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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.

1) Go to YouTube.com. You’ll notice that like alot of sites, YouTube includes its logo as a favicon its window tab. You can easily take this icon by inputting “http://www.youtube.com/favicon.ico” in the address bar.

2) Save the favicon.ico as “youtube.ico” inĀ  “/yourdomain/202-img/icons/ppc/” on your Prosper202 server.

3) Edit the file “yourdomain/202-config/functions-Tracking202.php”. After line about 1290, add this:

//youtube

if ((preg_match(“/youtube/i”, $ppc_network_name)) or (preg_match(“/you tube/i”, $ppc_network_name))) {

$ppc_network_icon = ‘youtube.ico’;

}

4) Just make sure that when you name your PPC source (traffic source), you call it “youtube” and not youtube.com, or the icon probably won’t work.

5) You’re done. Clear your browsers cache, log back into Prosper202, and you should now see the YouTube icon when running traffic from YouTube.

6) Repeat for other traffic sources as needed.

Pretty simple. I hope it works out for you!

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