Introduction to Coreg - Step by Step Guide (36)
As promised in my other post about coreg , here's the "Intro to Coreg Paths" tutorial.
I am going to discuss what a coreg path is , how can you set one up ( example files included ) and how to track it using P202.
1 - What is a Coreg Path and How Does it Work
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A co-registration path is a series of offers in a row that the user goes through.
On a coreg path you don't get paid per lead but you do a revenue share with the company owning the path.
Varying on the company , you can get from 50% up to 80% of the total revenue the user generates by filling the offers on the path.
Generally , the most known companies use mobile offers to monetize their paths ( and they own most of these mobile offers , that's why they can prepop certain fields etc ).
To get running with a coreg offer , the bare minimum you need is a form on your page to capture user's data ( name , email , phone no ) .
After the user fills in the data you send these to the path url via HTTP GET.
So basically the coreg company makes money in 2 ways :
1 - By hitting the users with a series of offers that generate immediate revenue ( and you get a % from this)
2 - By marketing to the user several times later using the data you collected and passed to them ( and you get nothing from this generated revenue which is more long term)
That's why I suggest you keep user's email and try to send a relevant offer as soon as they sign up ( but that will need a separate guide due to the problems of single optins ).
2 - How to Set up a Coreg Path
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Setting up a coreg path is pretty easy if you know some very basic PHP.
Even if you don't , you should understand this guide without problems.
I will try to cover every detail.
While you can use a super fancy sequence of landing pages , the bare minimum you need is 2 pages.
One to collect the data and another one that contains the iframed path along with the data you will pass.
The data collection form will look like this :
And the iframed page should look like this :
Now let's see the source code of how it should look :
<form method='get' action='step2.php' > <tr> <td class="formRowTitle">First Name:</td> <td class="formRowInput"><input type="text" value="" id="leadFirstName" name="leadFirstName" maxlength="35" size="15"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="formRowTitle">Last Name:</td> <td class="formRowInput"><input type="text" value="" id="leadLastName" name="leadLastName" maxlength="35" size="15"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="formRowTitle">Email Address:</td> <td class="formRowInput"><input type="text" value="test@gmail.com" id="leadEmail" name="leadEmail" maxlength="35" size="25"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="formRowTitle">Cell Phone:</td> <td class="formRowInput"><input type="text" value="" id="leadCellPhone1" name="leadCellPhone1" maxlength="3" size="3">-<input type="text" value="" id="leadCellPhone2" name="leadCellPhone2" maxlength="3" size="3">-<input type="text" value="" id="leadCellPhone3" name="leadCellPhone3" maxlength="4" size="4"></td> </tr> </form>
Here's how the second step ( one that contains the iframe with the path url) should look like :
This code grabs the data entered in step 1 and needs to be placed on the top of the second step :
[PHP]
<?
session_start();
$fname=@$_GET['leadFirstName'];
$lname=@$_GET['leadLastName'];
$email=@$_GET['leadEmail'];
$p1=@$_GET['leadCellPhone1'];
$subid="mysubid";
$p2=@$_GET['leadCellPhone2'];
$p3=@$_GET['leadCellPhone3'];
$phone=$p1.$p2.$p3;
$spkey="yoursilverpathkeygoeshere";
$gtkey="yourgametheorykeygoeshere";
$exit="exiturlgoeshere";
$exit=urlencode($exit);
$spurl="http://www.silver-path.com/path.php?src_key=$spkey&email=$email&first_name=$f name&last_name=$lname&mobile_number=$phone&country =US&subid1=$t202subid&exit_url=$exit";
$gturl="http://gtoffers.com/coreg/entry.php?p=$gtkey&limit=6&email=$email&framed=1&f name=$fname&lname=$lname&phone=$phone&sid=$t202sub id&redirect=$exit";
//Change to $url=$gturl to use gametheory instead of silverpath
$url=$spurl;
?>
[/PHP]
And this is the code of the iframe :
<iframe src="<?=$url?>" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" height="1200" width="100%"></iframe>
3 - How to track a Coreg Path using P202
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I have always used P202 to track coreg paths , but I heard that this is possible with CPVLab too after their last update.
I am going to test tracking with CPVLab and post it in a new thread.
Until then , I'll show you how I do this in prosper.
Let's say we have a path like the walmart one I showed in the other post.
