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Introduction to Coreg - Step by Step Guide (60)

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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 :

As you can see it's a basic html form. When the user fills it and clicks submit he is sent to the second step.

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 :

That's the bare minimum you need to have a working path


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

[File is temporarily unavailable - we're working to get it back online!]


That's all folks , if you have any questions feel free to ask here.

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I wanted to be the first to 'thank' this post

Great write up!

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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

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Awesome, thanks for the detailed write-up! Going to get down and dirty with this soon.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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The exit url will open in the full window. As for you questions :

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.

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Yes , emails.txt file should be writable to collect emails.

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.

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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

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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.

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Sick thread!

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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

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1 - I could be mistaken, but in the original coreg example wasn't the CTR between 3-5% from the LP -> LP2? I myself am experiencing about 2% CTR. Luckily my RPU is fairly high so my campaign still has a healthy ROI. If i could get 15% CTR that would be amazing...

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This is simply EPIC!

Another killer post for sure

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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

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Change the line that start with $email to :

[PHP]
$email=$_GET["leadEmail"];
[/PHP]

That will auto fill the email field in step2 and also save the email in the emails.txt file.

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This is awesome. Thanks. Also thanks to Fraser who chimed in with some great tips on how to run these.

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Will you make a guide about monetizing the list?

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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).

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me too! Can anyone share this? Or share how to set it up more traditionally.. ie, 1st page email submit, 2nd page full registration, then pass off data to the path. As opposed to full registration on first page.

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.

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if anyone wants to set this up for me, I'll pay you.

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What do you need help with?
Bbrock laid it all out for us.

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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.

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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.

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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!!

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Yes , I am actually playing with a couple solutions.

It will take some time to test everything thoroughly but will post a guide about that too.

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Did anyone say that you are amazing? Because you really are!

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i see you guys talk about silver path when it comes to coreg.
is it a must to use them or are we able to use other networks for coreg? if silver path is preferred for coreg, can you tell us why?

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I think Silver Path is more preferable by most of the people here i believe because they offer faster payment terms.

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It's not a must. A couple of the guys posting here have worked with them and like them, so it's just a recommendation based on their experience.

I have been running with GameTheory with good success. I haven't split enough to SP to really make any assumptions.

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Also a good point. Much lower thresholds for the shorter payment terms. I for one am using the incredibly high weekly threshold at GT as a form of motivation

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same here hopefully they will lower soon, what RPU are you getting?

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Usually $1-$2 depending on the day of the week.

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Besmir, this is how my iframed page looks like:



Is this also what you guys are seeing? Because, I can't see why anyone would continue after that page..

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Yup. I had the same green page and RPU was really low, but the sytem auto-optimized and now RPU much higher.

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I don't understand what this go.php file is from the other posts on redirecting to prosper202... I am still having trouble getting keyword LP CTR to work in prosper.

I'm doing exactly as the walmart sample - index.php(main page) -> Step1.php(form) -> Step2.php (iframe)

In prosper202 the landing page is pointing to index.php and the offer page is pointing Step1.php. Still doesn't track CTR - not sure why - Been 3 days can't figure this out...

I think I don't understand what prosper202 needs to know in order to identify as a CTR. What's the trigger for prosper to record a keyword LP CTR...

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Nevermind I am an idiot Got it WORK'IN!!!!!!

I totally missed the prosper redirect script part for whatever reason...

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To make this work in p202, do you need to set your affiliate URL as : http://domain.com/Step1.php?subid=[[subid]] or just http://domain.com/Step1.php

Been a while since I last used p202 and I remembered it always automatically append [[subid]] at the end of the url, which means that I only have to key http://domain.com/Step1.php?sub=

What should I put in my Affiliate URL for my Step1.php?

Index.php (email) ==> go.php (redirect) ==> Step1.php (Data Collection) ==> Step2.php (i-Frame) : is that right?

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One thing to keep in mind is the data is just probably getting sold off at coreg prices. Which is typically .10-1$ a lead. If you have a campaign you think could do 30-50k submits a day you really may considering building your own path. It's pretty easy to find lead buyers. You don't really have to own your own offers, but rather partner with people that want coreg data and just post that data to them.

Just because SP can only get a 1-1.50 RPU that doesn't mean that's all their is to be made. You can tailor the offers much more to your audience with a custom solution that will back out the RPU's much much better. In which case you could kill someone else when it comes to bids

P.S. Silverpath is good people they're great to learn with.

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I'm having trouble at the step2.php page. It doesn't seem to be passing the cell number to the iframed page from silverpath.

I checked the iframe url and the mobile number is in it.

Anyone have any ideas?

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^^^this....walk thru a few offers see the host and post.....its none to difficult to do, tech wise.....make a form post data.....get paid....(hopefully :P)

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I'm having an issue implementing the prosper202 tracking on the example coreg campaign. I'm pretty sure my poor understanding of php is to blame.

