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ATS PRO Traffic Manager the short illustrated manual
1. How to run a TGP with ATS PRO easier


ATS PRO Traffic Manager the complete user's manual
2. What ATS PRO is, what it is used for, system requirements

3. How ATS PRO works

  • force traffic

  • trade type

  • spots

  • click-again


  • 4. ATS PRO Setup

  • automatic

  • manual

  • template setup

  • cronjobs setup


  • 5. Upgrade from previous versions

    6. Trades' personal settings (main section Trades)

  • approved terms

  • system trades

  • status of the trade

  • adding a trade (Add)

  • updating a trade (Edit)

  • stats deletion (Reset)

  • trade deletion (Delete)

  • marking a trade ((Un)Mark)

  • absolute priority for a trade (Turbo on/off)

  • disabling a trade (Enable/Disable)

  • checking HTML source of the trade's page (Check Source)

  • stats for the last 24 hours (Stats)

  • log viewing (Ref/IP Log)

  • incoming log analysing (Analyse)


  • 7. Trade groups (section Groups)

  • how it works

  • adding a group

  • updationg a group

  • deletion of a group


  • 8. Toplist management (section Toplists)

  • how it works

  • adding a toplist

  • updating a toplist

  • deletion of a toplist


  • 9. Blacklist management (section Blacklist)

  • how it works

  • adding a trade

  • updating a trade

  • deletion of a trade


  • 10. Common settings (section Settings)

  • subsection Site Info

  • subsection Trade Settings

  • subsection Trade Rules

  • subsection Skim

  • subsection Geography

  • subsection Redirect

  • subsection Checker

  • subsection Anticheat

  • subsection Interface

  • subsection Other


  • 11. Outgoing traffic analyser (section LTracking)

  • dispersion of clicks

  • subsection Languages

  • subsection Countries

  • subsection Proxy

  • subsection IP

  • subsection Browser

  • subsection OS


  • 12. Template management (section Templates)

  • basic principles of template rotation

  • adding a template

  • updating a template

  • deletion of a template

  • renewal of a template


  • 13. Backup management (section Backup)

  • creation of a backup

  • data restore

  • backup removal

  • autmatic backup

  • moving a site to another host using a backup


  • 14. Multisite stats (section Multi)

  • approved terms

  • adding a site

  • updating a site

  • deletion of a site


  • 15. Page webmaster.php

    How to run a TGP with ATS PRO easier:
    1. Be sure you got a virtual or dedicated host with PHP 4.2+ (safe modemust be off), cronjobs, GEO IP, GD 2.0+, usually such host is paid, average price $0.3-0.5/Gbyte of outgoing traffic, average thumb TGP requires 0.3-0.5 Gbytes per 1000 visitors;
    2. Download the archive with ATS PRO, the latest version can be found here http://www.ats-project.com/download.html;
    3. Be sure, you got an FTP-client software and you are familiar with that, if no go here Cute FTP or here WS FTP and get one;
    4. Using your FTP-client connect to your host;
    5. Set to the root directory (it is usually /public_html, /htdocs, /domain.com) permissions (Chmod) 777;
    6. Unpack ATS PRO archive to a directory on your local machine (you must have a ZIP or RAR archiver software) and upload all the PHP files to the root directory on your host in binary mode (force this mode in your FTP-client);
    7. Open your web browser (MS IE is recommended) and go to the URL http://www.yoursite.com/setup.php, instead of yoursite.com you must enter your domain, you should see a picture like this:


    8. Set all the fields in the form as you wish and press Create CJ button, you must see the picture same as below (if everything is OK):


    9. You must remove the file setup.php from your root directory to prevent attacks from hackers;
    10. Then forget about FTP-client for you ATS PRO copy, all other management can be done from admin panel, so go there http://www.yoursite.com/admin.php, enter password specified during the setup;


    11. The main page of your admin panel with trades should look like:


    12. But before adding trades you should check the settings and correct them if needed, so go to the Settings section;


    13. Most of settings can be as default but you need to take a look at:
    - Category (niche) of your site (Category selector), by default only Amateur is chosen but perhaps you need something else, also you can select as many categories as you like for one site;
    - amount of links on your site to track clicks (Positions to use) sets the maximum of used positions for thumbs/text links on your site, don't set much more than really needed to make you admin panel faster;
    14. Then go to Trade Settings, everithing can be left by default, then after you got some experience you probably want to change something;


