Internet Marketing with a Helmet.

I love Prosper 202, but the GUI needs help. I mean copying and pasting [[subid]]? Really?!? We may as well all just bust out Mosaic and get it over with. Embrace the 21st Century Mod Features Larger Campaign Name field. (More room to edit!) Larger Affiliate URL field. (The better to see those big-ass tracking links.) Some Sweet Subid Injection Buttons. No more copy/paste means less room for error and ...

The Issue: A new campaign I am about to run requires me to pass a zip code as a get variable in the url. For example: http://offerpage.com?id=666&zip=12345 This is also known as a pre-pop, as in "pre-populating" an offer. The Problem: So my landing page is all set up.  I have a form on there that let's the user enter his zip code and I have my Prosper202 javascript tracking code in place.   Everything's great until I have to ...

I wrote this script after I built my first Wordpress datafeed site.   After I loaded up the site, I realized that I had 5,000+ posts all made on the same day!   Rather than repost everything, I wrote this quick script.  Hopefully someone may find it useful. What it Does This script will connect to your Wordpress database and change the post dates on all of your posts to random dates.  You can define the range of dates by setting the two ...

Sometimes, little things bug me. I've been running a bunch of PPV traffic lately and for awhile now, I've noticed that Prosper202 doesn't have icons for DirectCPV or LeadImpact. This is most noticeable in the Overview and the Spy view where traffic from both of these networks gets stamped with the question mark icon. When you just see a question mark, you need to hover over it with your mouse to figure out what traffic source it is. And ...

Since I made the “PPV Landing Page Rotation” post a few days ago, quite a few people had asked me how to go about doing offer rotation as well. As usual, there’s more than one way to skin a cat. I’m going to show you the “right” way to do this.  By doing it right, we are going to preserve all of Tracking202’s trackyness.  However, doing shit right always takes more time.  So I would be remiss to not point out a slick way to ...

Split testing kicks ass. Rotating landing pages to find which one converts best is the ticket to making you more money. Don’t be lazy, it’s not that hard! If you’re experienced, I’ll cut to the chase. Here is my ppv landing page rotation script download link.  This script supports all major CPV networks, and allows even rotation via counter file or psuedo-rotation via random number. Read the comments in the file, you’ll figure ...

In the world of affiliate marketing, the word "cloak" gets thrown around a lot and means different things to different people.  So let's be clear: Link Cloaking Definition: Using on page techniques to obfuscate the destination URL of a link when the user hovers over it. Purpose: To hide ugly, complex, or affiliate code laden URLs from the user.  The idea is this: when the user hovers over a link, he will see the destination URL in the ...

Fake review sites have been popular for quite a long time now. The whole idea is to build trust on your landing page by showing how other people have rated a product. Even with the recent news about the FTC cracking down on flogs and fake review sites, people are still doing this stuff.  Case in point, Nicky Cake's Build Solid Automated Product Sites With Wordpress post of a couple weeks ago.   I guess people just figure this will be ...

Anyone following affiliate marketing knows that the days of using a quick & dirty landing page with the big PPC engines is long gone. For better or worse, Google's stupid "Quality Score" fired the first shot and other PPC engines followed. QS has forced affiliates to throw up "mini sites" to boost quality score and get cheaper clicks. It is also no secret that Google loves Wordpress. Black hatters, SEO's and Affiliate Marketers have ...