Some Changes

T202Wes · Joined: Oct 20th, 2007 Posts: 2432

Ok, I have made some slight changes to export202, it should be less buggy now, with better instructions on how to use it. Anyone having any problems with it?

nateritter · Joined: Feb 8th, 2008 Posts: 36

I just used it to export a YSM campaign and import it into MSN. There wasn't a problem, per se, but for some reason MSN thought it saw errors in the import. I couldn't figure out what errors they thought they were seeing, but it seemed to work fine for me. Just thought you should know.

Oh, and you might want to tell people (if you haven't already) that the process will also bring your tracking urls in, which probably isn't advisable since you really want to have different tracking urls for those different services. Otherwise, in my case, I'm assuming all the clicks through MSN would have shown as YSM.

Outside of those, I'm super happy you created that tool as I was just getting ready to start expanding to new networks. Thank you!

T202Wes · Joined: Oct 20th, 2007 Posts: 2432

nateritter wrote:

I just used it to export a YSM campaign and import it into MSN. There wasn't a problem, per se, but for some reason MSN thought it saw errors in the import. I couldn't figure out what errors they thought they were seeing, but it seemed to work fine for me. Just thought you should know.

Oh, and you might want to tell people (if you haven't already) that the process will also bring your tracking urls in, which probably isn't advisable since you really want to have different tracking urls for those different services. Otherwise, in my case, I'm assuming all the clicks through MSN would have shown as YSM.

Outside of those, I'm super happy you created that tool as I was just getting ready to start expanding to new networks. Thank you!

Ok absolutely, if the MSN is showing errors when you upload it should allow you to download another CSV that says what errors, and then we can see what went wrong.

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Yeah on the tracking URLS, sometimes the best way is to simply, download the CSV, and then "modify" all the DESTINATION URLS in Excel, and then save it as to MSN/Yahoo/Adwords from there, so you can update the destination urls in the actual CSV file.

Thanks nate, glad to be of help look out for the self-hosted one here soon too, its on the way!

Joined: Dec 4th, 2007 Posts: 1190

Yeah Wes is right, the ad requirement for characters and title length, etc is different across all 3. You just need to edit the file in MS Excel and upload it. It takes like 5 seconds in most cases.

Destination URL, just replace also in the Excel file.

nateritter · Joined: Feb 8th, 2008 Posts: 36

Got it. I just didn't realize that when I did it the first time. Thanks guys. Your tools have now made me profitable 2 days in a row. I couldn't have done it without you. If I hit 7 days in a row, I'll start asking more questions about how to really expand the campaign.

But, I wanted to let you know, yesterday was my best day ever... 40% ROI. I know that's not huge for a lot of people, but it's monstrous for me, and I couldn't have done it without Tracking202.