http://www.yoursite1.com
http://www.yoursite2.com
http://www.yoursite.com (with a bit of a twist)

You might find that this sites actually exists, however, for the purpose of this tutorial we will assume that these sites are fictional.

You might often find yourself in a situation where you are only allowed to give one website to promote, but you actually want to promote more than one. An example would be a traffic exchange. Rather than accepting your fate and choosing the site you would most like to promote, you can now promote all of your sites through your URL rotator. When asked for the address of the site you want to promote, you just give the address of your URL rotator

The first screen you will see when you click on the "My Rotator" menu item is your rotator statistics screen which may look very similar to the image below.

Notice the red circle in the image above? This is your URL rotator address. When somebody follows this link, our system will randomly select one of the sites or addresses in your rotator and redirect visitors to it. The yellow circle just above the red one is where you would click to add an address or a website to your rotator. When you click on one this hyperlink, you will come to  a screen similar to the image below. The only difference is that the form will not yet be filled in.

In the top textbox you will enter the url or website address you want added to your rotator. In the second text box you need to add a name or description that will let you know which site you are referring to. Notice the drop-down-box in the yellow circle? When you click on the drop-down arrow, you will notice that you can choose any number from 1 to 10. If you want certain sites or addresses in your rotator to be displayed more often than others, you can do so by giving it a higher priority or weight.

For example, if you have 2 sites in your rotater, site one with a priority of 1 (the default) and site 2 with a priority of 2 and your rotator link is followed 100 times then site 1 would have been  displayed approximately 33 times and site two 67 times. Using the same example with site 1 on a priority of 1 and site 2 on a priority of 9, after your rotator link has been followed 100 times, site 1 would have been  displayed approximately 10 times and site two 90 times.

Let's say we add two more sites to your rotator, using the addresses we mentioned at the beginning of this tutorial, if you now go back to your main URL Rotator statistics screen, it might look similar to the image below:

The first thing you might notice here is the third entry which is underlined in red in the image above. Do you see what we have done here? Rather than just using the normal website address, we used a tracking link with the keyword "rotator" appended. (See creating and managing campaigns)  This allows you to see how many times a site for which you created a tracking campaign was followed.

In conclusion, clicking on the blue letters, R, E and D next to each entry will allow you to set its hit-count back to zero, change the address or title for the specified entry or change its priority and lastly, delete the entry if you no longer want it to be one of the sites in your rotator. You may also reset all entries with one click or delete all entries with one click by clicking on "Reset All" or "Delete All"

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