Hooray! iMobiTraxxers,

We have our first tutorial on adult traffic ad network – Exoclick. If you’re not familiar with them, then Google them. But if you want the magic cards to the deck, the bulk of what’s talked about regarding Exoclick is behind closed doors at the IMGrind Private Forums.

However, I’m feeling rather generous tonight, so here’s a tutorial on how to quickly setup campaigns Exoclick.

This is a mobile only campaign.

What you need:

• Hosting
• iMobiTrax Tracking
• Revived Media Affiliate Account
• Offer
• Creatives
• Description & Restrictions for targeting

Step 1. Offer Recon + Assets Round-up

Revived Media – In your affiliate panel, you want to test offer id: 1438. You will see the description of the offer like below:

ID: 1438 Name: Playaga – Germany – 2 Landing Pages

Conversion flow: Content billing flow: The user enters the landing page and selects their content. A message is prompted. Once they select then message and then confirm by clicking again (2 click flow) the conversion pixel fires.

Target handsets: All

Accepted carriers: Vodafone, T Mobile, Eplus, and O2.

Restrictions: No Wifi. Usage of the word “FREE” or words with the same or similar meaning are not allowed. Additionally, creative’s used may not be misleading or deceptive. No i-framing, incent, content locking, or SMS.

Landing Pages: There are 2 of them, and they are NSFW so I’m just choosing the first one here.

Creatives: I see a few 300×250 which are perfect for the mobile 300×250 placements Exoclick has available.

So, my idea here is to test Offer: 1438 Playaga Germany -2 LP’s, 4 banners at 300×250 with each banner spit 25% between each lander.

Easy enough, let’s set that up right away…

Step 2. iMobiTrax Campaign Setup

Ok, I know Exoclick has a couple of their own click tokens. You have to ask a Rep or search deep for them, but they are now available to you if you were not aware, in the screenshot below:

So, I got my 3 click tokens setup. Now, when I run custom click token reports in iMobiTrax, it will show me how well/bad a sitename is performing + campaignID + which of my 300×250 banners. Yep, we added in 1 so now we just switch ad=1 to ad=2 with banner two and with banner three ad=3, so on and so forth. Pretty simple to see banner reports ehhh?:-)

Got my details setup into a new iMobiTrax campaign:

As you can see, I already added the extra click tokens and pre-populated them here in our iMobiTrax campaign. I’m also passing only iMobiTrax subid to offer.

Perfect, I scroll down in iMobiTrax and name my offer urls + input each affiliate link, properly constructed, into each offer url field in iMobiTrax. I’m splitting both of these landing pages at 50% each. Both payout $16.00 CPA.

Correct Setup From Revived Media + iMobiTrax

You come to a point, where there is a little back and forth between your Revived Media Panel and iMobiTrax Campaign Setup. I want to make that as smooth as possible here.

Revived Media – So, the first thing is to scroll through your offer, until you get down to the Generate Tracking URL Box.  This is what you see:

Revived Media – Click on “Add Affiliate Subid” type “xx” into the box. Click Update, and look at your new link in the tracking link box now:

Now, take that link, but after &aff_sub=, chop the xx. Don’t use it in iMobiTrax. Chop the xx off, so the affiliate link looks like this, then input this as your offer url in the boxes provided:

http://go.leadforce.net/aff_c?offer_id=1438&aff_id=1294&aff_sub=

That’s where your affiliate subid number is dynamically inserted for that campaign. Right after your subid comes the custom tokens you set in iMobiTrax for easy analysis and shuffling around.

Now, when I got to pull the 2nd lp from Revived Media and construct my link. I added xx to subid and clicked update, but now my link looks funky Ruck?

Really, this is simple too.

See the &aff_sub=xx

Copy that from the url, and stick it on the end. Basically, swap out &url_id=2086 with &aff_sub=xx. Also, make sure you cutoff the “xx” directly before sliding into iMobiTrax.

Just make sure it looks and displays correctly before implementing into iMobiTrax. The current iMobiTrax form for your affiliate url above would be:

http://go.leadforce.net/aff_c?offer_id=1438&aff_id=1294&url_id=2086&aff_sub=

Seriously, iMobiTrax campaign is setup. Scroll down until you see your campaign link. Make sure to always test it! Also, grab your postback URL from iMobiTrax and place it correctly in the offer at iMobiTrax that you are running:

Your postback in iMobiTrax looks like this on the end of ?subid=NETWORK_TOKEN

Grab the entire post back url from IMobiTrax. Paste into the Postback URL box of Revived Media:

Make this in iMobitrax that you pasted into Revived Media:

From this –> http://www.trackapp.net/t/track.php?subid=NETWORK_TOKEN

To This –> http://www.trackapp.net/t/track.php?subid={aff_sub}

Click Save. You’re done with Revived Media + iMobiTrax. Now, it’s time to setup that campaign on Exoclick!

