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10-09-2015 04:39 PM #1 v1r4l4adv (Member)
how do you setup quickly different banners-landers

I have a question about creating mass campaigns, when i am uploading banners on my traffic network i am using creaid to allocate each banner to specific landers and then setting up the rules for creaid in Thrive for the tracking, this takes a lot of time if every banner has a different creaid (for example go2mobi will allocate id 30214 for banner1 30215 for banner2 and 30215 for banner 3, i would have to setup rules to use lander1 if creaid is 30214|30215|30216 and repeat the process for every lander)
If i am testing 3-4 traffic sources this takes forver bcause for example if i have 8banners entering in prealnder1 and i want to test 4 prelanders that makes 32creaid per trafficsource. Is there a way to speed up the process? do you set one campaign on the traffic source for every set of banners+lander to avoid messing up with creaid? and if you do, aren't the campaigns being outbidding eachother?
Thank you very much for the patience.

10-09-2015 05:04 PM #2 ThrvTrkr (Member)

Ok, so you want to redirect visitors to different landing pages depending on what banner they clicked on, right?

Additionally, the traffic source doesn't have a token for creative ID/banner ID right? So you have to hard code it into "creaid=" in the campaign URL, right?

Assuming I have everything correct, then you can save a little bit of time with the tip below.

Let's say this is your campaign URL:

Code:

http://domain.com/path/lp.php?trvid=10003&trvx=1a4geb46&creaid=

Normally, you would enter the URL for Banner 12345a as this:

Code:

http://domain.com/path/lp.php?trvid=10003&trvx=1a4geb46&creaid=12345a

Just having this, Thrive will track performance for Banner 12345a.

Now, you should think about how to structure the redirection part separately, since telling a visitor where to go and telling Thrive what to track are separate things.

Let's say you have Lander1 and these banners should all go to Lander1:

Banner 12345a
Banner 12345b
Banner 12345c
Banner 12345d

Then, you only need to add an additional variable to the campaign URL that tells Thrive to send them to Lander1. For example, your URLs for each of these banners may be:

Code:

http://domain.com/path/lp.php?trvid=10003&trvx=1a4geb46&creaid=12345a&lp=lander1
http://domain.com/path/lp.php?trvid=10003&trvx=1a4geb46&creaid=12345b&lp=lander1
http://domain.com/path/lp.php?trvid=10003&trvx=1a4geb46&creaid=12345c&lp=lander1
http://domain.com/path/lp.php?trvid=10003&trvx=1a4geb46&creaid=12345d&lp=lander1

Notice they all have the same "lp=lander1" variable.

Then, in Thrive, create a "URL Parameter" redirection rule for "lp=lander1".

This should save you a lot of trouble of having to put all these banner IDs into the rule. Instead, now you can just put in "lp=lander1" or "lp=lander2" etc. as a rule.

Does that make sense?

10-09-2015 05:32 PM #3 v1r4l4adv (Member)

for example in go2mobi if i create a campaign, i can only enter 1 url with creaid that they will assign, i cannot specify a different url for every banner without creating separate campaings for every banner, i am sure there is something i am missing but i found nowhere the option to setup different urls for every banner. i.e. if i create campaign 1 i can enter my url: http://domain.com/path/lp.php?trvid=10003&trvx=1a4geb46 specify [creid] and he will set up a different url authomatically for every bbanner with creid in it, i cannot edit that in any way

10-10-2015 12:26 AM #4 ThrvTrkr (Member)

If they generate the creative ID automatically, then you would just use 1 URL

From our example, it would be:

Code:

http://domain.com/path/lp.php?trvid=10003&trvx=1a4geb46&creaid=12345a&lp=lander1

But, it sounds like you would need to create multiple go2mobi campaigns, each for a different lander you want to use.

This sounds like a shortcoming of this specific traffic source.

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