The question of how to best use Tracking202 with SpeedPPC has come up time and time again in the 202 forum, so I figured it was time to finally sit down  and create a detailed tutorial. So grab some coffee or your drink of choice, close all your other browser tabs, and pay close attention. This is going to make you some money if you follow along!

A couple of things to keep in mind before I begin:

-   The following tutorial assumes a working knowledge of Speed PPC, Tracking202, and the Adwords Editor. In the interest of time, I will not be detailing the setup or general usage of any of these tools. If you are not yet familiar with these tools, this tutorial will probably be a bit over your head. I highly suggest you first study the user documentation of each tool if any of this material confuses you.

-   Since Tracking202 and Prosper202 are essentially the same tool, this information will apply to both tools. For users of Tracking202 Pro, the process is even easier, but that will probably be another post.

-   Some assumptions are made about your affiliate marketing knowledge, including how to research and choose an offer to promote, keyword research, and writing ad copy. I will not be covering these topics in detail.

-   We will be working with Google Adwords using the Adwords Editor. The process for working with MSN AdCenter and Yahoo are similar enough to not be covered at this time.

-   I suggest you set aside enough time to read this tutorial in its entirety as it may get a bit lengthy. I intended to provide as much detail as possible.

Ok….now that our assumptions are out of the way, let’s get started! Read the rest of this entry

Update: The quality of the embedded video is terrible and I apologize. Here is the direct link to the YouTube video, which should be a little clearer: Prosper202 Tutorial – Adding Custom Traffic Sources

My first post of December has been longer than expected in the making. What was supposed to be a quick post at the beginning of the month, quickly dragged to a few days due to unforeseen server issues with my ISP, as well has having connectivity issues with Comcast.

My Internet came screeching to a halt on Friday and so I decided that while I waited for Comcast to fix the modem issues, I’d do a complete overhaul on my home LAN, getting it up to par with 21st Century technology.

Long story short…I’m back up and can finally get back to posting. So here ya are: A complete icon pack for Prosper202, drag and drop import and you’re done!

Download the included zip from the Winzip icon above and watch the video below if you wanna see me walk you through it how to set it all up.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sDGBQ7LdEY

Favicons for the following traffic sources have been added in this icon pack:

1) Aweber
2) Blogger
3) Craigslist
4) Delicious
5) Digg
6) Ebay
7) Ezine Articles
Feed Burner
9) Flickr
10) GetResponse
11) Google Adsense (content network)
12) Myspace
13) RSS (for links in feeds)
14) StumbleUpon
15) Technorati
16) Torrents (for various bit torrent providers)
17) Twitter
18) Wordpress (for links within Wordpress blog, or hosted)
19) Yahoo Answers
20) YouTube

If you’re a more experienced Prosper202 user, you’ve probably used it by now with traffic sources other than PPC. I know I have.

I’ve ran campaigns specific to Craiglist, Ebay, YouTube, and Myspace. Though you may not be able to track at the keyword level from each traffic source, you can still see your clicks coming in with the spy view and see any conversions that might occur.

But you’ll quickly notice, that any traffic source that wasn’t included by default in the Prosper202 download, won’t have an associated icon. Instead, you’ll get an ugly question mark in it’s place.

Here’s how to fix that and is quite easy. Let’s do YouTube for example. Read the rest of this entry