Ryan, Bill and myself have that entire campaign process down in under 2 minutes flat. Once you have access to traffic sources, and you have your traffic sources, their extra token information, their ad unit types and sizes and ad options they offer, you can literally walk in with iMobiTrax and level the place to the ground, that’s why we built it.

Well, to be straight up, Exoclick has shit for mobile targeting options, I went very generic with my targeting. That’s the power of iMobiTrax. Doesn’t matter what I speculate or walk into, it’s there to record and display everything down to the most granular of variables. Ok, back to Exoclick setup:

Traffic Types – Mobile: All Mobile Devices

Mobile Carriers – All Mobile Carriers

Category – Adult: All

Ad Format – Banner 300×250

Countries – Germany

Yea, $0.14 WTF for Mobile German traffic….Hmm, we’ll see about this.

Sites: Targeting: Premium Placements.

Here’s a few in a screenshot I chose. I was shooting for the 300×250 mobile ad unit that slips so neatly in flow with the adult tube sites out there.

My Marketing Material:

NSWF!! – Might as well be transparent as possible here. Here are the 4 most professional looking banners I want to start testing.

Note: Each of these 4 banners is hot-linked to each landing page.

Remember: 2 landing pages, 4 banners

There you go. That baby is all setup and ready to run.

Once you spend $50.00 you’ll get data back on which banners performed best for each offer lp. You’ll also know which LP converted better.

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Hey iMobiTraxxers,

I thought it would be cool to mash-up some data from Stats Counter and Google. Now, of course, nothing is 100% but here’s a really good idea of where we are at globally on mobile.

If you like, give it a like, share or tweet – thanks!

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Hey iMobiTraxxers,

Continuing on with our series of traffic source campaign setups, I wanted to shoot-out our next Adult Marketing Tutorial featuring…Traffic Junky!

If you’re not familiar with Traffic Junky, they are basically a Self-Serve Marketplace to buy ads on some of the most popular adult web and mobile web properties in the world.

In other words, they kickass for adult web+ mobile traffic.

Here’s an easy to follow tutorial on how to setup campaigns on Traffic Junky:

What You Need:

• Hosting
• iMobiTrax Tracking
• Revived Media Affiliate Account
• Offer
• Creatives
• Descriptions + Restrictions For Targeting

Step 1. Offer Recon + Assets Gather

Revived Media – In your affiliate panel, you will want to test Offer ID: 1696 – iGirls Greece

Conversion flow: The user arrives at the landing page and selects the content they want to download. As long as they’re in an accepted WAP gateway their MSISDN header is detected and they don’t have to manually enter their phone number. They’re then sent an SMS message with a link they must click for the conversion pixel to fire.

Accepted carriers: Wind

Target devices: iPhones & Androids.

Payout: $5.60 CPA

Accepted traffic: Adult, Media Buys, Search, Push Notifications, Mobile Applications, and Mobile Web.

Restrictions: No incent, content locking, or wifi traffic.

Creatives: Tons of pre-approved banners + text ads to start testing.

Tip: I see a few of the 300×250, 300×50 and 320×50  Mobile Banner Placement Size that I like so much and I know Traffic Junky has mobile inventory on that ad unit. Taadaa!

Step 2. iMobiTrax Campaign Setup

Few tips here. One, Traffic Junky does have custom IP Telco Targeting. Their are options to narrow down certain carriers by IP Addresses. Currently they allow it for some of the more knowledgeable people, so you will have to inquire about it. Second, Traffic Junky doesn’t have any traffic/click tokens/parameters that I’m aware of.

We add Traffic Junky as a traffic source, no custom tokens:

Don’t worry. When we setup the campaign, we can quickly put int the “ad1″ tokens and values so we can track each creative/banner/text ad’s performance:

Great, I’m now setting up my campaign in iMobiTrax. I’ve set my campaign name, Active Yes, Campaign Group, Traffic Source, CPC (Cost-Per- Click) to my ads and I’m also using the custom “ad” token so I can track which banners are performing the best on Traffic Junky for my campaign.

Now, I’m going to scroll down and enter my offer names, urls, payouts.

Luckily, this a simple direct-linked offers from the banners and I’m not split-testing any other offers against it. (Because I know it converts).

Correct Setup From Revived Media + iMobiTrax

You come to a point, where there is a little back and forth between your Revived Media Panel and iMobiTrax Campaign Setup. I want to make that as smooth as possible here.

Revived Media – So, the first thing is to scroll through your offer, until you get down to the Generate Tracking URL Box.  This is what you see:

Revived Media – Click on “Add Affiliate Subid” type “xx” into the box. Click Update, and look at your new link in the tracking link box now:

Now, take that link, but after &aff_sub=, chop the xx. Don’t use it in iMobiTrax. Chop the xx off, so the affiliate link looks like this, then input this as your offer url in the boxes provided:

http://go.leadforce.net/aff_c?offer_id=1696&aff_id=1294&aff_sub=

That’s where your affiliate subid number is dynamically inserted for that campaign. Right after your subid comes the custom tokens you set in iMobiTrax for easy analysis and shuffling around.

