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Hello guys,

I have a question regarding Step 5 Getting Links (from http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread...Campaign-Setup). The guide says that I should paste the link into my traffic source where it asks for the link you wish to use. Does it mean I will have to paste it to POF if I'm using POF as my traffic source? Is the field in the picture below the correct field to paste my link to?


I also have a question regarding the Step 4 Set Up Redirect Page for Prosper202. I'm using Adobe Muse to create my landing pages. Let's say my landing page is index.html and I've located the links that goes to my offer. When I opened my landing page, it appeared like the picture below:


After changing my links, it appeared like the picture below:



Am I doing this correctly?

And one final question. Do I need to install webserver and php setting on my pc in order to run Prosper202?

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1. Yes, you would put it in the box labelled Click-thru URL

2. Everything inside the quote marks after href= is your link, e.g. href="http://mylink.com". Your changes as in the 2nd picture are not correct.

Firstly, you will need to get prosper202 (more specifically, tracking202), installed and working on a web server. You do not do any of this on your PC - no hosting websites, tracking systems, running a server etc. I would recommend getting the starter VPS from BeyondHosting if you haven't already as they will install tracking202 for you.

Once installed you are in a better position to do... everything!

Now, once that is sorted you can copy/paste the supplied landing page code to the top of your webpage file. You rename your file index.html to index.php. Then, where you have links to the the offer, you will replace the href=" " with some PHP code e.g.

<a href="<?php echo $ClickThruLink; ?>"></a>

That then gets automagically replaced with the right link in the live page that is on your server.

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Sorry. I still don't get it. In this step 4 of the tutorial it says (http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread...Campaign-Setup):

1 - Copy code ("<?php"), save in new document as index_redir at the end and with the .php extension (eg. index_redir.php)

2 - Open landing page and locate links that goes to offer (picture below) - the second code that starts with "<a class" is an Adobe Muse anchor effect (It does not direct the link to the offer)



3 - Change link to <a href="index_redir.php">

4 - Save landing page as index.php

5 - From Step 4 (No. 8)Upload your landing page and the new document you created to the same directory on your web server (and the location you specified in Step 3).

I'm a bit confused here.

a. Do I have to upload my landing pages as .php to the server before the whole process?

b. What does it mean by (and the location you specified in Step 3)?

c. If I were to directly replace the href=" " with some PHP code e.g.

<a href="<?php echo $ClickThruLink; ?>"></a>

it contradicts with the guide above. Is this an alternative way to set up redirect page?

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a. Do I have to upload my landing pages as .php to the server before the whole process?

yes

b. What does it mean by (and the location you specified in Step 3)?

It's the same folder where index_redir.php is uploaded

c. If I were to directly replace the href=" " with some PHP code e.g.

<a href="<?php echo $ClickThruLink; ?>"></a>

it contradicts with the guide above. Is this an alternative way to set up redirect page?

No it doesn't contradict that, just put that as the link and it will work fine

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I understand now - you're using vanilla p202 but I was thinking of the STM-modded p202 so had the wrong idea! You may want to use the STM-modded p202 instead, it has added functionality and the landing page setup is easier to work with (uses PHP only, no intermediate _redir.php files).

In any case:

b. In step 3 you added a landing page URL, e.g. mydomain.com/mylander.php. The lander has to be uploaded there and named mylander.php... otherwise tracking202 won't point people to your lander.

c. Ignore me. Just put whatever_redir.php

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wait what is vanilla p202? Is it the one you download via softalicious?

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Until the end of the month vanilla p202 is the very old(3 years old) version of p202 you can download free from http://prosper202.com

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Yes. The one downloaded via softalicious. And I've confirmed with Beyond Hosting. It is the vanilla p202 version.

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