It contains 3 pages and the flow is :
Main Page (Step1.php) -> Data Collection Form (Step2.php) -> Iframe (Step3.php)
To track this , I set Step1.php as the landing page in P202 and Step2.php as the offer.
With this setup I will be able to track the CTR only on the first page.
After this , you should edit slightly the php code on the step3 I posted above.
You should replace :
[PHP]$subid="mysubid";
[/PHP]
with
[PHP]$t202subid=$_COOKIE['tracking202subid'];
[/PHP]
After you have done this , you have only to upload revenue reports ( CSV ) from SilverPath and you will have exact revenue for each keyword.
To upload revenue in Prosper you have to go to Update > Upload Revenue Reports and select the file you download from SilverPath ( or any other path that can export subid stats to csv)
After that , you will see a screen like this one :
Pick the options like in the screenshot for SilverPath and you are done!
Now , I know you will have problems understanding the code here , that's why I'm sharing the full walmart page with the full source code.
Get it here :
http://stmforum.com/files/walmart.zip
That's all folks , if you have any questions feel free to ask here.
I wanted to be the first to 'thank' this post 
Great write up!
Great guide and plan to give it a try. One quick question I have is on the exit url. If I am iframing the offer and then they do a redirect to exit url wouldn't that offer appear within my iframe and not the whole window?
Also can you give us an idea of what some general numbers to shoot for are.
1. CTR from LP to LP2
2. CTR from LP2 to Co-reg offer
3. Conversion rate on Co-reg offer
Thanks again
Awesome, thanks for the detailed write-up! Going to get down and dirty with this soon.
It's stuff like this that reminds me how much I loath the guru's who make you believe 'Making Money Online' is as simple as sitting in your vacation home in Thailand and checking your email a few times a day while you make $1000's a day on clickbank.... and when you tell friends and family you are an Internet marketer they think you can teach them in a few days so they can give up their job in the next month....
Skill and knowledge like this isn't available in courses... it's known and shared by a small few - but then still requires the action takers to put it into practice -
Great share, and I have every intention of actioning this... Cheers bbrock, look forward to the updates.
Great write up Besmir on the technical aspects of coreg, I wanted to jump in and talk about some of the types of paths you can set up. When I say type I mean the frontend hook, the reason the user wants to put in their info and get through the path in the first place. Ideally the stronger the users need to get through the path the higher the RPU's, ie. you make more. Also, because we run mostly mobile offers on the path, if there is a good reason (or you can at least sell a good reason) to put in that cell number then it's going to yield higher RPU's.
So of course we talked about the prize giveaways in the other post and that definitely yields really high RPU's.
Other types of paths over the years have been
a) quizzes. eg. Take the Justin Bieber Quiz + form field: 'how well do you know Justin Bieber, enter your info to see your results' + midpath + exit URL you give them your quiz results and even can have social aspects to post the results on FB to get viral traffic
b) ringtones. eg. 'Get ringtones' lander (no mention of free for compliance) + midpath + exit URL: phonezoo.com where they actually do give free ringtones
ringtones are good of course because to the user it makes sense to put in their mobile number. You are signing up users to multiple offers so you are monetizing better than a single mobile ringtone mobile offer.
c) Coupons eg. Get $75 off X + midpath + exitURL: a CPA offer for coupons, there's tons our there. You can also do this with Daily Deals, but careful of quality.
d) My personal fave idea that hasn't really ever been done but I throw it out there if anybody wants to jump on it. It's quite a bit of work to build/design but I think it would be frickin cool. So as I said the more user engagement the higher the RPU's. So if you took ideas like the Make my Baby, Cartoonize Yourself, Elf Yourself that was massive a few xmas' ago, or any of the other goofy things people do on the internet to 'Morph Yourself' and built that frontend. So the user puts in photos of themselves and their mate and then info gather page + midpath + exit URL you'll need to give them some sort of results. I know the MMB was just a baby picture. The better the results the more viral you can make it.
Hope this was helpful to get the ideas flowing.
Do you know if it's possible to have something similar to what you described(mmb) into a fb app with the coreg path. Also, I think I read in the other path, that there was some limitation of earning $2500/week? Is this true with silverpath(It might have been another network so, sorry for the confusion)?