Now, when I got to pull the 2nd lp from Revived Media and construct my link. I added xx to subid and clicked update, but now my link looks funky Ruck?

Really, this is simple too.

See the &aff_sub=xx

Copy that from the url, and stick it on the end. Basically, swap out &url_id=2086 with &aff_sub=xx. Also, make sure you cutoff the “xx” directly before sliding into iMobiTrax.

Just make sure it looks and displays correctly before implementing into iMobiTrax. The current iMobiTrax form for your affiliate url above would be:

http://go.leadforce.net/aff_c?offer_id=1438&aff_id=1294&url_id=2086&aff_sub=

Seriously, iMobiTrax campaign is setup. Scroll down until you see your campaign link. Make sure to always test it! Also, grab your postback URL from iMobiTrax and place it correctly in the offer at iMobiTrax that you are running:

See the &ad=1?

That’s your first campaign link to your first banner in Traffic Junky.

Then your second banner, copy n paste same url but change out the =1 to =2  so it looks like &ad=2 for banner 2. Proceed to do that for each individual banner and you will be able to report back which ones are performing good / poor for you. Simple!

Your postback in iMobiTrax looks like this on the end of ?subid=NETWORK_TOKEN

Grab the entire post back url from IMobiTrax. Paste into the Postback URL box of Revived Media:

Make this in iMobitrax that you pasted into Revived Media:

From this –> http://www.trackapp.net/t/track.php?subid=NETWORK_TOKEN

To This –> http://www.trackapp.net/t/track.php?subid={aff_sub}

Click Save. You’re done with Revived Media + iMobiTrax. Now, it’s time to setup that campaign on Traffic Junky!

Ryan, Bill and myself have that entire campaign process down in under 2 minutes flat. Once you have access to traffic sources, and you have your traffic sources, their extra token information, their ad unit types and sizes and ad options they offer, you can literally walk in with iMobiTrax and level the place to the ground, that’s why we built it.

Well, to be straight up, Traffic Junky has crap for mobile targeting options, I went very generic with my targeting. That’s the power of iMobiTrax. Doesn’t matter what I speculate or walk into, it’s there to record and display everything down to the most granular of variables. Ok, back to Traffic Junky setup:

TJ First Step – Pricing & Campaign Inventory

You can see I chose, Greece +  Mobile + Straight Inventory:

Great, I see some Mobile 300×250 placements I can test. So I choose to buy this placement below:

300×250 Mobile Footer Banner at $0.08 per 1,000 impressions ( 8cent CPM).

Great, I’ve got two banners for this campaign at sizes 300×250. Let’s do this!

In Traffic Junky, after you choose a site to buy ads on, you have to pick a zone. Pay attention closely here as I’ve been messing around and bought the wrong size placement, more than once, acting like a jackass. Here’s the one ad unit I wanted:

Mobile Pornhub Network Footer

Then I enter my campaign information into Traffic Junky:

Set my budgets, shieettt mobile greece is expensive. At least on paper it looks that way. Won’t know till we test!

Now, we’re going to input our creatives. There is a little bit of back n forth here with iMobiTrax. So pay attention:

I took our campaign link –> http://www.trackapp.net/t/click.php?c=33&key=00cj56ywak21o487dll650e1&ad=1

I took our two banners -

Campaign Link 1 = Banner 1 + 2d=1

Campaign Link 2 = Banner 2 + ad=2

Upload the two banners + hotlink them to each imobitrax campaign link ad=1 and ad=2 accordingly and happy testing!

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Hey iMobiTraxxers,

I bring forth an easy to understand tutorial on how to setup a campaign on the mobile advertising network mMedia.

Ok, so basically, I’ve gone ahead and pick a mobile apps offer from Revived Media. Offer ID: 1644 Love Again iPhone App – US.

I know that mMedia has a load of app traffic. Plus, this offer accepts Wifi traffic! High-five!

What I literally need to find is a load of cheap traffic in the US, CA, AU and UK segmented by iPhones + Androids, with Carrier + Wifi targeting options. Ahh man, this is going to be easy because I’m literally going to have to cut non-performing Operating Systems, Manufacturers and specific Devices. As for market share, all 4 of these countries are heavy in smartphone penetration AND adoption rates. In conclusion – the fucking market is huge, and getting bigger. Do I need to say more?

