However, you may look into isapi rewrite to accomplish the same thing. It is designed to work on IIS servers and you can get more detailed information about isapi rewrite by visiting http://www.isapirewrite.com/.

I believe this should do the trick.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Pretty much like the first example, but in line 1 we remove the “!” (respresents NOT and meant the url did not start with www, but now we are rewriting if it does start with www), and in the second line we leave the www out of the RewriteRule.

Again, remember to replace domain.com in the example above with your domain name.

Then what would the code look like?

Travis

I did see the tokens and how they are used - yep, just like Speed-PPC. And you’re absolutely correct that you can create a unique url for each keyword. But this is not an issue with tokens, it’s an issue with pairing - a feature available in SpeedPPC but not in PPC-max. The problem is that datafeed landing pages aren’t based on the tokens (seed, expansion, final), but rather on a unique product identifier as I stated previously. I tried several options in PPC-Max, but can’t pair up a keyword with an existing url that is defined by a value not associated directly with the seed or expansion word. Hope that made sense, and if I missed something, please correct me.

I do have a question about PPC-Max. What types of errors did it find and help you correct? When I was trying to find a way to pair a keyword with an existing url, PPC-Max would return destination URLs in invalid syntax (all the punctuation was stripped out of the URL, such as “//:”, “?” and “&”) but never did it flag that as an error.

My guess is each program will appeal to a specific type of user (kind of like the Windows, Linux, Mac debate - they’re all good in their own right - it just depends on what the end user wants and needs). Still, Speed PPC seems at this point to be the better option in my situation. Oh, SpeedPPC also offers a nice member forum where paid users get good response to support issues, insight into Quality Score, and very active users who offer a lot of good tips and advice. PPC-Max should probably consider a similar service to boost it’s offer.

I have a copy of speedppc, but just out of curiosity I just signed up for the $30 service from ppc-max earlier today. ppc-max does provide the capacity for datafeeds - right in the middle of the project creation page it explains the token usage fields. I have created several campaigns with it adding my speedppc tokens, and it works flawlessly with my existing speedppc landing pages. ppc-max paired my datafeed tokens the same as speedppc; one unique URL per keyword. Inputting the data from a couple of my other existing speedppc created campaigns, ppc-max actually found several errors that speedppc didn’t tell me about when I created the same campaigns with speedppc. It automatically fixed the errors and now those campaigns are drawing almost double the CTR. I am going to re-run the rest of my speedppc created campaigns with ppc-max tomorrow and see what other errors turn up. If it finds and fixes any errors in those, I will be quite a bit ahead this month.

I totally agree with you on the price Travis. It sounds like speedppc would probably be more cost effective for simultaneously creating the campaigns for several hundred adwords accounts from the ground up.

Thanks for the info on a decent alternative. After a quick look though, PPC Max is missing some crucial features, and the $30 mentioned in your post isn’t really the full story - the $30 is for the lowest level of service, limited use, and it’s a monthly charge. The fee for SpeedPPC is a one time fee and includes unlimited uses and projects. If you don’t plan on using it for more than a few of your own projects and won’t need to use it consistently over a long period of time, ppc max might be a good alternative. I am adding new projects and work with multiple clients, so, in the long run, the cost of PPC Max would probably far exceed the cost I paid for Speed PPC.

Also, PPC-Max is missing a feature critical for me, and most affiliates who utilize datafeeds, and that is the capability to pair each keyword with a specific url. The landing pages aren’t always determined by the keyword or seed term, but most often are defined by a product id, upc, or sku number. I saw nothing in PPC Max to address this - Speed PPC handles keyword, url pairing very well. Even more, SpeedPPC makes available some additional utilities that are very beneficial to affiliates that utilize datafeeds.

Now I’m not knocking PPC Max - it appears it can be a good, low cost alternative for PPC advertisers with less demanding needs who will give it limited use. I would DISAGREE that “It’s too bad (I) already shelled out half-a-grand”. The better features and lower long term cost of SpeedPPC more closely meet my requirements and is more economical based on my projected usage.

I just signed up with PPC-Max at http://instant.ppc-max.com about 20 minutes ago and created all of my campaigns for less than $30. It’s too bad you already shelled out half-a-grand.