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remember “the turtle flies at night”
…..shhhh

Tracking202, which is quiet possibly the single most important tool any affiliate marketer can have in their arsenal, just announced yesterday that they were starting to take applications for the new Tracking202 Pro Private Beta Program. While enrolled in this trial, all fees associated with the application will be waived with the exception of any API calls. Once the private beta is over the service will switch over to being a paid analytics program….the first that the company has ever offered.

Up until now all Prosper202 applications have been completely free of charge. These include:

• Tracking202 – A great link analytics program to help you map trends, ctr, and much more.
• Export202 – A utility to convert PPC campaigns from one advertising network to another (i.e Google->MSN).
• WorldProxy202 – A great service that offers free international proxies in Canada, USA, Australia and the UK. This was always great for checking how your ads would appear to the international search markets.
• Meetup202 – An event/user group planning system allowing you to create, manage, and track gatherings.

It should be interesting to see what new features this Pro version has, something to note though is that there will not be a self-hosted version this time. Tracking202 Pro will be only sold through their subscription service. I don’t know how well this will go over with the AM crowd as the biggest fear in using any subscription service is that someone will steal ideas, LP’s, strategies, etc.. All of which are visible through this tracking application.

So apparently some genius thought he could make some quick cash by combining affiliate links from Incentaclick/CX Digital and bit-torrent. There’s only one catch…..it resulted in a massive DDOS attack on the incentaclick servers, knocking them offline for practically all day. Needless to say, some people were pissed (shit, I don’t even want to think about all folks who just lost big $$ due to their PPC links being dead). Rumor going around on #cakes (irc.freenode.com – don’t be a stranger) is that it’s more than just their servers that were hit, the ping attack took-out part of their entire network. If that’s the case then don’t plan on switching back to your incentaclick links anytime soon… such a shame.

Brilliant work kid!