Step 1 – mMedia Self Service Campaigns

Login into your account. Click on Campaigns. Click on New Campaign. You come to the campaign basic and tracking page:

Step 2 – In another screen ( I use two-monitors) I open My iMobiTrax Dashboard and click on Campaigns, then Add Campaign:

Hopefully this makes sense. I need to complete step 2 to actually complete step 1. I’ve named my campaign in iMobiTrax in step 2 along with activating the campaign. set my campaign group, an unassigned traffic source because I actually don’t have mMedia in this installation of iMobiTrax, so I won’t be needing or using their tokens anyway. My minimum cpc I always set to $0.10 but depending on your campaign setup in Step 1 – this can actually go up or down which you will want to edit back here on step 2 once the campaign is live and running. (Tip)

So back on Step 1 – I’ve copied over my campaign name from iMobiTrax over to mMedia. Now, I want to fill in the details of my mMedia campaign. You will notice in this campaign, my goal is to spend $50 as fast as possible. That’s why my daily budget is equal to my total budget along with a cost-per-click payment type, I’m starting the ads right now and run till tomorrow at this same time, so hopefully I can spend my entire $50.00 budget gathering data and I chose no parting because I have no previous data that tells me if this app converts better on a separate day or hour.

But…You can and will definitely want to get that granular to improve your ROI on the campaign (Big Tip)

Select Next, then let’s choose where we want to run the campaign (US of course). If you don’t know, mMedia offers 4 different types of campaigns – All Countries, Country Specific, Region Specific and Hyper Local. Hyper Local is something I want to talk about later on because targeting mobile app dating campaigns can fill the bank quick! For now, we choose the US:

+ Rep to mMedia for a pretty simple and easily navigable interface. Legit, smooth and to the point. No clutter.

You will notice on the right of your mMedia panel, you have a Campaign Forecast module. When I changed my country to the US, mine went from a minimum bid price of $0.05 to now $0.08. So as of right now, I’m still under the $0.10 I bid in iMobiTrax. . The little delivery probability says lookin good…ok, I am gonna take their word for it.

Now you will come to mMedia’s 4 main mobile ad targeting options – Device Targeting, Carrier Targeting, Audience Targeting, Site Optimization

I know from my offer description (not to over-think this), I need iphone traffic in the United States. I choose Device Targeting.

mMedia has two options when you click on Device Targeting – Operating Systems & Type (Which I Choose) and Advanced Model Selection. Their targeting options are getting better and better each month it seems!

I choose Operating System: iOS, Select Devices: Smartphones

Now, I will be getting feature phones, tablets and other connected device type traffic (think Amazon Kindle)

I click on Save Targeting.

My bid price now went down to a Minimum $0.06 CPC bid.

You will then be brought to the Select Creatives page of your mMedia campaign setup. Here’s where we will have to alternate a bit back n forth from Revived Media to iMobitrax and back here again. I will make this as simple as I can though:

 Step 3 – Grabbing the offer information from Revived to put into iMobiTrax:

ID: 1644 Love Again iPhone App – US

Conversion flow: The user arrives at the app store and downloads the application. The conversion pixel fires on successful installation.

Accepted carriers: All including Wifi.

Target devices: iPhones

I go under “Generate Tracking Link” Click on “Affiliate Sub ID” and input xx, which appends &aff_sub=xx to my Revived Media Affiliate Link:

Now, I copy that link and take it back over to my iMobiTrax Campaign Setup. Since this is a simple direct link campaign setup, it’s very simple to implement. You simply enter your Offer Name – which is Love Again iPhone App US, choose direct link radio box, input the offer payout of $1.40 and set the split % to 100. Then I simple input my revived media affiliate campaign subid url specifically for that offer I setup earlier, but I make a small change – I CUTOFF THE “XX” at the end of the link and then enter it into iMobiTrax. Like This:

Now, every click that comes in, iMobiTrax will do it’s magic and track the 20+ tracking options it has to offer.

I click on Add Campaign.

Step 4 – Campaign Final Setup & Migration

Ok, we now have everything pretty much setup. Go quickly into your iMobiTrax campaign and set your minimum CPC to $0.06 like mMedia offered at the end there.

Scroll down in iMobiTrax to your Campaign Link and Tracking Pixels:

Click on test link – Yep, works correctly. Proceed. – Always test your link! Always!

I want to grab my Tracking Pixel out of iMobiTrax, copy/paste it over to my Revived Media Affiliate Postback URL option.

Note: I chop off the NETWORK TOKEN after subid= and replace it with the optional Postback URL for Server (Cookie-Less) tracking: {aff_sub}

So now my link in Revived Media looks like this:

Click on Save. You Postback has been setup correctly and will now fire conversions through your campaign tracking link. BOOYAH! Advantage over everyone not using iMobiTrax.

Now, grab your Campaign Link from iMobiTrax:

Put that link into your mMedia account and link it to any of your creatives you want to run.

