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Is Prosper202 a waste, or am I doing it wrong?

by tooAlive
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I just got Prosper202 set up on a separate hosting account to start tracking my squeeze page conversions. The tracking seems to be working so far, except for one thing..

The links look ugly. Very ugly.

I'll use LinkTrackr as an example of how I want my links to look like.

Here's my squeeze page: tooalive.com
And here's my linktrackr url:

http://tooalive.linktrackr.com/tooalive7/&subid=###KEYWORD###&subid2=###AFFID###&subid3=### RID###

It doesn't look as pretty, but once clicked on - goes back to tooalive.com in the viewer's browser.

Now, my Prosper202 link: tooAlive.com | Get In The Success Mindset

It's also ugly as sin, but unlike the Linktrackr version, stays ugly, and the visitor can see it in his/her address bar.

Is there any way for me to remedy this? I've tried enabling the link cloaking function in Prosper202 but that doesn't aesthetically do anything worthwhile.

Thanks, I highly anticipate your replies.


#idiot #prosper202 #waste
  • Profile picture of the author chiefman
    I'm not sure I completely understand what you're asking, but I get from it is that you still want the tracking link, but don't want the ugliness of it? Why not put the tracking link in a php redirect - that would tidy it up right away. Instead of having a long ugly tracking link, it would look something like domain.com/offer.php. Apologies if that's not what you're asking.
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    • Profile picture of the author tooAlive
      Originally Posted by chiefman View Post

      I'm not sure I completely understand what you're asking, but I get from it is that you still want the tracking link, but don't want the ugliness of it? Why not put the tracking link in a php redirect - that would tidy it up right away. Instead of having a long ugly tracking link, it would look something like domain.com/offer.php. Apologies if that's not what you're asking.
      Thanks Chiefman,

      I want the url on the address bar to appear as tooalive.com, not the incredibly long tracking code which is generated by Prosper202.

      LinkTrackr cleans it up, but Prosper is leaving it dirty. I don't understand why.

      So is a PHP redirect what I need to Google?

      Thanks again for your help, I'm pretty new to all this campaign tracking. :p
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  • Profile picture of the author chiefman
    And Prosper 202 is a fantastic tracking tool -- especially if you're buying traffic.
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    Prosper202 is a great tool! By far the best free tracking tool out there.
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  • Profile picture of the author chiefman
    Here is the code you'll need:

    <?php

    header( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.html' ) ;

    ?>

    Just change the location URL and put in your tracking URL, and save as file.php. If you want the URL to appear as tooalive.com you'll need to save it as an index.php and upload it to your root. I would recommend against that though as it looks like you have a main index file already. So save it as something like track.php and upload it to your root. Then, when you go to tooalive.com/track.php it'll go through your tracking link.
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    Thanks Chief, I think that just about does it.

    I'll go give it a shot a run back here if I have any hiccups and Google doesn't want to help me.
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