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HELP: Prosper 202, subID's, False Information

by Prateek Dwivedi
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Hello everyone,

Today I got started with my first PPC campaign on Facebook with an offer targeted to the UK audience.

I generated 102 clicks across 4 different ads that I'm split testing. With these 102 clicks I didn't have any conversions.

I wanted to see what it looked like when you imported the subID's from the affiliate network into Tracking 202 since I had never done this before.

So I went ahead and took the subID's and updated them into Tracking 202. Oddly enough when I hit the refresh button to see the data I had generated from today, it said that I had made over $180 from my campaign which is totally false.

I'm quite curious why tracking 202 would say that I generated leads when there is no data to support that what-so-ever.

I went ahead and made a post on the Prosper 202 forum, but those guys never respond to threads, so I thought I'd post here and see what other people with experience with Tracking 202 think.

Anyone?

EDIT: I've also got one other question related to Pixels. I'm promoting an offer that just requires the user to download something, do I need to have my affiliate manage place a pixel on the advertisers success page?
#202 #false #information #prosper #subid
  • Profile picture of the author indexphp
    Maybe your using it wrong??

    Prosper202 creates its own sub-ids. Thats why you format your affiliate link in the way you do. When something converts... you feed those sub-ids back into Prosper to complete the tracking loop. Since it created those sub-ids, it knows which ad, which traffic source, etc...

    If you had 102 clicks... and no conversions... you shouldn't have fed it back any sub-ids. Maybe you fed it the sub-ids that were just clicks. You only feed it sub-ids that converted.
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    • Profile picture of the author Prateek Dwivedi
      Originally Posted by indexphp View Post

      Maybe your using it wrong??

      Prosper202 creates its own sub-ids. Thats why you format your affiliate link in the way you do. When something converts... you feed those sub-ids back into Prosper to complete the tracking loop. Since it created those sub-ids, it knows which ad, which traffic source, etc...

      If you had 102 clicks... and no conversions... you shouldn't have fed it back any sub-ids. Maybe you fed it the sub-ids that were just clicks. You only feed it sub-ids that converted.
      Ya you're right. I just added the subID's to see what it did. But if those subID's didn't convert, what I'm curious about is why it would show $180's worth of conversions when there was none? I would have thought that there would have just been a bunch of zeros instead of it telling me that I head leads across all four of my ad's.
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      • Profile picture of the author indexphp
        Originally Posted by maulsl88 View Post

        Ya you're right. I just added the subID's to see what it did. But if those subID's didn't convert, what I'm curious about is why it would show $180's worth of conversions when there was none? I would have thought that there would have just been a bunch of zeros instead of it telling me that I head leads across all four of my ad's.
        Because you told Prosper they DID convert by updating them. If you had 103 clicks... it created 103 sub-ids. If you went through and pulled out a bunch (that didn't really convert)... and fed them back into Prosper, then you are telling it "Hey Prosper, these sub-ids DID convert"
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        • Profile picture of the author Prateek Dwivedi
          Originally Posted by indexphp View Post

          Because you told Prosper they DID convert by updating them. If you had 103 clicks... it created 103 sub-ids. If you went through and pulled out a bunch (that didn't really convert)... and fed them back into Prosper, then you are telling it "Hey Prosper, these sub-ids DID convert"

          HaHa...Ok ya that makes sense. Thanks Index for clearnin that up. I was kinda worried that mayb I did make sales but they didn't count or something.

          I apologize for what probably seems like a dumb question, but I'm new to CPA/PPC so I'm just tryin to get a grasp on things.

          Thanks again man
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeff M
    Yep, i just did the same thing a few days ago. Just had to clear them out and add the converted ones in and all good now.
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