Note: mMedia offers both Text ads and which look like this: (Just an example:)

Don’t under-estimate the power of text ads. Especially for mobile web or in-app advertising. A strong message with clear call to action that benefits the user is literally the most important thing I can tell you today with the current mobile advertising methods that are available. Test text ads in every country!

mMedia also allows you to upload your own custom creatives and also create a gallery in your account. Pretty useful feature for Agencies like us.

I simply attach that text banner inside mMedia with my campaign link from iMobiTrax. I then attatch my destination url (My campaign link from iMobiTrax)

Click on attach campaign. My minimum bid CPC’s stayed at $0.06. Here if they change in your mMedia account, simply go to your iMobiTrax campaign setup, input the correct CPC on the campaign and make sure to update the iMobiTrax campaign. No biggie.

In mMedia, setup your Basics, Tracking, Budgeting and Scheduling, I already told you what I’m trying to accomplish. Set your Geography. This is a US only campaign. Optimization and Targeting, it’s correctly setup – Targeting iOS, Smartphones in the US.

I’ve got my text creative attached with my correct iMobiTrax tracking link.

Save it and start it. Goes into review. Once approved – You’re off and running!

That’s just a simple direct-linked campaign with one creative type. You of course can track unlimited offers, creatives and landing pages with iMobiTrax and in 4 countries available on this offer across iOS and Androids, this market is extremely easy to produce over 1 million dollars in a month in application install commissions.

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Here at iMobiTrax, we do a lot of mobile device research. From history, makes, models, marketing names, and others, we are able to correctly match our data more precisely than other tracking solution in the Industry. In the last two decades, mobile phones have gone from an occasionally-spotted novelty to a daily necessity, changing the way we work, socialise, and organize our lives.

But how widespread is mobile usage around the world? This infographic from Lebara Mobile illustrates a visual breakdown of how 18 different countries text, chat, tweet and more. It displayss the percentage of mobile phones in each country, as well as the proportion of people who use them for calls, SMS, social networking and media planning.

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As an iMobiTrax user, you already know that among the multitude of click-tracking options we provide, two of the most used in mobile advertising campaigns are Carrier and ISP Reporting.

You see, the problem is that Carriers (also called Network Operators in other countries) employ a variety of different companies along side them, beneath them and around them. We call these DBA’s or Doing Business As Companies.

Basically, a Carrier report is excellent for the US but when you venture outside the US, the lingo, languages and everything else changes. Hence, why we added ISP reporting. Now, at the very least, you can match the Carriers up with the Internet Service Providers.

To answer one of the questions among new users, if you run a Carrier report and see *Missing* showing up in your Carrier Reports like this below:

Simply just run the same report but by ISP now and you shall see the awesome sauce:

You can see in this Australia example that Optus Mobile showed up for the majority of the clicks in this campaign, and of course running an ISP Report revealed a couple of company names for Optus. You can see we had 726 missing clicks in the Carrier Report which reveal to us the Telstra Internet ISP (this is also Telstra Carrier) As well as other company names. Which if you looked these up usually on the country + carrier website combo (sometimes you can Google them) you can match them rather quickly.

Hope it helps!

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Hey there iMobiTraxxers,

I hope all is well in your mobile-tracking campaigns. If you’re an existing user of iMobiTrax then you will be happy to know – iMobiTrax Version 3.3 is ready for download. Check your email inbox from a message from Bill that includes all the instructions you need to update your mobile ad tracking software.

For all of our lurkers out there paying attention to us, but not quite yet users of iMobiTrax, here’s some things that are new, improved, fixed and added into version 3.3 of iMobiTrax:

Always working to improve iMobiTrax, I look forward to future suggestions and feedback from all of our users here at iMobiTrax.

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One of the coolest features about iMobiTrax – is that Bill never stops working to improve our ad tracking platform. One of the coolest new features of iMobiTrax Version 3.3 is you can now redirect your incoming traffic (web & mobile) based on your top performing banners.

Here’s how…

Let’s say you were running 4 banners on mMedia. (Here’s an mMedia Campaign Setup Tutorial). You had 2 banners out-performing all four. However, you cannot cut the bad banners in real-time, or maybe your Rep isn’t available. Something happens and you need to redirect traffic right now in that campaign. You have two banners taking shits and two that are exploding. We need to make adjustment, in real-time, right now.

That’s one of the reasons we built iMobiTrax. No matter whom we buy traffic from, it can be dissected at the point of click and segmented to wherever we want that traffic to go.

Ok, so in iMobiTrax, you simply create a rule now based on your ad token. Remember when using tokens in iMobiTrax:

Source or Custom Tokens

Select “Traffic Source” if you want to use the tokens that you created when you set up the traffic source you will be using. Obviously, you must select the applicable traffic source from the drop down menu above.

Select “Custom Tokens” if you want to create/use your own tokens. These can be anything you want, including the tokens provided by a traffic source.

So it simply works one or two ways.