    15. Then go to Trade rules, here you can write the rules what other webmasters must read and agree before trading with you;


    16. In the ATS PRO 1.7 the section Skim is significant, here you must specify which percent of your outgoing traffic goes to trade and which goes to content, aslo specify whether you want to use automatic skim tuning or not;


    16. Then go to Geography subsection, here you must select the most preferable countries/visitor languages for your website (usually US and Westrn Europe must be chosen);


    17. All other subsections from section Settings are recommended to keep by default, later you can change something there when you become the experienced user.
    Attention! After any change you must press Update Settings or the change won't be saved;
    18. Then you must edit a template so go to Templates section, there is only one template {default_1} which you have to edit (for most of TGP sites one template is enough);
    19. Select it and press Edit, then a new window with HTML source of the page will be opened. You can change it as you like or as your content manager requires;


    20. You can copy the HTML code to your favorite HTML editor but you can edit it in that window if you like, also you can go here and here for instructions;
    21. After editing you must press Edit template, the HTML code of your template will be saved;
    22. After updating your template perhaps you need to edit a toplist so go to the Toplists section;


    23. Here you must set Range begin - Range end as ##name##, ##url## and other special toplist tags in your template is chosen (for example, toplist with Range begin 1 and Range end 5 will update an html code with tags ##name1##...##name5##), then select the parameter which toplist will be sorted by and toplist category (niche) if you run a miltiniche site;
    24. Then set up cronjobs, ATS PRO 1.7 requires just one cron but it must run every minute so write in crontab (using your host admin panel or ssh) this command:
    * * * * * cd /home/account-name/public_html/site-name; /usr/bin/php tmcron.php 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null if you can't do it by yourself ask you host admin for help;
    25. If you cron is setup correctly it will make a page http://yoursite.com with some text or content you entered in Templates section in an hour;
    26. Now your site is working and you can add new trades;
    27. If the setup of ATS PRO looks too sophisticated perhaps you must try an easier script;

    2. What ATS PRO is, what it is used for, system requirements
  • Written in PHP encoded with Zend EncoderTM

  • Doesn't use MySQL, any other SQL database or text files for stats.

  • Binary database specially developed for ATS PRO is very stable and fast allows to continue trade even if a part of data is lost.

  • Easy setup and run in minutes, you just need a host with PHP 4.2 (safe mode off) and higher, Zend OptimizerTM, GD 2.0 and higher, sockets, sessions, cronjobs (any paid shared or dedicated host has these features by default), ATS PRO doesn't need ssh access like other scripts written in C, you just need FTP to setup it.

  • ATS PRO v.1.6+ has no content management features it is only traffic manager and must work with an external content management system.

  • ATS PRO takes only 1% of your clicks to trade as payment, this traffic is sent to clean sites only without any pop-ups, dialers and other shit. Also no-skim version can be bought. The price for the first copy is $195 for each domain, the second one is $145 and all others are $95 each.

  • ATS PRO v.1.6+ is a solution for experienced webmasters, for beginners we suggest to run something easier.


  • 3. How ATS PRO works
  • ATS PRO finds the most effective trades using last 23 plus this hour stats, they get traffic first. The effectiveness means many things: amount of traffic, quality, productivity, intraday changes.

  • ATS PRO sends only unique hits, if a visitor has clicked through all the trades he goes to exout, the Exout URL can be specified in Trade Settings.

  • There is no selection "by force trade" or "by ratio trade", always counted forces and ratio.

  • Not only effectiveness determines th return but Ratio as well, ATS PRO can change Ratio dinamicly according to the traffic quality, which depends on proxy and undesireble countries percent, cookie, graphics and javascript support by visitors' browsers, the limits of changes can be set in Trade Settings section by Good traffic and Bad traffic Ratio settings.

