Tracking202 Help (12)
Hey guys,
I'm not the tracking baller I'd like you all to believe so I have a couple questions I hope you can help me out with.
I've just started using landers, and I'm a bit confused. You get your links that track from your ad to your lander, but how does it track which ads actually got the conversion?
I want to know because I think I may be setting things up wrong. Basically I've got my Tracking202 links for my ads and those lead to the lander but then in the lander for the offer link I'm using my standard affiliate link.
Is this wrong, or is the conversion tracked via the code you put in the lander or by some other means?
Yes, I've got conversion tracking setup via image pixel or whatever so is that how it's done?
And that leads me to my next question which is...
Which is better? Image pixel, or post back URL?
Thanks guys!
Regardless of which tracker you use, you need to put a small javascript or php code in the LP to track the clicks, CTR. to track conversion, a feedback mechanism to be setup, it is from the cpa network to the tracker you've used. That mean, let say currently you earn a lead, your cpa network will fire the image pixel or postback url to your tracker, hence inside your tracker, show you're earning a lead, whether you use image pixel or postback url, both links needed to be https, that mean you need to install a SSL cert for your tracking domain.
you should use prosper202, self hosted is much better
@hd2010
Right, I understand most of that, but here's what I'm wondering.
How are you supposed to know which ad got the conversion? Does the pixel/postback show which ad in let's say Facebook actually led to the conversion in the first place? That data is the most important to me and I'm not seeing the link as to how the pixel/postback knows which ad converted.
Oh and btw from what I can tell in Adsimilis they don't always require https but it might depend on the offer, at least they don't say it does. Other networks usually make it clear if SSL is required so do you know anything about Adsimilis actually requiring SSL but not showing it on the offer page?
Cheers.
I guess in order to track which ad convert, you need to pass a your own custom var ad_id. for example for ad 1, you would put ad_id = 1, then pass via the custom token. It is better to use https. no need to mingle with different type of url.
I'm still a little confused.
Could someone else weigh in as well?
Image pixel should be fine.
The tracking is done with cookies:
1. User gets to your landing page via one of your 202 links
2. Javascript code on landing page recognizes the 202 link & other variables and creates a cookie with the appropriate details on the users computer
3. User goes to the offer, converts... the "thank you" page of the offer is set to load your pixel (which is actually a php script) that will read the cookie you originally set on the users computer and connect all of the dots / mark it as a lead generated
Seems confusing, but it's all there. The pixel will know what "click" to attribute the lead to since all of the cookies are unique.
@tical, bosstactical asking how to track the FB ads id, i guess it was being tracked by passing another token to the tracker, then cross match with subid fired from cpa network
ok. this is how you do it:
step 1: Got to setup --> campaigns
add a new campaign with your affiliate url
step 2: go to 'landing pages'
enter the LP nickname and the URL where you want to host the LP
step 3: go to 'text ads'
add as many ads you want to test and enter a unique ad nickname to each.
step 4: go to 'get LP code'
select the campaign and click on 'generate tracking link'
paste the 'inbound javascript LP code' right before </body> on your LP
create a php file on your server with 'outbound php redirect code'
example: http://mywebsite.com/maturedating/go.php
this link is your affiliate link now and use it wherever you want to on your LP.
step 5: got to 'get links'
select the campaign and ad. click on 'generate tracking link'
use this link as the destination url in your facebook ads. for each ad you will get a separate tracking link.
step 6: go to 'get postback/pixel'
copy the tracking pixel and paste it in your adsimilis offer page. they mention it if they require https or not.
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That is it. now someone will click on your ad's tracking link and reach your LP. then he will click on go.php you created in step 4 and reach the offer page, then sign up. all of it will get tracked 
go to 'analyze', then 'text ads LP CTR' and you will be able to see which ad is doing well and how many conversions each ad got. you can also see it on the realtime spy view.
i hope this answers your question. another way is to use keywords for each ad but this way is easier
you should try to make it work without post back pixel first.
if you want to track which ads is doing what, you need to pass this info along using an http parameter.
lets say you use Prosper202 "c2" (one of the built in parameter), so your url would be http://zzz.com?c2=my_ad1
if setup correctly, P202 will append a UNIQUE id to your offer links, in this case (Adsimilis, &aff_sub=111222333) so when you'll see a conversion on your network, grab this aff_sub ID from the report and update P202. then you'll know which original click, with all parameter you passed along, did convert.
postback url, image pixel etc... is just a way of automating this process.
PS: I often dont use pixels or postbacks at all, quit happy to do it manually, that is the good time. updating tracker with the good stuff.... when its going to be too much work to do it manually, I'll be freakin rich !~@!......
Just in case you haven't seen it: 202 Tutorial Videos http://tracking202.com/videos/
A few more on my youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/t202nana
Hey does anyone know if you can add more tracking to the postback url?
I'm going to split test some offer creatives and if I can put in the creative id token from my network into the postback url I'd effectively be tracking the offer split test which I've heard everyone say can't be done in 202.
Does anyone know if this is possible? If so, how do you add the extra tokens to the postback url?
Thanks!
It's best to use the c1-4 variables for this.
When the postback is fired, you will get information on what converted inside Prosper202.
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