1. If your traffic source provides you with an ad, creative, banner token – GREAT! Simply add it into your iMobiTrax setup. You can see my example of a Leadbolt setup below, the AD IDindicates I’m tracking my ads, 1 at a time. In this screenshot, I’ve simply added custom tokens to Leadbolt because I know what I want to track from them. They actually offer more click tokens than this.

2. Again, if you have to use custom tokens, (because traffic sources may not have this banner tracking parameter) then you can do something like I do. I create a custom token labeled “ad”:

So now when I go into my redirect rules, I can select to redirect incoming mobile clicks and direct them to where-ever I need them to go. In this instance, I would be setting up a redirect rule based on my token ID Ad Id from Leadbolt:

Tokens – Enter the token value you want to redirect on. Multiple values can be used (separated by commas.) Pretty cool huh? Big time-saver! Hope it helps.

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One of the biggest problems we had when first developing iMobiTrax was getting rid of all the crappy Opera Mini and Mobi traffic. A lot of mobile ad networks have an abundance of this type of traffic. While they say that you may have the choice of targeting it, the fact is, the shit slips through here and there and some advertisers get pissed (especially mobile content billers) because the traffic is useless.

Why is Opera Mobi and Mini Traffic useless?

Well, to those who don’t know how to monetize it, it is worthless because Opera redirects through their own servers and manipulate the headers sent. It’s a lot of Geek speak, let’s just say it’s a real pain in the ass for mobile advertisers whom are not integrated to accept opera billing payments. (See Opera Exchange).

So, with that said, Bill has setup a nice little option for you to redirect Opera Mobi, Mini and all Opera Traffic in your iMobiTrax Redirect Rules Module:

In your iMobiTrax reporting, you will also notice two more options in your Click Data: Opera IP & Opera User Agent

Ruck’s Tip: Remember since you’re iMobiTrax Mobile Ad Tracker is self-hosted, your databases house all of this information that’s being reported to you. This is prime-time to sort through these options and come up with some ideas to get better at coming up with ways to scale your mobile campaigns. For instance, save all of the Opera IP’s and Opera User Agents and later on you can use your iMobiTrax Traffic Blocking and Click Filtering system to optimize and monetize Opera traffic any further.

Always Be Innovating! – Ruck

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With over 1,500+ clients and growing by the day, I think it’s safe to say we’ve made a splash in the Ad Tracking Software Industry. Don’t worry, we’ve just begun.

Today though, I want to keep it short and simple and based on the feedback from a recent survey I took with current Clients, here are 15 benefit rich reasons marketers and advertisers choose iMobiTrax as their mobile ad tracking software that powers their businesses.

1. iMobiTrax Technology Is Patent Pending – Which means we are uniquely special. Like last kid on the short bus special…

2. iMobiTrax Is 100% Self-Hosted – Your data is private and only accessible by you. If you trust others with your data, you’re a donkey.

3. iMobiTrax Tracks Web & Mobile – Built and optimized properly. Because we’re lazy and created an all-in-one ad tracking dashboard.

4. Proprietary Device Detection – Our databases contain every discontinued, active and upcoming mobile device, are updated weekly and we allow every iMobiTrax Client to send us their User-Agents on a weekly basis. (No extra charge). With over 1,500+ clients – it’s safe to say our databases are nothing short of amazing.

5. Mobile Campaign Building – Direct linking campaigns, landing pages, multi-path campaigns, mobile lead generation are just a few of the types of mobile campaigns you can track. Don’t worry, once you get inside, your creative side will take over and you’ll know why we don’t like to reveal our mobile campaign builder.

6. Real-Time Conversion Data – Not only does iMobiTrax track and report in real-time, you can also update your converting Subid’s, Cost-Per-Click, block, filter and redirect mobile traffic all from your dashboard. We don’t trust any traffic source, so we built these in to “game” the systems. Once you learn how to use these features, you’ll thank me later.

7. Optimized For Superior Speeds – iMobiTrax will run as fast as you want it to. That of course means, you have a server to handle the traffic. We run over 100 Million clicks a month on just one iMobiTrax install and we have Clients generating over 75+ million clicks a month. It’s lightning fast!

8. Collects All Data Automatically – We want to know exactly what type of traffic we are receiving, where it’s coming from, even the display size of the screen of the user who clicked on our ads along with a multitude of other granular tracking metrics that iMobiTrax automatically collects and reports including:

• IP Addresses
• GEO/Country
• Referrers
• Timestamps
• User-Agents
• Manufacturers
• Operating Systems
• Carriers/ISP’s
• Device Type (handsets, tablets, smartphones, feature phones, etc…)
• Subid’s – (Extremely simple and fast Subid updater!)
• Optins – Single or Double Optins
• Phone Numbers
• Email Addresses
• Device Models
• Device Screen Display Size
• Device Screen Resolution Size
• Network Data Speeds
• Custom Tokens (You can track on any traffic source, with any click tokens. Eg. States, Banners, Text Ads, Zipcodes etc…)

9. Unlimited Tracking Options – With iMobiTrax you have the ability to track unlimited campaigns. Direct Links, Landing Pages, Multi-Path campaigns and more.