  • force traffic
    Forces can be used to send visitors to trades in addiditon to the rating determined by Ratio and visitors sent from trades. In version 1.7 forces can be limited by a number of hours and permanent as well.
    Also forces can be Normal or Free, free forces is a kind of premium for the trade, it is not taken into account when the trade's rating is calculated.
    Force priority is a variable which determines from which click the force is working, so you can set whether you like to send high quality first clicks as forces or low quality last clicks.
    Forces in v.1.7 have also significance parameter (Settings - Trade Settings - Force Significance) and if you set high significance (up to 100%) the forced trade gets traffic faster than another effective trade.
    Turboforce has the highest priority and if you set Turboforce to the trade it gets traffic first.
    trade type
    Normal means the thade still gets traffic despite the Ratio is over, Capped limits the return by the Ratio.
    spots
    Spots are the trades can get the first click with a probability according to its rating. By default spots is off and the first click is always going to the most efective trade.
    click again
    Click again supposes that one saved visitor is equal to a new visitor sent to the site. So if after visiting a trade the visitor is still on you site, you can account a click-again to that trade. You can turn on this mode in Trade Settings.

    4. Setup
    Automatic
    1. Set to the root directory (it is usually /public_html, /htdocs, /domain.com) permissions (Chmod) 777;
    2. Upload all the PHP files from the archive to the root directory on your host in binary mode;
    3. Run setup.php with your web browser so go to the URL http://yoursite.com/setup.php;
    4. Fill all the fields in the form as you need and press Create CJ button. 5. If everything is OK edit index.php (it is created during the installation) as your content manager requires;
    6. Go to section Templates in your admin panel, edit default template, add more templates if needed;
    7. Delete setup.php, set to the root directory permissions (Chmod) 755;

    Manual setup (if you can't set permissions 777 to the root directory)
    1. Upload all the PHP files from the archive to the root directory on your host in binary mode;
    2. Create these directories:
    /backupfiles
    /datafiles
    /ipfiles
    /logfiles
    /settings
    /styles
    /temp
    /templates
    /tradefiles
    and set permissions 777 to them;
    3. Run setup.php with your web browser so go to the URL http://yoursite.com/setup.php;
    4. Fill all the fields in the form as you need and press Create CJ button.
    5. If everything is OK edit index.php (it is created during the installation) as your content manager requires;
    6. Go to section Templates in your admin panel, edit default template, add more templates if needed;
    7. Delete setup.php;

    Templates setup
    Default template which exists after the installation must be updated anyway so go to the admin panel to the section Templates, select default_1 (it must be the only), press Edit. See more about it here.
    There is the HTML code of your default template in opened window, you can copy it to your favorite HTML editor. Every hour ATS PRO will make a main page of your site from this template so you must place here all or part of its HTML code. You can place here a toplist code which will be renewed once per hour, you can use these special tags for it:
    ##nameXX## - site name;
    ##descXX## - site description;
    ##bnrXX## - banner URL;
    ##urlXX## - direct URL (out.php?t=trade.com);
    ##rurlXX## - real URL (http://trade.com);
    ##tradeXX## - domain (trade.com);
    ##inXX## - amount of unique hits from trade;
    ##outXX## - amount of hits sent out to trade;
    ##clkXX## - amount of clicks made by visitors from trade;
    ##prodXX## - productivity of trade's traffic in percent.

