Because you wanted it, Australia has now been added to the popular WorldProxy202 service!

For those who don't know already, we have a toolbar you can install which gives you instant access to WorldProxy202 any where, any time. We have a new update for existing users, please download the new version 1.0.1 which supports Australia. You can download it here. For those who want assurance that our firefox toolbar is clean and does not track your usage and send us any data of any kind; our toolbar has been given the 100% clean adward by softpedia.

Toolbar202 1.0.1 - SOFTPEDIA "100% CLEAN" AWARD

This software product was tested in the Softpedia labs on: 30 July 2008

Softpedia guarantees that Toolbar202 1.0.1 is 100% CLEAN, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including but not limited to: spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors.

This software product was tested thoroughly and was found absolutely clean, therefore it can be installed with no concern by any computer user. However, it should be noted that this product will be retested periodically and the award may be withdrawn, so you should check back this page and especially the date of testing shown above.

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Have any more countries that you'd like to see be added to WorldProxy202? Let us know by posting in our comments below, if enough people are interested we will add the country.

About Worldproxy202

WorldProxy202 is designed for affiliate marketers promoting international campaigns. We have put together in one location, proxies from around the world that affiliate marketers can now easily use to view international campaigns.

If for instance, there is a campaign that only accepts US traffic, anyone not in the US is blocked from seeing the offer. Now what if this is simply someone in Canada trying to promote a US related campaign but is unable to see it because Canada is a blocked from seeing the offer? This makes it extremely difficult sometimes for affiliate marketers to promote effectively overseas. WorldProxy202 is a simple application to solve all of that, and provide reliable proxy websites from around the world for affiliate marketers to use. If that same Canadian affiliate now uses a US Proxy with our services, they can now see the offer, and see everything like they were on a US computer.

We are committed to providing as many access points around the globe as needed, if you need a proxy location that is not listed please contact us below and we'll try to add it! Finally, like everything else we create, WorldProxy202 is a free service.

I just wanted to make a quick blog post out there to alert everyone that there is the possibility of people going around posing to be 202 members either with fake emails or fake AIM screen names such as T202Name.

Please be advise that the only 202 team members ever to exist are all listed on the executive contact page. If their contact information does not match any of the people listed on that page, chances are, they are an imposter lying to you. I don't really know what their intent and purpose is nor do I really care. I firmly believe that it can't be of good faith if they had to lie about who they are in the first place. Thank you to all those that brought this to my attention.

Do not give them any of your information, they do not work for Prosper202 or anything related to our services. If they ask for your username and password do not give it to them or show them any information about your campaign as they are impostors and not real Prosper202 employees.

In reality, the only two contacts you guys will probably get in touch would should be T202Steven and T202Wes on AIM. If anyone messages you guys from something otherwise, please disregard it.

This is a guest post by Ross Gordon. Ross has been a huge help to Tracking202 team, even from the earliest of days before we were even launched. Ross heads the blog over at phpBay Pro Tips, which helps people make money on the Ebay Publisher Network using phpBay. Ross has helped share ideas on building the Prosper202 products and applications, he has helped promote and he is also responsbile for creating the text on the Tracking202 homepage, and the Tracking202 about us page. Ross is sharing some tips on the Export202 product which he uses to scale his campaigns, Export202 can be accessed online at export202.com, or it is also avaliable in the self-hosted version of any Prosper202 installation. Thanks Ross for your help, and without further ado here is Ross' guest blog post.

I use Export 202 all the time to scale my campaigns across the three major networks. I typically start a campaign on Google, and after optimizing it there, I use Export 202 to bring that same campaign to Yahoo and MSN.

While Export 202 is an amazing tool that will save you hours of time, there are still a few things you should remember to do along the way, especially when exporting to Yahoo.

First, while Export 202 does translate Google campaigns to Yahoo, it does not create new URLs for each ad. So when you transfer the Google campaign to Yahoo, it will still be tracking clicks as Google, and that will screw up your metrics and will make your reporting much less valuable.

So you will need to create a new URL as you normally would. Select the same ad that you were using in Google, only make sure to use Yahoo has the search engine. Now go to your CSV file of the new Yahoo version of the campaign and find the ad you want to change, then copy the old URL and find & replace it using the new URL. Do this for all your ads (may take a little time if you have a lot of different ads).

Next, I make sure my bids are right. I have noticed that after I export a Google campaign that sometimes the yahoo version has a two bid prices in the CSV (even if I had content network disabled). There have been times when Yahoo used the bid from the content network as the bid for the search network. So I had all $0.05 bids. It’s no big deal if you have a few ad groups. But when you have 1000 changing manually in Yahoo is not an option. So I make sure to do a find & replace to make the low bid prices be what I want.

Another thing I like to do is lower all my bids from what they were in Google. Yahoo traffic tends to be cheaper (not always) so I like to drop my bids by 5-10 cents to start on cheaper keywords and $.50- $1.00 on expensive keywords. But test for yourself and see if your niche is cheaper on Yahoo.

The last thing I do is I add the negative keywords manually to the account or campaign level since I noticed that I tend to get error messages when I upload the CSV with the negative keywords. You want to make sure you don’t forget to do this or you could lose a good amount of cash.

That’s pretty much it. After that your campaign should be ready to roll.

If you guys sent me the required info, Yahoo will get in touch you with you guys shortly whenever they can. If they don't contact you within a week, please email me again so that I may follow up with Yahoo regarding getting you guys that Gold Account.

Normal Conditions

While talking to some users, apparently some things came to my attention that obviously should NOT be there. The regular standard in general for all Yahoo users who wants Gold Accounts is you must spend $1500 in one month or at least of $500 per month for three consecutive months before you qualify. You would then need to request for the Gold Account.

The Deal

The deal 202 got with Yahoo was if you do $200/month, you would get an Gold Account. If you didn't already do $200/month on Yahoo but you did so on Google or elsewhere and can prove it, they'll work with you to get the Gold Account and many have already gotten their Gold Account approved shortly having Yahoo called.

The Issue

However this isn't the case with everyone. One user told me Yahoo called and talk to them and told them they can only get a Gold Account after spending $2500/month. This is total and utter bull because that's more than the standard itself. If you've contacted me and Yahoo called you, and told you something else than what I've written here today, please email me again and let me know what happened. I'll call Yahoo myself and get things resolved because it is not cool for them to tell me one thing and you guys another. I sincerely apologize if Yahoo did otherwise.

We want showcase 2 user submitted pieces of content! Justin Rumpf has shared with everyone an auto post-back url script for Prosper202 users. This will automatically update your subids for some of the offers you run on networks that allow post back urls.

And thanks to Neil Turner for finding how to get around a facebook error, because sometimes using Tracking202 links with Facebook, Facebook doesn't like the URLs we give it. Neil has found a-way-around this.

#1: Justin's Post-Back URL Script

You can find Justin's auto post-back script here.

#2: Neil's Facebook Trick (copied from forum) - source

"Hey, If anyone has tried using proser202 to track facebook campaigns you may have noticed you get an invalid URL by facebook when you try to use the link that proser 202 generates. There is a simple work around to get it working. When you set up your landing page in prosper202 make sure your use the full url including the extact page you are sending people to. So instead of writting:

www.somesite.com

write:

www.somesite.com/index.php

Now when you get your link facebook will except it. For some reason they do not allow links in the following format: www.somesite.com/?sumphp=bla but they will accept it as www.somesite.com/index.php?sumphp=bla Hope that was clear." - Neil Turner