Prosper202 is a funky piece of scripting. Trying to split test landing pages through it can be an arduous process. Sometimes the keywords/urls get passed through correctly, sometimes they don’t. I had a coder hack P202 to pieces and make a landing page rotator that works 99% of the time with a few bells and whistles, but for those without access to something like this, you’re left to the stock P202. Without confusing yourself with more PHP redirects or whatever you want to use, I thought up of a simple way to split test your landing pages or offers.

It’s stupid simple, and you guys that have been doing any sort of affiliate marketing for any amount of time will ask me why I decided to post something so “stupid” on my blog. Well, because you probably aren’t the majority of my readers. If you’re looking for something a little more complex than what I have listed here, hire a programmer to code you up something custom to what you specifically need or Google landing page rotator.

Anyways, you set up your landing pages as you normally would in Prosper202. Grab in the tracking links and tracking codes as required.

Get all your URLs and keywords you’ll be targeting together. (Use Affportal.. yeah I love to whore them out, but its an awesome tool set for any beginner and I still use it daily. These tools turn my buck a day that it costs into thousands of dollars. They also have a PHP and ASP landing page rotator available for download to all members, making this post almost irrelevant at this point!)

Make your main-campaign and grab your link for one of the landing pages. Put that landing page into its own sub-campaign (I’m pretty sure all PPV networks use this layout – TV, MT, LeadImpact, etc). Put in all your URLs and keywords and bid the required minimum. Keep all your bids at the minimum.

For any other landing pages, just grab the link for those pages and put them in the sub-campaign under the main campaign. Put in the same URLs at the minimum bid.

Doing this, you are competing against yourself, and it should split the traffic evenly across the landing pages. If you want to go further, you can take the conversion pixels/post backs from the networks or your P202 install, but I just grab sub-ids for a more accurate report. With that data, you’ll be able to see which landing page performs better. What you might find out is one landing page is profitable for one target while another is profitable on a different target.

Once you know what landing page you’ll run, increase your bids so you start getting more impressions from converting targets. Delve deep into profit calculations. You can be the top bidder and make 10% ROI conversion, or you can bid a few levels down, get 1/4th of the traffic, but make 100% ROI.

And that’s how I would split test without editing your P202 install or including any extra external scripts. Prosper202 has just been updated, but I haven’t upgraded yet as I’ve yet to hear how it performs, if Bloosky is sniffing out any data from it, and I’d have to convert all of my edits over to it which is a pain in the ass, takes time and it’s expensive.