    To send traffic to your trades you must place on your main page some blind links. It can be text links or graphics. All the traffic must go through out.php so the typical link must looks like: <a href="out.php" target="_blank">. Traffic sent through this link goes only to trades but you can change the target using these parameters:
    u (url), p (percent), f (first), t (trade), c (content), g (group), n (niche), l (link), o (object)
    Examples:
    - Normal: 'out.php'
    - To URL: 'out.php?p=100&u=http://www.url.com' or 'out.php?u=http://www.url.com' and set in section Settings subsection Skim "Actual skim: 100"
    - 70% to URL: 'out.php?p=70&u=http://www.url.com' or 'out.php?u=http://www.url.com' and set in section Settings subsection Skim "Actual skim: 70"
    - First click to URL: 'out.php?f=1&u=http://www.url.com' or 'out.php?u=http://www.url.com' and set in section Settings subsection Skim "First clicks: 1"
    - First 3 clicks to URL: 'out.php?f=3&u=http://www.url.com' or 'out.php?u=http://www.url.com' and set in section Settings subsection Skim "First clicks: 3"
    - First click to URL, second to trade, 3d and 4th to URL: 'out.php?u=http://www.url.com' and set in section Settings subsection Skim "First clicks: ctcc"
    - To the trade: 'out.php?t=trade.com'
    - Group mark: (for multiniche sites) 'out.php?g=GROUP_INDEX'
    - Sending hits to gallery URLs by object ID: 'out.php?o=1001ad'
    - Link tracking: 'out.php?l=thumb' for graphics (thumbs)
    - Link tracking: 'out.php?l=desc' for text links (descriptions)
    - Link tracking: 'out.php?l=blind' for any blind links
    - Link tracking: 'out.php?l=hidden' for hidden links
    - Link tracking: 'out.php?l=toplist' for toplist
    - Link tracking: 'out.php?l=p0...p3999' for any links you need to track

    Cronjobs setup
    For stats updating and some other calculations you must setup a crontab it is a kind of time table. It is easy, you just need to write in crontab by ssh or you host admin panel a command string like that:
    * * * * * cd /home/account-name/public_html/site-name; /usr/bin/php tmcron.php 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
    This command consists of 3 parts:
    - time to run {* * * * *} or {*/1 * * * *}, which means every minute;
    - working directory change to the directory where php files of ATS PRO located {for example, cd /home/account-name/public_html/site-name;}
    - run tmcron.php with PHP {/usr/bin/php tmcron.php 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null} or {/usr/local/bin/php tmcron.php 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null};
    Syntax can be different, if there is Direct Admin panel, time to run must be writen {0-59 * * * *} instead of {* * * * *}, cPanel requires {* * * * *}.
    Path to PHP can also be different. To find out the correct path to PHP in your system use ssh command whereis php or just ask your host admin.
    Path to ATS PRO files will be different for each server, the easiest way to find it out - upload a file info.php with the code to your host and open it with browser by typing http://www.yoursite.com/info.php


    5. Upgrade from previous versions
    To upgrade from version 1.5.4 to 1.5.7 or from version 1.6.2 to 1.6.3 just replace PHP files on server but if you want to change the core (for example from 1.5.7 to 1.6) you must do that:
    1. Create backup;
    2. Delete all the directories except /backupfiles, set permissions (chmod) 777 to the root directory;
    3. Install a new version;
    4. Delete setup.php, set permissions 755 to the root directory;
    5. Go to admin panel section Backup and restore database;
    6. Check and update settings, because it can't be restored from backup.

    6. Trades' personal settings (main section Trades)


    Approved terms
    D/Q - trade's rating - the main parameter which ATS PRO uses to decide where the next hit must go;
    rIn - Raw In - amount of visits from trade;
    uIn - Unique In - amount of unique visits from trade;
    Out - Sent Out to Trade - amount of hits sent out to trade;
    FH - Free Hits to Trade - amount of free hits sent out to trade;
    Clk - Counted Clicks - amount of counted clicks made by visitors from trade;
    NCC - Not Counted Clicks - amount of not counted clicks made by visitors from trade;
    Prod - Productivity - counted productivity in percent (Clk/rIn);
    CL - % of Non-accepted countries/laguages - percent of clicks rejected by geography filter;
    PX - % of Proxies - percent of clicks rejected by proxy filter;
    NJ - % of No JavaScript clicks - percent of clicks with disabled JavaScript in browser (5-10% is OK);
    NG - % of No Graphics clicks - percent of clicks don't support graphics in browser (usually bots);
    - % of No Cookie clicks - percent of clicks don't support cookie in browser (usually bots);
    CA - Click-Again Factor - percent of visitors which came back and made as low as one click after being sent to the trade;
    Bal - Balance (Actual ratio) - Outgoing traffic to Raw Ins ratio;
    Ratio - Weighted Average Ratio - Clicks to Outs ratio;
    Dev - Deviation - the anticheat feature, the lower the better, 200 means the trade's visitors behaviour is completely different from others, 0 means the behaviour is inline with others;
    IPh - IP Reiteration - the anti-botnet feature, the lower the better, 100 means visitors' IPs today are completely the same as some days before;
    Group - Group - the trade's group;
    TType - Trade Type - trade type, Normal allow to send traffic over the ratio, Capped limits the return by the ratio;
    Force - Force - the trade's force settings (hourly force/priority/time left(in hours) or permanent/force type);
    ICQ - ICQ - the trade's ICQ status.

