tab.

Now, for the tracking to work it is paramount that you have the database setup working correctly, no problems with read permissions, etc. However p202 should alert you if this isn't working (have you seen any weird errors on any pages?) and it would be odd for some clicks to not track while others do.

If p202 isn't tracking your own test clicks then it is definitely not worth rolling out a live campaign.

03-07-2014 03:29 AM #6 dnguyen (Member)

holy i figured out why.. jeez when i was looking at my stats i had the date on wrong.. thanks for the help zeno you were a huge help lol

03-07-2014 04:12 AM #7 zeno (Administrator)

Haha yeah I figured it might be something simple :P

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