Solution: My Prosper202 Links Go To A Blank Page?

by Bryn Youngblut on July 5, 2010

This is mostly useful for ads like facebook where it’s a bitch to remake them and get approved.

I was recently moving some of my tracking domains to a new server and for whatever reason some of my links stopped working, I guess the latest database backup I made didn’t have the right records in it.

Anyway there is a VERY EASY fix to this. I will just go through how to fix it with a basic example below.

Say this is your link that is broken:    http://mycooltrackingdomain.com/tracking202/redirect/dl.php?t202id=11441&t202kw=

  1. Record the number in the link here (t202id=11441) just the 11441 part.
  2. Now go to Setup > Get links
  3. Generate a new link for the campaign that you’re trying to make the above link work again. Record the t202id= value for that newly generated link.
  4. Login to your websites cpanel (found at mycooltrackingdomain.com/cpanel for example) and open phpMyAdmin.
  5. Find the table called 202_trackers and click browse.
  6. Under tracker_id_public find the number you recorded in step 3 and click the little pencil icon to the left to edit that row.
  7. Change the tracker_id_public value to the one recorded in Step 1.

That’s it, your old link now works again!

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1 browie July 5, 2010 at 5:20 pm

I know prosper has this option but for ppv it’s nice to have fraction of a cent.

You could use your trick to update Avg. CPC on a ppv campaign couldn’t you?

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Bryn Youngblut Reply:

I’m sure theres a way to change that yeah….I haven’t looked into it though.

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2 Ethan July 5, 2010 at 6:15 pm

Hey Bryn, does it matter which SSL certificate you get when installing Prosper?

Is RapidSSL ok?

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Bryn Youngblut Reply:

As far as I know most known SSL certificates would be fine.

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3 jtGraphic: James Thompson July 6, 2010 at 11:03 pm

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Good to hear you know your way around 202 software so well too!

-James

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4 Josh Todd July 9, 2010 at 5:01 pm

That’s a sweet tip dude, this has happened to me before too and I hate it!

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5 Phoenix July 15, 2010 at 7:27 pm

your blog is never a waste

great post. thanks man.

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6 Ryan Eagle July 15, 2010 at 8:21 pm

Great post Bryn. Useful information

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