Thanks
We do weekly payouts for guys running over $2500/week on Silver Path or Mundo.
You can try on the Apps but FB hates mobile offers on banners in apps, so I'll assume they won't like coreg. If you have iphone apps we're running on those with our WAP sized path. You'd want to get approved on the itunes app store and then insert the path after.
when the script stores the emails to emails.txt do i need to change file permissions in order for it to work? It does not seem to be registering the emails.
Originally Posted by clicktrack
1 - Depends on niche , but 15% or higher should be good for email submits
2 - 80% +
3 - I generally use the RPU as a metric. Generally a $1.2 RPU is good for most paths I run.
Originally Posted by thefalcon
However that was just for the case study , if you want to collect emails use a third party provider or at least store the data in a database.
Looking at your walmart zip file, the email address I entered on the first page did not pass-through on the next page. Does something need to be altered in order for this to work? Thanks
I just paid a guy from freelancer to set me up with this. 
I should have waited a few days and I could have got the info for free. This is a great guide.
Sick thread!
In your php code in the email field on the 2nd page put <?php echo $_GET["leadEmail"]; ?>
That will pass the email from the first page to the 2nd 
1 - Depends on niche , but 15% or higher should be good for email submits
2 - 80% +
3 - I generally use the RPU as a metric. Generally a $1.2 RPU is good for most paths I run.
This is simply EPIC!
Another killer post for sure
It's good you supplied the HTML and PHP. A lot of people don't know the code to make the registration page, iframing the path, etc
Originally Posted by leeches
[PHP]
$email=$_GET["leadEmail"];
[/PHP]
That will auto fill the email field in step2 and also save the email in the emails.txt file.
This is awesome. Thanks. Also thanks to Fraser who chimed in with some great tips on how to run these.
Will you make a guide about monetizing the list?
Great posts thanks. Would love to see how you set this up in CPV Lab and send the leads to Aweber, though I have an idea (kinda, but not really).
Originally Posted by theguvna
What kind of programming knowledge does someone need to have to help out with this? What should I list for skills on odesk, for example? I've got no idea what's going on, not even enough to write an outsourcing listing.
Thanks.
if anyone wants to set this up for me, I'll pay you.
What do you need help with?
Bbrock laid it all out for us.
What I really want to learn is how to integrate it with aweber, and track with cpv lab.
As for the set up, I guess I want to have the email submit on the first page, then the full registration on the second page, like traditional zip/email submits you find on networks.
I know Bbrock said he was testing testing with cpv lab now and would write it up. I just wanna know how to set it up, cause I'd so much rather use cpv lab 100 times over using prosper.
He said for prosper:
"You should replace :
PHP Code:
$subid="mysubid";
with
PHP Code:
$t202subid=$_COOKIE['tracking202subid']; "
Is it just a different variable with cpv lab, and if so whats the variable? I know you can easily upload revenue per subid.
As we speak I am playing with CPVLab to find a way to track coregs correctly.
Going to write a new guide as soon as I have a practical solution that doesn't involve heavy programming and tweaking.
bbrock do you have any plans on releasing a guide on how to monetize the email list? Would be really appreciated. Both these co-reg guides has been the best!!
Originally Posted by tap1on
It will take some time to test everything thoroughly but will post a guide about that too.
Did anyone say that you are amazing? Because you really are!
O'Reilly Media's Head First PHP & MySQL is a great book for anyone wanting to learn basic PHP. The way the material is structured makes it really easy to comprehend.
I started utilizing co regs... but if you are doing prizes on your dest url or offer wall... how do you end up qualifying the user? and what network is pub friendly for offer walls?
I'm playing with co-reg now, it's more work in the beginning but should be worth it
The path "qualifies" them
Question...
Why do you ask for the email on the first page of the demo, and then also ask for it on the 2nd?
Is there some reason for this? If you checked the 2 emails entered before continuing i could see making sure they didn't enter a bogus one on the first page? Or is it
that most people enter a shit on on the first page, so asking for it again makes them actually enter a good one.
Question... On the Banking with Coreg thread I see this &mobile_number=<? echo $phone; ?> in step 2, but in this thread it only shows &mobile_number=$phone
Which is right or does it not matter which one you use?
Also, why are you iframing the path rather than just redirecting to it? I have seen quite a few WAP paths where they are just redirecting.
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