New Tracking System

DKPMO said:
I have not had a chance to test the script yet, but have a question. What kind of referrer cloaking is supported?

As far as I know, Prosper202 uses only double-meta refresh which has some significant limitations - hiding less than 100% referrers with often slow and buggy redirects.
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Right now it only uses a simple redirect. The new release I'm working on will have some more redirect/referrer cloaking options (under the landing pages section of marketing plugin) where you can choose a redirect type for a particular landing page/offer.

Also a few people have mentioned install problems, the new release should address those and give better feedback if its unable to install.

Right now I'm putting the finishing touches on the generic traffic source plugin, which will allow you to create ads for any traffic source, not just Facebook.

On the marketing plugin I am changing the clicks/conversions page to show more data, like OS, browser, etc (similar to p202 click spy).

Expect the new changes to be updated this weekend.

If you guys have any other requests for features, email or PM me.
 


automatica said:
Right now it only uses a simple redirect. The new release I'm working on will have some more redirect/referrer cloaking options (under the landing pages section of marketing plugin) where you can choose a redirect type for a particular landing page/offer.

Also a few people have mentioned install problems, the new release should address those and give better feedback if its unable to install.

Right now I'm putting the finishing touches on the generic traffic source plugin, which will allow you to create ads for any traffic source, not just Facebook.

On the marketing plugin I am changing the clicks/conversions page to show more data, like OS, browser, etc (similar to p202 click spy).

Expect the new changes to be updated this weekend.

If you guys have any other requests for features, email or PM me.
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Glad there is still room for feature suggestions, which is why I posted here to begin with!

I definitely think referrer cloaking should be modeled on Referer.US, since redirects dropped via double-meta refresh are a huge waste.

If myself or someone else would like to contribute code / patches, do you expect to have a process for managing that?
 
DKPMO said:
If myself or someone else would like to contribute code / patches, do you expect to have a process for managing that?
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he said he was thinking subversion, which is fine with me since I used it for everything before I got into git.
 
i'm having some trouble installing the plugins. When i select the plugin file it appears to do nothing. the plugin box disappears and nothing else happens.
 
Mistik said:
i'm having some trouble installing the plugins. When i select the plugin file it appears to do nothing. the plugin box disappears and nothing else happens.
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What plugin were you trying to install? The plugins should be installed automatically when you run the install.php script. If the system installed successfully (i.e. it created the vars.php file and database tables) and still did not install the plugins then my best guess is that you don't have PHP5.

If thats the case, install PHP5 and do a fresh reinstall of LambdaTracker.

A few people have been having problems with the install, the next release should address most if not all of these. That's why its a Beta ;)
 
iliketurtles said:
To add to the post above, does anyone know if using SSL cert on the domain strips/erases referrer 100% of the time, flawlessly?
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Wes at the A4D meetup said that when tested it erased the referrer. But I don't remember if he said it was flawless or how many times he tested it.
 
I installed it and had to touch vars.php then chmod 777 vars.php before that, but now I can't login so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
 
Got it installed and working OK.
But, I'm wondering is it possible to do a direct linking type setup,
it seems a landing page is required, is that right?
 
Moon54 said:
Got it installed and working OK.
But, I'm wondering is it possible to do a direct linking type setup,
it seems a landing page is required, is that right?
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It supports direct linking. For Facebook, when you are creating the ads just select the actual offers you want to direct link to and leave the landing pages section blank.
 
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Will test and try to contribute in the near future.
 
iliketurtles said:
To add to the post above, does anyone know if using SSL cert on the domain strips/erases referrer 100% of the time, flawlessly?
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I am pretty sure using an SSL strips the referrer 100% of the time. I think the nature of the technology legit won't let it pass the referrer. Not 100% on this, but I have been told in the past it is impossible to pass a referrer even if you wanted to with an SSL cert.
 
adigitalorange said:
I am pretty sure using an SSL strips the referrer 100% of the time. I think the nature of the technology legit won't let it pass the referrer. Not 100% on this, but I have been told in the past it is impossible to pass a referrer even if you wanted to with an SSL cert.
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All common browsers will strip the http-referer from SSL requests.
HTTP/1.1: Security Considerations

so:
https://site-a > http://site-b = no referer sent

However - Mozilla based browsers (Firefox,Netscape,SeaMonkey..) have the following configurable option: Network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer
Network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
I assume other browsers have similar options

thus:
https://site-a > https://site-b = referer sent
(if Network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer = true)

HTH
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Suggestion: On the plugins page show which version of the plugin is currently installed. will help down the line
 
if anyone get's a 'Abort class-pclzip.php : Missing zlib extensions' error when trying to run install.php, you need to install your PHP with the Zlib extension. Yep. Probably basic to most people.
 
I setup a facebook campaign with this last night and here are my gripes (constructive criticism):

Needs a bulk image uploader, uploading images one by one is a pain.

Needs the ability to split test ages easily, (unless i'm missing something) ...

I don't like the fact that the outbound links go through my tracker and not directly to my lp, that's a big issue for me, ability to link straight to my landing page with a subid is ideal, and not have it jump through my tracking domain which is unnecessary imho.

Will report more as I remember
 
bizzykehl said:
I setup a facebook campaign with this last night and here are my gripes (constructive criticism):

Needs a bulk image uploader, uploading images one by one is a pain.

Needs the ability to split test ages easily, (unless i'm missing something) ...

I don't like the fact that the outbound links go through my tracker and not directly to my lp, that's a big issue for me, ability to link straight to my landing page with a subid is ideal, and not have it jump through my tracking domain which is unnecessary imho.

Will report more as I remember
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As far as bulk upload for creatives, yea it really is a pain to upload 1 by 1. My options are:
1) Create some Java applet (or maybe Flash can do this? I don't know) that allows multiple upload kind of like Facebook's image upload tool.
2) Make the creative uploader automatically recognize zip files and extract any images from it.

Personally #2 seems preferable but I'm open to suggestions. Also I think being able to upload directly from the 'Create Ads' section would be nice too, instead of having to go to the creatives section to do that.

For split testing ages you select the age range, and the increment to split test.

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so that splits it into 20-25,25-30,30-35 and so on. I can't really think of a better way to do it, what exactly are you trying to do in this case?

For linking to your LP without redirecting through the tracker you can use either 'Javascript' type tracking or none at all. Here's a screenshot:

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When you select 'none' you can enter the URL for that ad, and it wont go through the tracking system at all. The <%ad_id%> variable will be replaced with the ad's LambdaTracker id, but not a unique id for the visitor.

If you use the javascript method, when it submits the ad it will do all the things a normal redirect would do (just make sure you included the javascript tracking script on the landing page, the link is under the 'tracking' section). The actual URL would look something like www.yourlpdomain/yourlp.html#1234 where 1234 is the Ad Id. Once the page is loaded the javascript will strip that 1234 so all the visitor sees is the hash at the end of the url. This then sets all the variables on your tracking domain's PHP session, including the unique visitor ID for subid tracking.

So really javascript is your best bet, 'none' is for people who just want to use the mass upload feature without tracking through LambdaTracker at all.
 
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