10. Mobile Post-Click Redirects – We’ve actually innovated and now have more options to redirect your incoming traffic based on a certain set of criteria rules. Currently, you can redirect your incoming traffic by:

• Country
• Carrier
• Phone Type
• Manufacturer
• Model
• IP Address
• Referrer
• Browser Traffic
• Tokens – Redirect incoming traffic by top performing custom tokens. Eg. States, banners, text ads, zip codes etc…)

11. Allow/Disallow Wifi – Optionally choose to allow or disallow Wifi traffic. You can even redirect your Wifi traffic.

12. Allow/Disallow Opera – Optionally choose to allow or disallow Opera Mobi and Opera Mini traffic. You can redirect Opera traffic too.

13. Block & Filter Incoming Traffic – Need to block some bots, urls, or reviewers? That’s exactly why we created this but don’t talk about it much publicly. The derogative term that’s typically used is “cloaking.” Call it what you will, iMobiTrax allows you to control what you want seen and what you choose to keep hidden.

14. No Extra Fees – iMobiTrax doesn’t charge for Feature Updates, support, GEO IP Database Fees or anything else. You just need to come with your server ready!

15. Unlimited Split-Testing – Split-Testing on Steroids. You can split test offers, landing pages, multiple paths and whatever else your creative brain creates.

We’ve had hundreds of CPVLab and Prosper202 users migrate over the last few months. So if you are looking for a self-hosted, but relentlessly supported and updated ad tracking solution, give us a shout on the contact form or get off the fence and join us. Your competitors are!

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I’ll tell you something no other Mobile “expert,” “specialist” or whatever else “insert stupid name” here won’t. I’ll tell you something that all successful mobile marketers know and understand.

ROI will always come down to the EXACT Device.

It doesn’t matter which Carrier, Manufacturer or even Operating System it is as much as it matters to track specific mobile devices.

Why?

Because your advertisement, your message will and does display differently across devices. No matter how good of a designer you are for your campaigns. It’s just that simple.

We weren’t the only ones who’ve spent millions of dollars learning this and developing a tool that would automatically track these incoming mobile device data clicks. With over 1,500+ ad tracking clients here at iMobiTrax, we’ve got some clients who average 75+ Million clicks a month on their iMobiTrax installs.

So with all the money spent on testing, building and implementing new features into our mobile ad tracker, we’ve include the 10 critical mobile device data types you should be tracking on your mobile campaigns. These include:

• Manufacturers
• Device Name
• Device Model
• Manufacturer, Device Name, Device Model Combination
• Marketing Name Of The Device
• Device Type
• Operating System
• Display Size
• Screen Resolution
• Network Data Speed

iMobiTrax automatically tracks and reports every one of the device data types for you. Once someone clicks your advertisement on a mobile ad network (which is your iMobiTrax campaign link), the software will automatically record this device data and report it for you to drill down and make your optimizations.

Device Data Types are just one set of criteria you should be tracking from your mobile traffic. Check out the visual below for a complete set of tracking and reporting options that iMobiTrax will automatically record and report from each click you pay for:

Are you currently tracking this data from the traffic you are purchasing from mobile ad networks? If not, you’re competitors are!

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One of the things we don’t talk about much is the fact that iMobiTrax isn’t just a self-hosted mobile ad tracking software. It’s actually an all-in-one mobile campaign tracking dashboard which we use for every single penny we spend on traffic. Whether that’s desktop or mobile traffic.

Yesterday, I caught an incoming message from Dino Vedo (DinoVedo.com)  whom is an iMobiTrax user. I remember a few weeks ago Dino had messaged me on Facebook, expressing concerns with Prosper 202. This has been coming non-stop since we launched. The amount of people who’ve abandoned self-hosted Prosper 202 and joined us here at iMobiTrax is really quite astonishing. For everyone who can’t seem to figure it out, Prosper 202 is some really old code. It’s not supported or updated regularly and seems like the newbs trying to make Prosper add-ons and hacks spend more time tinkering with it,  than having it do what it’s suppose to do – track freaking campaigns.

Anyway, Dino was having some issues with Prosper202 and had told me a few weeks ago he was going to gear up with iMobiTrax and give us a shot.

To my surprise, Dino hit me back yesterday with a message that completely made my day:

LMAO. This is the funny part. I was expecting to see a $10K screenshot right. Dino is too modest for that…BAM:

The awesome part is that this was all desktop traffic. Dino and I actually spoke a bit more about him working with us on mobile offers with iMobiTrax, but knowing him, he’s probably got a couple of dozen hot web campaigns running right now.