    System trades
    There are 4 system trades:
    Bookmarks - all the traffic came not from trades and SEs such as noref, notrade ..., in bookmarks' out it shows exout hits sent;
    Search Engines - all the traffic from search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN;
    Hit Exchange - ATS PRO's skim (~1%) to the hit exchange system, hits are taken only by free version of the script (Trial Unlimited);
    Direct out - unknown clicks, direct out.php hit usually.

    Trade's status
    1. Enabled - normal status, trade by ratio and by force if set, no highlighting;
    2. Disabled - trade stopped, no clicks except direct (out.php?t=disabled-trade.com) goes to the trade, dark blue highlighting;
    3. Autodisabled - trade stopped, but will be restored if at least 1 unique hit comes from the trade, blue highlighting;
    4. New - trade stopped, but begins if Start minimum of unique hits comes, rose highlighting;
    5. Added - new trade which sent Start minimum of unique hits, same as Enabled but the trade isn't included in toplist, light green highlighting;
    6. Marked - marked trade, same as Enabled but the trade never goes to Autodisable mode, red highlighting;
    7. Turbo - absolute priority, the trade gets traffic first, green highlighting;
    Trades with New, Disabled, Autodisabled and Added status are not included in toplist.

    Adding a trade (Add)
    On the main page of admin panel press Add then the form will be open.


    Site URL - location of trade's site;
    Site name - name of trade's site (for toplists);
    Password - trade's password (to login to watch stats);
    E-mail - trade's e-mail;
    ICQ - trade's ICQ UIN;
    Description - description of trade's site (for toplists);
    Banner URL - URL of trade's banner (for toplists);
    Group - the trade's group;
    Good traffic ratio - ratio (return multiplier) for the good traffic;
    Bad traffic ratio - ratio for the bad traffic;
    Hourly Force - maximum number of hits which the trade gets not depending on its effectiveness;
    Priority - priority of forces.

    Force limit - limit of return in hits/hour;
    Status - trade's status;
    Trade Type - trade type, Normal allow to send traffic over the ratio, Capped limits the return by the ratio;
    Force Type - force type, Normal means that forces sent to the trade decrease its rating, free forces are not included in rating calculation it is a ind of bonus;
    Force Time - number of hours while force is set, Permanent means force will never be expired;
    Turbo force - enable or disable turbo mode;
    Skim - trade's personal skim, set Auto if personal skim is not needed;

    Updating a trade (Edit)
    On the main page of admin panel select a trade (trades) and press Edit then the form will be open.


    The form is the same as the trade's adding form. If you want to edit many trades together some forms such as Site URL, Password... will be disabled;

    Stats deletion (Reset)
    On the main page of admin panel select a trade (trades) and press Reset then the confirmation form will be open.


    Trade deletion (Delete)
    On the main page of admin panel select a trade (trades) and press Delete then the confirmation form will be open.


    Marking a trade ((Un)Mark)
    On the main page of admin panel select a trade (trades) and press (Un)Mark then the window with a status changing message will be open.


    Absolute priority for a trade (Turbo on/off)
    On the main page of admin panel select a trade (trades) and press Turbo on/off then the window with a status changing message will be open.


    Disabling a trade (Enable/Disable)
    On the main page of admin panel select a trade (trades) and press Enable/Disable then the window with a status changing message will be open.


    Checking HTML source of a trade (Check Source)
    On the main page of admin panel select a trade (trades) and press Check Source then the window with the results of checking will be open.


    24 hours stats (Stats)
    On the main page of admin panel select a trade (trades) and press Stats then the window with 24 hours stats will be open.


