T/P202 Ad Code + Split Test Question

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Hey,

Can't get a response on the T/P202 forum so I thought maybe someone could help me out here...

I have two landing pages.. site.com/page1 & site.com/page2

I added each landing page into T202

When you visit the root of my site (site.com) the script I wrote alternates a redirect between page1 and page2.

NOW when you're setting up text ads in T202, what do you set as the destination URL + landing page? The destination has to be the root of the site so the script can split test the pages. When getting the Text Ad Code you have to specify which landing page the ad points to. How do you configure that properly if the LP's are getting split?

Hope that makes sense..

thanks
 


mstef said:
Hey,

Can't get a response on the T/P202 forum so I thought maybe someone could help me out here...

I have two landing pages.. site.com/page1 & site.com/page2

I added each landing page into T202

When you visit the root of my site (site.com) the script I wrote alternates a redirect between page1 and page2.

NOW when you're setting up text ads in T202, what do you set as the destination URL + landing page? The destination has to be the root of the site so the script can split test the pages. When getting the Text Ad Code you have to specify which landing page the ad points to. How do you configure that properly if the LP's are getting split?

Hope that makes sense..

thanks
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Why are you re-inventing the wheel? Wes already wrote a rotator script that works with T202 just use the same URL in all ads and that bad puppy rotates..goto prosper202 under scripts under rotating script
 
Angel of Wealth said:
Why are you re-inventing the wheel? Wes already wrote a rotator script that works with T202 just use the same URL in all ads and that bad puppy rotates..goto prosper202 under scripts under rotating script
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Doesn't that only work with offers?



Op:
Just link it how you normally would but change the url to point to your redirect script domain.com/?t202codehere

Have your a/b script that is on domain.com grab ?t202codehere and redirect it to domain.com/page1?t202codehere or domain.com/page2?t202codehere You can use the same text ad for multi landing pages as long as the landing page code is dif on it
 
I guess no one really understood what I was saying...its not the rotating that is the problem...

When going to "Get Ad Text Code" you have to specific ONE LANDING PAGE. If that ad is going to be rotating between landing pages, what are you supposed to specify as the landing page? Wouldnt T202 get messed up if you config the ad to point to LP1 but its really rotating between LPs?
 
the ad code you get from 202 should be INSIDE your rotator script. so obviously you need to get BOTH landing page links from 202. that's how it knows.
 
Maybe you didn't understand me but I told you exactly how to do it.

mstef said:
Wouldnt T202 get messed up if you config the ad to point to LP1 but its really rotating between LPs?
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No, it wouldn't. You can use the same ad text for different landing pages.
 
I see what I missed. Sorry for the confusion..

I didn't see how the generated destination URLs were formatted..works fine

Thanks
 
I need to reopen this - it still doesn't make sense to me...

2 Ads + 2 landing pages provides 4 UNIQUE destination URLs..

Ad1 - LP1 (destination: site.com/lp1?t202id=100)
Ad1 - LP2 (destination: site.com/lp2?t202id=200)
Ad2 - LP1 (destination: site.com/lp1?t202id=300)
Ad2 - LP2 (destination: site.com/lp2?t202id=400)

All Ad destination traffic points to the root of the site where the script is supposed to redirect the traffic to the split landing page. But how are you supposed to handle the URL queries (4 of them)?

Traffic -> Ad1 -> Root -> Script decides to show LP2 but which ?id to use?

It doesn't know that the traffic is coming from Ad1 because both point to the root...

I'm not getting it..
 
My best guess is to include the ID for both LPs for each ad dest. URL..

Ad1 Destination URL: site.com?lp1ID=100&lp2ID=200&kw=acai

routes to either LP1 or LP2 and uses the ID given

same thing for Ad2
 
essentially, you could have a quite complicated setup trying to rotate all variables and get accurate information. you could rotate ads with landing pages, with offers...but i dont think at this time prosper is setup to track all that at once. I would decide what you want to test first, and only rotate 1 thing before moving on. But if you know PHP, you could probably customize the rotator script to carry over the proper t202id to the landing page that is directed by the ad. i know the 202 guys are swamped with support...but you'll eventually get an answer.


mstef said:
I need to reopen this - it still doesn't make sense to me...

2 Ads + 2 landing pages provides 4 UNIQUE destination URLs..

Ad1 - LP1 (destination: site.com/lp1?t202id=100)
Ad1 - LP2 (destination: site.com/lp2?t202id=200)
Ad2 - LP1 (destination: site.com/lp1?t202id=300)
Ad2 - LP2 (destination: site.com/lp2?t202id=400)

All Ad destination traffic points to the root of the site where the script is supposed to redirect the traffic to the split landing page. But how are you supposed to handle the URL queries (4 of them)?

Traffic -> Ad1 -> Root -> Script decides to show LP2 but which ?id to use?

It doesn't know that the traffic is coming from Ad1 because both point to the root...

I'm not getting it..
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I can handle writing it myself I'm just confused that this isn't a common issue...i'm not trying to achieve anything out of the ordinary..

split testing 2 ads + 2 landing pages...

i dont understand how everyone else is doing it with that garbage rotation script on 202
 
sounds like you're spending too much time coding shit and too little time promoting shit
 
Look. Just link all of the ads to the same php file. So for example rotate.php.

Then you generate the links for each landing page and put them in the file.

Then I usually just use the random function.

PHP: 
<?php
//get the keyword. You can add ?kw=whatever to your url
$kw = $_GET[kw];

//generate a random number between 1 and 4
$i = rand(1,4);

if ($i == 1){
    //landing page 1. These links are from t202's tracking link. Generate them with the ad and the bid and put them in the file.
    header("location:http://site.com/lp1?t202id=100&subid=$kw");

}elseif {$i ==2){
  //landing page 2
  header("location:http://site.com/lp1?t202id=100subid=$kw");
}elseif ($ i == 3){
  //landing page 3
  header("location:http://site.com/lp1?t202id=200&subid=$kw");

}elseif ($ i == 4){
  //landing page 4
   header("location:http://site.com/lp1?t202id=400&subid=$kw");

}else {
   //If for some reason no  condition is met go to some page.
  header("location:http://site.com/lp1?t202id=400&subid=$kw");

}
?>
Ok so then on your ad platform just link to http://yoursite.com/gay-lp/rotate.php?$kw=makemoniesonline

Obviously replace makemoniesonline with whatever keyword you want to pass.


If you don't know PHP it's easy to learn. I like w3schools.

Create two different files. One for ad1 and 1 for ad2. The links within each should be the t202 ones setup for the ads.
 
sounds like you're spending too much time coding shit and too little time promoting shit
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These are the sort of things you work out before promoting. I used to use a homegrown tracking system but decided to give T202 a try..

Look. Just link all of the ads to the same php file. So for example rotate.php.

Then you generate the links for each landing page and put them in the file.

Then I usually just use the random function.
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Thanks. I just assumed there was a different setup or something I was missing because it seems like anyone using T202 would be split testing both ads and LPs. I created something very similar to it. I wrote a module for Drupal that handles everything needed for T202 in an easy fashion.

Ad1 Destination: site.com/split?lp1id=<t202-ID-for-LP1+AD1>&lp2id=<same-thing-etc>&kw={keyword}

The script decides which LP to use and forwards the variables accordingly...same setup for Ad2..works fine...

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Alright so forget this thread..i worked it all out..was just surprised and confused off the bat the runaround you have to go through to get it working despite the great T202 GUI...
 
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