Blog is all fucked up

So, I decieded to fuck with things while I was drunk.

It didn’t work out.  I will have this all fixed tomorrow.

Also, hit me up if you want to meetup at ASW. My schedule is pretty packed but depending on what you want we can make it work. My email is matt-at-mattf.ca.

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Hide Your Traffic Sources

A simple PHP redirect file that allows for multiple offers.  This will clear the referrer using a double meta refresh.

<?php
// In:    GET_['id']
//        GET_['code']
// Out:    your aff link
//
// Each new case is determined by id
// The Link used is appended with code (for use as subid/keyword)
// Add cases as needed.
// See if refresh has run
$s = $_GET['s'];
// Get ID to determine campaign
$id = $_GET['id'];
// Get code for keyword tracking
$code = $_GET['code'];
if($s==’1′){
if($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']==”"){
// Switch ID case to determine link
switch ($id){
case 1:
$link = “http://yourafflink.com/1?kw=”;
break;
case 2:
$link = “http://yourafflink.com/2?kw=”;
break;
default:
die(“Error Processing Request”);
break;
}
$link = $link.$code;
}else{
die(“failed to clear”);
$link = ‘http://google.com’;
}
}else{
$purl=$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
$link = $purl.”?s=1&id=”.$id.”&code=”.$code;
}
// Meta-refresh redirect
?>
<html>
<head>
<?php
echo “<meta http-equiv=refresh content=’0;url=$link’>”;
?>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

To add more offers just make more switch cases.  The code variable can be used to track keywords or subids.

usage: http://yourserver.com/file.php?id=[id]&code=[keyword]

Again, it may not be coded best but it seems to work.

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Simple PHP Dates

I’ve seen people ask how to do future and past dates,  so here’s what I use.

function doDate($when, $days){
if($when=='past'){
echo date('l, F j, Y', time() - 86400 * $days);
}else if($when=='future'){
echo date('l, F j, Y', time() + 86400 * $days);
}
}

Usage: <?php doDate(‘[past/future]‘,[number of days]); ?>

Example: <?php doDate(‘past’,3); ?>

This will show a date either in the past or future for whatever days you want.

It gets the job done.

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Come Beat Me At Poker

I’m going to be playing the Affiliate Summit Charity Poker Tournament. I’m a terrible player but it should be fun.

Register here it seems to be for a good cause.

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Meetup202 Vancouver

Meetup202 Vancouver is in 9 days, if you’re in the area don’t miss it.

Details:

  • Date: December 9th
  • Time: 6PM
  • Where: Saltlik Steak House, 1032 Alberni St, Vancouver

There are a few spots left, so leave your room for a few hours and come by.

Also, today is my birthday. That is all.

Meetup 202 Vancouver link

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Plenty of Fish – Partial Click Log

POF implented a partial click log for any campaign > 1000 clicks.

This log randomly shows demo information for 500 clickers. I’m not gonna lie, its pretty pimp.

It allows you to see the following:

  • Height
  • Body Type
  • Hair Color
  • Search Type
  • Marital Status
  • Has Children
  • Wants Children
  • Smoke
  • Drink
  • Income
  • Country
  • Religion
  • Education

So, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out this is some valuable information.  Thanks Markus for adding this.  We still need some suggested bids / demo size ;)

Plenty of Fish Ads

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Plenty of Fish Self Serve? Introducing POF Ad Manager

POF is rolling out a new self-serve ad system supposedly in the next week or two.
It is still in beta and you can sign up here:
Plenty of Fish Ads

I took some screen shots and will go through it. Basically you register, log in, and end up here:

Main Page

Pretty simple and straight forward.  You can see any recent activity, look at campaigns, and check if anything was updated company wide.  POF made it so one company can have multiple employees who can log in, I like that.

Click on Manage Funding and you will end up on this screen:

funding

This page does not work yet, but it looks pretty simple.  You have to pre-pay, and Canadian residents will pay 5% tax.  You can set it to auto fund.

The Create a Campaign page looks like this:

create

Pretty standard, choose your bids, running dates, frequency caps, daily spend.  A lot of people have told them to add day-parting. hopefully they will.

The targeting is what makes Plenty of Fish stand out from some self-serve advertisers. Notice all of the options:

targeting

You can really pin point down to a demographic.

One thing that may be lacking is the Reporting.  As you can see below it looks like it will only show a date range of impressions and clicks.  The system isn’t live so I don’t know for sure, but hopefully there will be some more options.

reports

Overall it seems nice.  It will most likely be saturated to shit, but the strong survive.  Check out Plenty of Fish and try out the Ad Manager for yourself.

Read the full post and talk about it on Wickedfire

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Facebook Compliance? Yes Ma'am

A lot of people have been dealing with facebook compliance issues, mainly not being able to make their rebill anymore.

I decided it was over, no more sneaky stuff for me.  I’ve decided to be 100% compliant with Facebook terms.  Ever since, things have been looking better.

Moral of the story, the Facebook gravy train is over. Find a legit offer and run it, there is still money to be made.

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Updates, or not

I haven’t been posting or hurr durring for a while, the reason is work.

I have work to do, and its more important then socail presence online.

So, I will be droppin some no bullshit info soon just need to finish some stuff.

Happy am’ing, and remember to checkout meetup202 in vancouver next month.

(Did this from phone)

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New Facebook Ads Manager

Facebook made an update. So I decided to throw out some pics and what I think.

This is the new main screen:

Facebook Ad Manager Main View

Facebook Ad Manager Main View

As you can see, they changed a lot.  Most noticeably is you can edit multiple campaigns and make changes on the main page.

Editing Multiple Campaigns

Editing Multiple Campaigns

You can select check boxes, click edit, and make changes to campaign settings to multiple campaigns.

This is the new “Campaign View” in Facebook ad manager:

Campaign View

Campaign View

Again you can make edits to multiple ads. I am lazy, and didnt want to take more pics and edit them.

Summary:

  • They made it so you can edit multiple ads/campaigns at a time
  • They made it harder to navigate
  • I don’t know where anything is
  • It isn’t much faster
  • I liked the greasemonkey script more with the old ad manager

This isn’t in-depth, and overall it doesn’t seem worth the changes unless they add dayparting.

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