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How to Strip Prosper/Tracking202 Info From URL
Posted by admin | Posted in Branding | Posted on 15-04-2009
I read this somewhere a while a back, but I don’t remember where, so I’m just going to post my own rendition. If you use Prosper202 or Tracking202 for your affiliate tracking software you’re well aware of the tracking string that is added to your URLS, it usually looks something like “?t202id=32254&t202kw=”. While this part of the URL is really important since it will track everything, it is also ugly for users and can also giveaway info about your campaign to other affiliates. There is a way to strip all this out and still have it track correctly.
What you have to do is setup a new redirect file, name it something like redirect.php or tracking.php and inside of this file put this html code:
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<script src=”http://yourtrackingdomain/tracking202/static/landing.php?lpip=1303″ type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”> window.location=’http://www.clean-url-users-go-to.com’;</script>
</body>
</html>
After you’ve set this file up and uploaded, you take your orginal P202 tracking string, “?t202id=32254&t202kw=” and add it to the end of this newly created redirect file to look something like http://www.yourdomain.com/redirect.php?t202id=32254&t202kw=. Now what you’ve done is send the user to this redirect file, which contains your Prosper202 landing page javascript to track the user (which will track against the URL parameters you added), counted the user in Prosper because the javascript was triggered, then your users will be sent to a clean URL. On this clean URL you will still use your outbound Prosper PHP redirects as normal and it will still count your click throughs.
Will this work for T202? I’ve been trying to get this to work for T202 but has not worked out!
Curious to know if this has been tested on T202? Did you only try this with Prosper202?