That’s awesome news Dino and thanks for the shout-out! It’s Clients like this who keep us awake 100 hours a week hacking away at iMobiTrax and improving it each week.

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Remember the other day when I told you about one of our awesome iMobiTrax Clients Dino Vedo? He hit the $14,035.59 daily profit mark using iMobiTrax for tracking his Desktop campaigns. He hasn’t even used iMobiTrax as a mobile tracker yet! Ha, you just wait till you see the data we reveal about every mobile device people are using to click your ads.

Anyway, I just got some awesome news this morning! It’s 3:32 am and I got this “made my day” message from Dino an hour earlier. Dino let me know that Bill helped him with a database issue and he hit the $20,000 daily profit mark yesterday. Which since I know Dino, was actually probably more than $20,000 haha!

Out-Freaking-Standing job Dino!

That’s also one of the things about us here at iMobiTrax. Bill is actually in the Philippines while Ryan is on the East Coast and I’m in the Central US (actually boarding a plane to Las Vegas in 2 hours, that’s the reason I’m up ha!). The point is when we say around the clock support, we freaking mean it. We are set on squashing every Self-Hosted Ad tracking platform for Desktop and Mobile that’s out there. Which, come to think of it, none come to mind.

You get the point though.

Update: I just saw a great comment from another user utilizing iMobiTrax as their Ad Tracker of choice for Desktop traffic. The answer to your question is yes there is a way to do it, I’ll send you an email because this isn’t really something we want to discuss publicly. This feature is a “hush-hush” for iMobiTrax Clients, so I will answer you ASAP Bro.

Still working with behind the times trackers like CPV Lab or Prosper 202? Give us a shot for your Ad Tracking solutions, I guarantee you won’t go back.

As demand for our Self-Hosted SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) has risen exponentially over the last 60 days, we are planning to raise our monthly price for new Client users of iMobiTrax when return from the Affiliate Summit around August 20th. So if you snooze, you lose! Get iMobiTrax today and start tracking with the #1 rated Mobile Ad Tracker and quickly becoming a Marketer’s favorite – Desktop Ad tracker too!

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Ryan and I just returned from representing iMobiTrax Ad Tracking at the Affiliate Summit East Conference and was surprised to find a nice forum post in the IMGrind Private Forums from one of our awesome iMobiTrax Clients.

What’s even cooler is that Bradley is using iMobiTrax for all of his tracking needs. Take a look at this message from Bradley. He’s tracking MUCH more than just mobile traffic.

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Here’s another great Client Alex with some positive feedback and to answer your question Alex, Bill has inputted this feature at your request and will be in there in the upcoming update. (Few days).

And more

From the guys here at iMobiTrax, we thank each and every one of our clients for all of your feature requests, suggestions and feedback. Together now with 1,600+ iMobiTrax Clients we hope to build the most efficient and innovative self-hosted ad tracking solutions for marketers and advertisers.

Are you saving money, time and resources with your current desktop and mobile campaign tracking solution? If not, maybe it’s time you got serious and hopped off the fence and joined us.

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With the upcoming launch of iMobiTrax Version 3.4 coming out, I wanted to shoot our 1,600+ iMobiTrax Desktop and Mobile Ad Tracking Clients a glimpse at the new traffic blocking features.

By request, our users wanted a simplifed way to block traffic, redirect traffic, hide their referrers and some other creative (link masking) strategies. For the most part, this feature was brought in by our massive migrated users over from CPV Lab for running their web campaigns.

After seeing some of the success from our users that are using iMobiTrax for all their campaigns:

We obliged the request and Bill has cooked up a nice feature for you while building out your campaigns. Now, you can save time, money and resources setting up granular redirect, traffic and referring blocking and blanking.

Now for all you newbie marketers and advertiser joining us here, Bill has made a little traffic blocking and filtering option help guide.

You can now test your campaign links right their in your campaign setup to make sure you are blanking your referrer or blocking the major Spiders and bots that are out there.

Just some new sneaky Ninja options mainly for Desktop Campaigns. As always, we highly recommend using the least amount of possible redirects as you need to within your campaigns. Redirects slow down load times PERIOD. No matter what anyone tells you. But, for our growing Client list of Desktop Tracking users that are coming into iMobiTrax, we decided it was time to simplify this for you so you can concentrate on what’s important – Building, Tracking, Optimizing and Scaling more campaigns.

iMobiTrax is Self-Hosted and our ideal Clients are typically the larger volume type guys ranging from 5,000 clicks a day to over 100 Million clicks a month on a single install. With Self-Hosted Software – SECURITY is #1. After all, who wants to work their ass off only to have their campaigns ripped out from under them? Now, at your request, you can hide all your campaigns, direct links, offers, landing pages, multiple path campaigns – basically whatever campaign type you build, you will control who sees what. Enjoy!

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