Facebook Redirecting/Tracking Questions

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I've searched and cannot find a clear answer to this

From my experience, every time I have submitted a URL other than the base domain, the reps have gone there instead: Submitted site.com/review.php and they only go to site.com

Based on that, I also haven't had success submitting the ad w/ destination of a p202 code - What I'm trying to figure out how to do effectively is test different ads.

Do I need to run different redirects for each ad copy I want to track, or am I doing something ridiculously stupid?

That's the best I can explain it, sorry if it's unclear but just wondering if I'm making this too difficult.
 


makethatmoney said:
I've searched and cannot find a clear answer to this

From my experience, every time I have submitted a URL other than the base domain, the reps have gone there instead: Submitted site.com/review.php and they only go to site.com

Based on that, I also haven't had success submitting the ad w/ destination of a p202 code - What I'm trying to figure out how to do effectively is test different ads.

Do I need to run different redirects for each ad copy I want to track, or am I doing something ridiculously stupid?

That's the best I can explain it, sorry if it's unclear but just wondering if I'm making this too difficult.
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yea kinda confused about your original post....but you should be able to put any URL in as your destination URL. whether it has p202 code or not doesn't matter, they will look at the exact URL you enter.
 
Ok so I need to "swap" the LP out of the p202 code afterwards then (if I'm redirecting)

If I submit different ads at different times I'll have to build multiple pages if I do enter p202 code in as it will redirect to the same LP

Does that make sense?
 
makethatmoney said:
Ok so I need to "swap" the LP out of the p202 code afterwards then (if I'm redirecting)

If I submit different ads at different times I'll have to build multiple pages if I do enter p202 code in as it will redirect to the same LP

Does that make sense?
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no, not at all....lol


please restate what you want to ask so i can actually understand it:)
 
makethatmoney said:
Ok so I need to "swap" the LP out of the p202 code afterwards then (if I'm redirecting)

If I submit different ads at different times I'll have to build multiple pages if I do enter p202 code in as it will redirect to the same LP

Does that make sense?
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Yes, you will have to switch the LP code out after your ad gets approved for your p202 code.

If you want to track different ads while only using one p202 link use this code:

<?php

Header( "Location: http://yoursite.com/tracking202/redirect/dl.php?t202id=xxxx&t202kw=".$ad );

?>
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Say you save as yoursite.com/offer.php

Then on facebook put this as your url:

yoursite.com/offer.php?ad=putyourkeywordhere

Hope that helps!
 
MCRunning said:
Yes, you will have to switch the LP code out after your ad gets approved for your p202 code.

If you want to track different ads while only using one p202 link use this code:

Say you save as yoursite.com/offer.php

Then on facebook put this as your url:

yoursite.com/offer.php?ad=putyourkeywordhere

Hope that helps!
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Alright so the destination URL will be different for each ad. So if I have an ad targeting males and one targeting femailes this would suffice:

yoursite.com/offer.php?ad=male
 yoursite.com/offer.php?ad=female

Those are the destination URLs for each ad and it should track that properly for me?

Awesome, thank you! :)
 
makethatmoney said:
Alright so the destination URL will be different for each ad. So if I have an ad targeting males and one targeting femailes this would suffice:

yoursite.com/offer.php?ad=male
 yoursite.com/offer.php?ad=female

Those are the destination URLs for each ad and it should track that properly for me?

Awesome, thank you! :)
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No, the destination url will be the same. Under "keywords" in p202 it will show:
Male
Female

But yes, those destination urls for each ad should track properly for you
 
makethatmoney said:
So people who have 20+ dating ads going have 20 different URLs to test performance of each?
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What are you talking about? I gave you a method to track as many ads as you like while only using ONE, yes ONE url. Who gives a shit about how others are tracking theirs?

How the hell are we supposed to know if person A is promoting 20+ dating ads going to 20 different urls? Everyone has their own preference on how they like to track their campaigns.
 
Pretty sure thats why we have subids. I do use a different url for every ad and typically have around 10-20 active subids (Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo, MSN, Adwords, Other traffic sources) and each of those even goes down further probably with different ads as well.
 
diff urls= yes

MCRunning said:
What are you talking about? I gave you a method to track as many ads as you like while only using ONE, yes ONE url. Who gives a shit about how others are tracking theirs?

How the hell are we supposed to know if person A is promoting 20+ dating ads going to 20 different urls? Everyone has their own preference on how they like to track their campaigns.
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If you count diff sub ids as diff urls, then yes. One campaign can have THOUSANDS of different "urls"...
 
MCRunning said:
What are you talking about? I gave you a method to track as many ads as you like while only using ONE, yes ONE url. Who gives a shit about how others are tracking theirs?

How the hell are we supposed to know if person A is promoting 20+ dating ads going to 20 different urls? Everyone has their own preference on how they like to track their campaigns.
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Ok sweet - I was just confused, thanks for the help :)

Thx all
 
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