Hello All,
Adam Figueroa here! some of you know me and some of you don’t. I handle most of the support for ProTrackerPlus and after receiving a question the other day about Groups and Campaigns I felt the need to go into much detail and help others to understand this more.
First off, I want to tell you about Adcodes and Groups. The Adcode and Group work hand-in-hand in categorizing your campaigns, which allow you to view your statistics quickly and effectively. There are two different ways you can utilize your Adcode and Groups to Organize your Campaigns according to your style:
1. By Site - This first way is the best way to see which Traffic Exchange is Producing the most unique clicks and my favorite, sales!
We will start by learning how to set up Groups. Under the Campaign menu click on the “Campaign Groups” tab. To unlock the full potential of the “By Site” organization strategy you would need to set up one group for each traffic exchange you advertise on for example: If you advertise on ClicknPutt and Powasurf, you would make two different groups and label one “ClicknPutt” and the other “Powasurf”. See, easy as pie!
Now we will learn how to make Adcodes that will be organized into your groups. On the main member page click on the “Add A New Campaign” link or under the campaigns menu click on the “Add New Tracker” tab. Here is an example on how you would set up your Adcode if you were advertising the 4×4hits main page (4×4hits.com) on Gone Clicking:
gc4×4hitsmain
See? pretty simple huh… The “GC” stands for GoneClicking (the traffic exchange we are advertising on), “4×4hits is the program we are advertising, and “main” just shows what exactly we are advertising (which was the main page). If you were tracking a banner it would look like this:
gc4×4hitsbanner
If you were tracking a textlink it would look like this:
gc4×4hitstext
Say you were advertising more than one banner or textlinks from 4×4hits… you can set them up two different ways. The quick way will allow you to use one tracking link for however many banners/textlinks you have from the same program…
Ex: gc4×4hitsbanners (and you would use the same tracking URL for each banner)
The drawback of using one tracking URL for multiple banners is that you can’t tell which banner is more effective.
The longer way would be to set up one individual tracking link for each banner. Although this method is pretty exhaustive (especially if you advertise on multiple traffic exchanges), it is well worth the effort because you will be able to tell which
banner/textlink performs best so you can adjust your marketing strategy and reap the benefits of your newly found knowledge. To keep track of which ad is which, you can set-up your Adcode like so:
gc4×4hitsbanner1
gc4×4hitsbanner2
gc4×4hitsbanner3
So are you getting all this? Great!
And now is the time to talk about purpose… What is your purpose in life? haha no just kidding! This is pretty self-explanatory, just choose whether you want to view clicks, clicks and actions, clicks and sales, or clicks actions and sales for your statistics.
No need to check the “Split Test Stats Only” unless your campaign is in a split-test which will be explained in articles to come. 
Now if your campaign doesn’t cost anything to run then you can just skip to the next paragraph, but if your campaign costs something to run then listen in. You have two sections “Cost” and “Cost Type”, if you bought a newsletter ad/sponsor ad that costs $30 then in the “Cost” section you would enter “30.00″ in the tab (NOTE: It must be in the 0.00 format. 30.00 is acceptable, 30 isn’t it). If it was a one time payment then you would leave the “Cost Type” section blank. But lets say that you had to pay $30 every two weeks and you want to pay for six weeks, well in that case you would check the “Recurring” box and enter in 14 in the “days” tab and 3 in the “times” tab. If you have a Pay-Per-Click Ad paying .02 a click then enter “0.02″ in the “Cost” tab and check the PPC box in the “Cost Type” section.
Lastly I will show you how to write out a description that will expound upon your Adcode. Basically what I do is just take the Adcode and type out what it is, I will use my past Adcode example:
If the Adcode is:
gc4×4hitsmain
Then my description would be:
4×4hits mainpage on GoneClicking
It doesn’t really matter what you put in the description tab… just as long as it helps you identify what the campaign is if you forget.
Almost done, Phew! Now all you have to do is click on the “Add New Campaign” button on the bottom. Then it will send you to the framebreaker test and now you are done!
Thank you for reading my article and if you have any questions, comments, or perhaps a suggestion for what I should do my next article on just send in a support ticket at www.protrackerplus.com/contact.html
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