    Log viewing (Ref/IP Log)
    On the main page of admin panel select a trade (trades) and press Ref/IP Log then the window with log will be open.


    Incoming log analysing (Analyse)
    On the main page of admin panel select a trade (trades) and press Analyse then the window with the results of analysing will be open.


    6. Trade Groups (section Groups)


    How it works
    Trade groups are available form version 1.7. It can make a few different TGPs at one site and one script.
    Traffic within trade groups will never be mixed. You can show different pages to visitors from diferent groups but you can use one for all.
    After setup there is only one group called default with index 0, where all the system trades belong.
    Adding a group
    If you need more than one group go to the section Groups and press Add. In opened form there are the fields:
    Group name - name of the group, which is the ID for you;
    Category - category (niche), select from the list;
    Group index - the system ID of the group will be specified automatically.
    After filling the form press Add Group, the new group is setup, please remember the Index, it is needed to setup a group's template.

    Updating a group
    Go to section Groups, select a group and press Edit. The form same as Add form will be opened with parameters of the selected group.
    After changing these parameters press Update Group, the group is updated.

    Deletion of a group
    Go to section Groups, select a group and press Delete. The confirmation form will be opened.
    Press Delete Group, the group is deleted, trades of the group can be moved to the group default or deleted as well.

    7. Toplists management (section Toplists)


    How it works
    Toplists in version 1.6+ are smarter than before, they can be sorted by unique hits, by clicks, by outs and even by productivity. Also you can make group toplist including trades with defined group only.
    But setup now is not so easy, at first you must make a toplist template. Then go to section Toplists and create a virtual module specifying the rules of the template processing.
    Adding a toplist
    After creation a template go to section Toplists and press Add. In opened form there are the fields:
    Toplist name - ID of the virtual module, there must be no space characters;
    Range begin - the start position in the template where this module must replace code, must be the same as the first tag ##name## and other toplist tags in the toplist template;
    Range end - the end position in the template where this module must replace code, must be the same as the last tag ##name## and other toplist tags in the toplist template;
    Sort by - the way of sorting (Unique Hits, Hits Out, Clicks, Productivity);
    Group - trade group traddes from where will be sorted by the toplist, if you want to sort all the trades - set All.
    After filling the form press Add Toplist, the toplist is setup.

    Editing a toplist
    Go to section Toplists, select a toplist and press Edit. The form same as Add form will be opened with parameters of the selected toplist.
    After changing these parameters press Update Toplist, the toplist is updated.

    Deletion a toplist
    Go to section Toplists, select a toplist and press Delete. The confirmation form will be opened.
    Press Delete Toplist, the toplist is deleted, the part of toplist template matching for this module won't be processing .

    8. Blacklist management (section Blacklist)


    How it works
    Some trade can be not only deleted from trade list but also added to the blacklist to prevent a new sign up, so check the chekbox Add to Blacklist when deleting it.
    Blacklist doesn't allow a new sign up with blacklisted URL or e-mail.

    Adding a trade to blacklist
    Also you can add to blacklist any trade you want to prevent sign up. Go to section Blacklist and press Add. In opened form there are the fields:
    Trade ID (Domain) - domain of the trade (trade.com) you want to add (must be filled);
    E-mail - e-mail of the trade;
    ICQ - ICQ UIN of the trade;
    Reason - a reason to add to blacklist.

    Editing a trade in blacklist
    After adding a trade to blacklist it can be edited at any time. So go to the section Blacklist select a trade and press Edit. The form same as Add form will be opened with parameters of the selected blacklisted trade.
    After changing these parameters press Update Trade, blacklist is updated.

    Deletion a trade from blacklist
    Go to the section Blacklist select a trade and press Delete. The confirmation form will be opened.
    Press Delete Trade, the trade is deleted from the blacklist and can be added to trade again, you can also remove it from .htaccess by checking the appropriate checkbox.

    9. Main Settings (section Settings)

    Subsection Site Info


    Site name - name of this site;
    Site URL - location of this site;
    Admin's e-mail - e-mail of this site owner;
    Admin's ICQ - ICQ UIN of this site owner;
    Positions to use - how many links on this site you need to track;
    Username - username to login to admin panel;
    Password - password to login to admin panel, can be encrypted by selecting Secured;
    Category selector - the tool to select the main category (niche) of the site.

