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Are You Tracking with AdWords & Prosper? (10)

12-08-2011 06:40 PM #1 peteperclick (Member)
Are You Tracking with AdWords & Prosper?

Hey guys,

Just in need of a little tracking help and thought this might be the best place since searching Google for hours has yet to yield any results.

So I'm tracking multiple offers on a review site. Only traffic source right now is AdWords. I was using prosper but ditched it because AdWords seems to be pretty accurate so far.

Now I'm adding other traffic sources (AdCenter, small media buys) and want to know if theres a way to track them with AdWords and/or Google Analytics, or should I just go back to using Prosper for all other third party traffic?

I'm such a tracking n00b, any help in the right direction would be much appreciated, thanks guys!

12-11-2011 12:23 AM #2 peteperclick (Member)

Is anyone using Prosper202 and/or AdWords to drive traffic?

12-11-2011 12:29 AM #3 polarbacon (Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by peteperclick View Post
Is anyone using Prosper202 and/or AdWords to drive traffic?
google adwords great tracking....

but you cant use it for other stuff....

just use 202 for it all and you should be all set....

12-12-2011 03:57 PM #4 peteperclick (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by polarbacon View Post
google adwords great tracking....

but you cant use it for other stuff....

just use 202 for it all and you should be all set....

Thank you, I appreciate the input, that's what I'll do then, P202 all the way.

12-14-2011 06:47 PM #5 bbrock32 (Administrator)

I can confirm that P202 works great with Adwords ( P202 was built with PPC in mind! ).

Also , you can see day-parting data in P202 that Adwords doesn't show.

09-21-2012 03:47 AM #6 interweebz (Member)

I am using Prosper and Adwords.
However, the CPC's are estimates and are not accurate.

Does anyone know of a solution to get accurate CPCs uploaded from Adwords (and Bing) spend reports?

10-26-2013 03:19 PM #7 murkmurk (Member)

@interweebz im looking for the same answer let me know if you found it.

10-26-2013 04:34 PM #8 Smaxor (Veteran Member)

Not sure if good supports this. But from a network perspective Google is not liking tracking links a whole lot. I've seen this happen with 202 as well.

I'm not sure if prosper is supporting click pixels yet rather then redirects but we're finding this very helpful for account longevity, for Facebook as well.

This places a pixel on the page or offers to track the clicks that's dynamically populated with url field value pairs.

So old way is:

google->tracking link->network link->offer

Now we're doing

http://www.offer.com/page?a=123213&s1=&s2=&s3=&s4=&s5=
Google->offer [pixel placed on the page and fired to track the click]

Something to consider if you want to keep your stuff separate in the eyes of google and don't want to be looked upon as an affiliate.

You could just throw a click pixel for prosper 202 on your lander vs. going through a redirect link. Again not sure if it supports it, if not maybe we'll write it for a plug-in. [we don't use 202 internally]

10-26-2013 05:39 PM #9 murkmurk (Member)

@Smaxor thanks for your reply. While I'm looking to narrow target better propser202 cost accuracy with adwords instead of switching to cpvlab (which per my understanding allows cost uploads). Currently I am promoting a A4D offer in Google adwords so trying your suggestion will work for me, but unfortunately wont help me track actual cost per click to conversion. Thank you for the heads up on Google and tracking links.

10-27-2013 08:17 PM #10 Mr Baffoe (Veteran Member)

Quote Originally Posted by Smaxor View Post
Not sure if good supports this. But from a network perspective Google is not liking tracking links a whole lot. I've seen this happen with 202 as well.

I'm not sure if prosper is supporting click pixels yet rather then redirects but we're finding this very helpful for account longevity, for Facebook as well.

This places a pixel on the page or offers to track the clicks that's dynamically populated with url field value pairs.

So old way is:

google->tracking link->network link->offer

Now we're doing

http://www.offer.com/page?a=123213&s1=&s2=&s3=&s4=&s5=
Google->offer [pixel placed on the page and fired to track the click]

Something to consider if you want to keep your stuff separate in the eyes of google and don't want to be looked upon as an affiliate.

You could just throw a click pixel for prosper 202 on your lander vs. going through a redirect link. Again not sure if it supports it, if not maybe we'll write it for a plug-in. [we don't use 202 internally]
I've recently heard of people using click pixels to do what you are talking about.

Prosper202 1.8, which we are working right now, has the ability to inject and load 3rd party pixels/scripts via the landing page js.

I'll make sure to add the ability to auto append the subid to the click pixel url so that it tracks properly in p202

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