Comments on: Split Testing and Rotating Offers in Tracking202

By: ctrtard

ctrtard — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:40:31 +0000

The 2 scripts work fine together. You probably just made a mistake. Best I can suggest is to get the lp rotation script working first. Then add offer rotation.

By: Jessie

Jessie — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:29:20 +0000

Hi ctrtard,

Your script for offer rotation works perfectly – big thanks!

One thing I`m stuck on is – I also set up LP rotation by using your script, so I get 2 LPs rotated, and 2 offers rotated on each of them. Fordestination URL, I use the suggested http://mydomain.com/xbox/, and it opens and rotates the LPs and the offers perfectly.

The problem that I see is that on P202 reports, I am only able to see which offer is converting better, but seems that there is no way to see which LP converts better.

I have also set up LP rotation ONLY for other campaigns, and it does work fine – I can see in the reports which LP has a higher CTR.

But not when I combine the LP and offer rotation… I am not very technical, but I guess this has something to do with setting the page as “simple” for LP rotation, and as “advanced” for offer rotation.

Do you have any ideas on what I am doing wrong? Or how I could solve this?

Thanks again!

By: ctrtard

ctrtard — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:55:21 +0000

Yup, you got it. When PHP is executing the header function, it is actually modifying the http headers. It’s these headers that tell your browser where to go. So if you have empty space before that function (like outside of the php tags) you will get that error.

I’m glad you like the blog. Thanks for reading!

By: Izzy

Izzy — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:29:19 +0000

Don’t worry. I figured it out. There was a space in one of my codes. Apparently, if there is a space before of after the PHP call, its common to get this erro.

Great bolg BTW. Love the hacks!
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By: Izzy

Izzy — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:11:30 +0000

Great post! Long time reader. What does it mean when your redirect page displays this message:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/fom/public_html/go/EMO-offer.php:16) in /home/fom/public_html/go/EMO-offer.php on line 33

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Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:24:58 +0000

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By: illya Kuryakin

illya Kuryakin — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:54:55 +0000

Thanks!

By: ctrtard

ctrtard — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:32:35 +0000

Hi Illya,

You can use the php date() function to do what you want. Keep in mind, this function will return “server time” which might be different then your local time, and different from the traffic source’s time. If you want to make things simpler, you can change your server’s time. Google “linux change timezone” or bug your hosting support to do it for you.

Thanks for reading!

By: illya Kuryakin

illya Kuryakin — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 03:51:17 +0000

Hey Mark, Thanks for this. Straight to the point. I have a unique (I think) need to switch offers at certain times of the day. Any pointers on what code to add to check the time before reading what offer to hit?

Thanks
Illya

By: Monty

Monty — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:18:33 +0000

Another issue, when clicking on a link in my LP I’m getting this:

Fatal error: [] operator not supported for strings in /home/xxx/public_html/domain/dir/offerrotator.php on line 22

Strange, but it only showed up in firefox, and not chrome or IE. It redirects ok in those…