I can't get the email address from my LP to pre-pop on step1 when I use the 202 redirect (it works fine without).

I've tried a bunch of things, but here's my basic setup:

Affiliate URL in 202: http://www.mysite.com/step1.php
Landing page URL in 202: http://www.mysite.com/index.php
Then I added inbound JS LP code to: http://www.mysite.com/index.php
Created go.php with the 202 redirect code
Changed form action=step1.php on LP to form action=go.php

Do I need to add anything to go.php to pass the "leadEmail" from the LP to step1.php? I tried including the php that Besmir posted to the guy looking to pass the data through the redirect onto the iframe page, doing something similar to go.php and step1.php, but that didn't work.

Thanks for your help.

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Anyone brave enough to put a vid together on how to track this?

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i have one in the works with a template for all of you to use

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Nice one Polar, im confusing the shiz outta myself

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thanks polar! im stuck at p202 too, just cant get it to track.

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We realized that the weekly payment threshold was a PITA so we recently lifted it. This goes for Silverpath and Mundo Media. Before, weekly wires were only released if wires were > $2500. Now, all wires will be released regardless of amount. Of course, keep in mind if levels are consistently low for weeks, management will want the account to be off weeklies.

To get on to weeklies, it's def negotiable with your AM. If you can show growth in your account, talk to your AM and set goals ie. if you reach $500/day for a few days consistently, to increase volume you would need faster payment terms. We're always trying to help our affs grow and make the best mutually beneficial relationships!

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How can I set this up to test Fluent?
This is their path:

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I've been looking at different co-reg offers and their requirements, why do some networks or offers require the user to enter the D.O.B (date of birth) and postal address in addition to their Title, First name, Last name, Email address, and cell phone number?

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Its not required. Its up to you if you want to collect and send them that info. I usually only collect first,last, email and phone number.

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From my experience collecting only phone and email works best.

These are the only fields that are used on the offers on the path.

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Hi bbrock, this is how i set up for fluent: "http://www.rewardsflow.com/?Flow=$gtkey&isPrePop=true&email=$email&firstname= $fname&lastname=$lname&phonecode=$p1&phoneprefix=p 2&phonesuffix=p3&subID=xxx&returnurl=$exit"

I changed my gtkey with my Fluent key. Is this correct?

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since im newb please tell me if im thinkign right:
1. someobdy puts email then email gets put on offer + passed to 2nd page [so i alreayd make $ in this step]
2. all data here is passed to me with click of a button, and passed to 3rd page [no money made yet]
3. anythign he fills up here goes for offer [i make $]

so: does all the sites have to use 3 steps? or the 4th step is infinite [he can go forever with path?]
is it true i make $ on point 1 and 3 or maybe its actually just point 3 ?

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This is how the a typical coreg path works...

1) Your landing page ->collect user information/click through to page 2... meaning you could either say something like "You're today's winner, enter your email to confirm your prize!" and they would enter their email (NO MONEY MADE) and go to the next page... or you could just have the click on a Call To Action button that says "Continue" or something... NO MONEY MADE HERE (this is not an submit offer, but rather for you to collect details or get a click through to the path)

2) They get to the next step saying "in order to receive your prize please confirm your details" this is where you collect more information and send them to the coreg path NO MONEY MADE

3) Iframed coreg path MONEY MADE

4) Exit URL... money may or may not be made here, depending on what your exit url is... could be a email submit, could be another affiliate offer... shit it could be another coreg path... or it could be some bs prize you promised them.


You can use as many steps as you want... you could collect all their information on one page (all that's needed really is their cell phone number, but to "make it more believable" you can put in more fields...test to see which works better for you) or you could spread out the pages on collecting info. You can also determine how many offers they fill out on the coreg path with the &limit=###, that ### determines how many offers they see on the path... test this to see which number works better for you as well.

That clear anything up? If not lemme know and I'd be happy to talk with you via skype about it

-Adam

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Hi Molo
1. You set up your LP (step 1) and capture the lead's email (for later monetization). The php uses the GET method to pre-pop it into the next page (step 2). You haven't made any $ at this stage.
2. Person enters more details (step 2) so that these can be stored and passed into the coreg path. (still no $ yet)
3. Step 3 is where you iframe the path. You can control the number of offers in the path using a variable in the coreg URL. The default I think is 6 offers (maybe). This is when you make $. The user has the option of skipping any offer on the path. You are paid a rev share (70/30 or 80/20 for example).

You can monetize even further by specifying an exit URL (CPA email submit or offer wall for example) where the lead is redirected when they are finished on the path.

I'm not a coreg expert so if anybody wants to chime in feel free

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Dubbsy beat me to it. Well done dude

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ok got it guys, thanx!

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