Serious P202 frustration! (11)
Hi guys
Wonder if any of you can help me, maybe I'm making this too complicated.
First of all, I have 3 campaigns and 2 LPs.
I have set up the campaigns in P202 just fine and subsequently have 3 tracking codes for my three campaigns.
I have set up the rotation for my landers using the php redirect method and that works fine too.
HOWEVER
In order for me to be able to track my camps and landers in P202 there is a snippet of JavaScript that needs to be added to the bottom of each lander.
This is fine but the problem I'm having is that in order to generate this JS you need to select a campaign from the drop down on the LP code page.
As I mentioned, I have 3 campaigns so in order to track these in P202 do I need to generate 3 different JS snippets for each LP?
Is it even possible to have 3 different JS snippets on an LP?
This is driving me nuts! 
When you're setting up your offers, make it one offer (eg. Adult Dating UK) and rotate the three different campaigns. Then you only have one campaign to choose.
This is of course assuming you're wanting to rotate between your three campaigns, but it sounds like that's what you're trying to do.
Originally Posted by hannahmcintyre
I see what you're saying but it's not the campaigns I want to rotate, it's the landing pages.
If I don't run three links for each campaign then I won't be able to track at campaign level in P202 which is important considering they're segmented by age group. I would just have a load of click data with no idea which campaign it came from, surely?
You'll need to duplicate your landing pages, one per campaign. Then stick the relevant bit of JS on each.
This is an annoying side-effect of how Prosper does its tracking. It has advantages too, though - because you're tracking on the lander you don't need a redirect before the first landing page.
Originally Posted by caurmen
So hang on, 3 campaigns = 6 landing pages. This could get confusing.
Do I not need a redirect at all? Confused as a MF right now!
What Prosper202 are you using? Self-hosted or the paid version?
I think the issue here may be that you are trying to split something into separate campaigns when you should just be using subids i.e. c-values.
Make 1 campaign e.g. Adult Dating UK.
Use that tracking link for all campaigns but append subids to the URL, e.g.
...&t202kw=something&c1=18-21
...&t202kw=something&c1=22-25
...&t202kw=something&c1=26-30
You can then drilldown by t202kw, c1, c2 etc. in the Group Overview (or whatever exists in normal p202!).
Originally Posted by zeno
Your solution makes much more sense, I suspected I was over-complicating things.
So from what you've written I would get something like this
...&t202kw=Banner1&c1=18-21
...&t202kw=Banner1&c2=22-25
...&t202kw=Banner1&c3=26-30
Where I assign the custom 'c' value?
Close - you would have &c1 for each of them. You assign a specific c1 value to each campaign from your traffic source (18-21, 22-25, 26-30) and this identifies them in Prosper202.
As an analogy, you are giving each of them a specific name tag with Bob, Dick and James on them.
In your slightly different config, you gave Bob a name card, Dick a green tie and James a red hat.
Originally Posted by zeno
Okay I'll give this a shot and see how I get on.
As ever, MASSIVE thank you!
Holy shit this worked like a peach!
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