Ok to make this truly randomly, we used PHP to help us determine the winners of the ASE pass giveaway. The script takes 1000 votes and then each vote is randomly given to a user. The two users with the most votes will win the free passes to ASE.The top voted user will receive the Free EXPO pass, and the user with the 2nd most amount of votes will receive the Full Pass to ASE. We have included the official contest php code snippet below that will determine the winners!

<?  
$lucky[1]["name"] = "Neil";
$lucky[2]["name"] = "Wes Moehlenbruck";
$lucky[3]["name"] = "Ross";
$lucky[4]["name"] = "Jamie Shiller";
$lucky[5]["name"] = "Scott";
$lucky[6]["name"] = "Jason";
$lucky[7]["name"] = "Greg";

for ($i = 0; $i < 1000; $i++) { 
    $num = rand(1,7);    
    $lucky[$num]["votes"]++;
}

foreach( $lucky as $key => $row ) {
    printf("%s received %s votes <br/>", $row["name"],  $row["votes"]);
}  
?>

Below is the winners the PHP script randomly selected, this script was only ran once to determine the winners.

Neil received 140 votes
Wes Moehlenbruck received 153 votes
Ross received 130 votes
Jamie Shiller received 146 votes
Scott received 137 votes
Jason received 166 votes
Greg received 128 votes

And the winners are!

• Jason wins the Expo Pass with 166 votes
• and Wes Moehlenbruck wins the Full Pass having the 2nd most amount of votes, with 153 votes

For those who won please email Steven to get your free pass. Thanks to everyone who participated. Sorry if you lost this contest, as they say better luck next time, but really, we do appreciate all the testimonials you submitted and it means a lot to us. Thank you!

We wanted to do a quick blog post and shout out our appreciation to everyone who donated. Thanks for helping out and supporting 202! You guys are awesome!

Paul Bourque of Uber Affiliate

Norman Janssen of Marketing DAO

Jacob Petrovich of Indoor Sports

Zaviaer Flowers

If you're interesting in helping out and supporting 202 as well, you can help donate to our cause.

Today, June 30th, is the last day for you guys to win your Free Affiliate Summit East Ticket to attend the conference in Boston this August 10th through 12th. We are giving away one full pass and one expo pass!

If you intend to attend, your chances of winning is very high! So far we've only had five entries and there will be two winners! So if you want to attend, feel free to join in. The requirement is simple, all you have to do is leave a comment on the ORIGINAL contest post of 50 words or more giving us feedback on what you think of our software and service. That's it!

Winner will be announced shortly after the contest ends and you guys have over a month to plan your airfare and hotel. The on site hotel is completely booked but you can stay at the Westin hotel roughly 1.2 miles away for around the same price as you would at the Boston Seaport Hotel (where the event is being held). That's roughly a 4-min drive. In either event, Team202 will be there and you can come meet us at our meet market table #69. Hope to see everyone who's attending there!

Back on March 21st, I wrote a blog post regarding Google's New Rule regarding destination URLs before it was even implemented. Apparently not many people was reading this blog back then and the issue still comes up today. I constantly get questions regarding this OR I read about it somewhere else. If you haven't read the original post, please do so now.

Just to clarify, Prosper202 and Tracking DOES work with Adwords. Per the terms and conditions, your DISPLAY URL and LANDING PAGE URL must match. This does NOT affect the destination URL or path in which it takes to get there. If your DISPLAY URL is www.yourdomain.com or www.offerpage.com and your destination URL is www.tracking202.com or www.prosper202.com, this does NOT matter because it redirects over to www.yourdomain.com or www.offerpage.com making this your final LANDING PAGE URL. Only the beginning URL and ending URL matters. How it gets to this final page does not.

It would be a different story if your display URL is www.yourdomain.com and you have www.prosper202.com and it ends up at www.prosper202.com. That is when the issue comes in, but of course that isn't the case. I hope this clarifies the issue with anyone using Prosper202 and Tracking202 as I have noticed there are several misconceptions. If you need to, please quote the original post as those were words directly quoted from Google.

A recent conversation I had with Yahoo involved a quality score tip I thought might help out a lot of users. If you running campaigns through your own landing page, and is redirect visitors to the offer page via your site to the offer site, often times the visitor can not go back to your site via one click of the back button. The reason for this is fairly simple, when they hit back once, they run right into the redirection link and it goes back to the offer page again.

Although I can't say for certain how much this actually affects your quality score as it is within your site and not on your site (as in landing page), according to Yahoo it still does matter. Of course what they say and what they enforce has been two totally different subjects. Regardless, a quick way to bypass this is to simple link your landing page to an iframe page of the offer site on your domain.

For example. You own www.yourdomain.com. You normally link your LP to the offer site via www.yourdomain.com/offer.php where offer.php redirects to www.offersite.com. Instead, to avoid the back button issue, link www.yourdomain.com to www.yourdomain.com/offer.php where offer.php is actually an iframe of the offer page. This way the user looks like they are still on your site and you don't get ding for the quality score for Yahoo (according to them) for the back button issue.

Of course with every testing method, there are positives and negatives to doing it both ways. I won't get into details here but it is up to you if you don't mind the chance of being ding a few points. Yahoo's quality score has always been somewhat of a mess anyway in my opinion. That said, another recommendation and this is more of a personal preference, you guys can create a folder directory for your offer page (whether it's a redirect or an iframe), and create an index.php file for it. This way your links look more like www.yourdomain.com/offer/ rather than www.yourdomain.com/offer.php. Again it's a matter of personal preference but I like the directory look better as it has a cleaner feel.