    Subsection Trade Settings


    Good Traffic Ratio - ratio (return multiplier) for good quality traffic, should be 1.4-2.0;
    Bad Traffic Ratio - ratio for poor quality traffic, рекомендуется 0.1-0.5;
    Direct out URL - URL where to send direct out.php hits;
    Exout URL - URL where to send visitors who has already visited all the trades;
    Counted clicks - amount of clicks of the unique visitor to count, should be 10-15;
    Start minimum - how many visitors must sent a trade to start recieving traffic;
    Force limit - default limit of return for new trades (hits/hour);
    Click Again - take into account click again factor or not;
    Dinamic Bonus - additional bonus for the trades that are ready to rise trade volumes fast;
    Prod Bonus - additional bonus to high-productive trades;
    Spots - number of trades that can get the first and most productive clicks according to their rating;
    Track by - mode of geography filter (country or browser language);
    Force Significance - the probability for a click to go according to the forces but not to the rating;
    Default status - status for new trades to add from page webmaster.php;
    Banned code protect - a tool to prevent sign up of trades that have banned HTML on their pages;
    Banned Link - specifys a link to block IP of the clicker;
    Multipage Raw Ins count - count non-unique hits when a visitor changes the page of the site or not if there are many pages;
    Autodisable - disables non-active trades to increase speed of outgoing hits processing;
    Send e-mail on New Trader Sign Up - send an e-mail when a new trade added from the page webmaster.php or not;
    Trade ID - accept traffic by a link like this http://www.site.com/?id=trade.com to define a trade or use only referrers;
    New trade's group - the group every new self-added trade must belong;
    New trade's skim - skim for the new trades;

    Subsection Trade Rules


    Trade Rules - specify the rules that other webmasters must follow to exchange traffic with this site, it will be palced on webmaster.php, you can use HTML.

    Subsection Geography


    Countries - country selector, select from what countries you want to recieve visitors;
    Languages - language selector, select with which language you want to recieve visitors.
    After you finish to select countries and languages press Update Settings to save it.

    Subsection Redirect


    Traffic - traffic type to be redirected;
    From - a trade traffic must be redirected from;
    Language - a language traffic must be redirected with;
    Country - a country traffic must be redirected from;
    GO TO - a trade traffic must be redirected to;
    to activate redirect specify GO TO. If you specify From and Language, all the visitors from specified trade and with specified language will be redirected.

    Subsection Checker


    Banned code - words or HTML code that you disallow on your trade's pages, for example 'window' can be a console;
    Auto source checker - enable or disabe auto checking of trade's HTML, some times a day built-in hitbot goes to trades and checks pages;
    Check only trades with status - specify status of the trades you want to make autocheked;
    Use proxy - use proxy list for hitbot to pervent IP banned or not.

    Subsection Anticheat


    Specify which traffic is good and which is bad.
    Cookie - filter, checking cookie support by visitors' browsers;
    Graphics - filter, checking graphics support by visitors' browsers;
    Javasript - filter, checking javascript support by visitors' browsers;
    Proxy - filter, checking proxy;
    Geography - geography filter, go to section Geography to setup it.
    Depends on the combination of filters you can set the level of quality or even don't count this traffic. For example 5-10% of browsers don't support cookies, most of browsers must support graphics and javascript.

    Subsection Interface


    Allows to redesign your admin panel using CSS.
    Page - page parameters;
    Tables - common table parameters;
    Link - link parameters;
    Visited - visited link parameters;
    Active - active link parameters;
    Hover - hover link parameters;
    Table headers - parameters of table headers;
    Normal rows - parameters of table cells;
    Menu - parameters of table Menu;
    Buttons - parameters of buttons;
    Forms - parameters of text forms;
    Raw In columns - parameters of Raw In cells;
    Unique In columns - parameters of Unique In cells;
    Out columns - parameters of Out cells;
    Counted Click columns - parameters of Counted Click cells;
    Not Counted Click columns - parameters of Not Counted Click cells;
    Productivity columns - parameters of Productivity cells;
    N/a lang Click columns - parameters of N/a lang Click cells;
    Proxy Click columns - parameters of Proxy Click cells;
    No JavaScript Click columns - parameters of No JavaScript Click cells;
    No Graphics Click columns - parameters of No Graphics Click cells;
    No Cookie Click columns - parameters of No Cookie Click cells;
    Click-Again columns -parameters of Click-Again cells;
    Balance columns - parameters of Balance cells;
    Ratio columns - parameters of Ratio cells;
    Deviation columns - parameters of Deviation cells;
    Hover row - hover row parameters on the main page of admin panel;
    Fixed row - fixed row parameters on the main page of admin panel (to fix a row doubleclick on that);
    Trade row - parameters of common trade cells;

    Test shows what it will look like;
    Hour and 24H show this column on the main page or not ;
    Background Color - background of an element;
    Text Type - type of a text;
    Text Size - size of a text;
    Text Color - color of a text;
    Other Decoration - other decoration you can add using CSS;

    Subsection Other


    Proxy list - list of proxies for checker's hitbot, must look like: IP:Port or IP:Port:Login:Password if identification needed;
    Webmaster Page - webmaster.php setup;
    Site URL - location of trade's site;
    Site name - name of trade's site (for toplists);
    Description - description of trade's site (for toplists);
    E-mail - trade's e-mail;
    ICQ - trade's ICQ UIN;
    Banner URL - URL of trade's banner (for toplists);
    Password - trade's password (to login to watch stats);
    Re-type password - confirmation of trade's password;
    Allow to view Stats - allow other webmasters to view stats or not.
    Any field exept Site URL and Password can be disabled.

    10. Outgoing log analyser (section LTracking)

    Dispersion of clicks on a page(s)


    The main page of the section shows dispersion of clicks on a page(s). Link names Thumb, Desc, Blind, Hidden, Toplist, Rt1-Rt5, p0-p3999 are predefined and must be specified in link parameters.
    Clk - shows how many clicks has been made by visitors on this link since 24-00;
    T Clk - shows how many clicks has been made by visitors from a specified trade on this link since 24-00;
    % - shows a part of clicks in percent that has been made by visitors on this link since 24-00;
    T % - shows a part of clicks in percent that has been made by visitors from a specified trade on this link since 24-00.
    By click on a link a log is opened, also you can see previous days by selecting a date in the bottom.

    Subsection Languages


    Shows which language visitors click on the site with.
    Language - language of browser;
    Code - code of language;
    Clicks - shows how many clicks has been made by visitors with this language since 24-00;
    Percent - shows a part of clicks in percent that has been made by visitors with this language since 24-00;
    Trade clicks - shows how many clicks has been made by visitors from a specified trade with this language since 24-00;
    Trade precent - shows a part of clicks in percent that has been made by visitors from a specified trade with this language since 24-00.

    Subsection Countries


    Shows what country visitors click on the site from (if there is no GEO IP module installed it won't work).
    Country - visitor's country;
    Code - GEO IP country code;
    Clicks - shows how many clicks has been made by visitors from this country since 24-00;
    Percent - shows a part of clicks in percent that has been made by visitors from this country since 24-00;
    Trade clicks - shows how many clicks has been made by visitors from a specified trade from this country since 24-00;
    Trade precent - shows a part of clicks in percent that has been made by visitors from a specified trade from this country since 24-00.

    Subsection Proxy


    Shows how many proxy traffic in outgoing.
    Clicks - shows how many clicks has been made by visitors with and w/o proxy since 24-00;
    Percent - shows a part of clicks in percent that has been made by visitors with and w/o proxy since 24-00;
    Trade clicks - shows how many clicks has been made by visitors from a specified trade with and w/o proxy since 24-00;
    Trade precent - shows a part of clicks in percent that has been made by visitors from a specified trade with and w/o proxy since 24-00.

    Subsection IP


    Shows who and how many time made clicks on the site/
    IP - IP of a visitor;
    Whois - shows who is the visitor;
    Clicks - shows how many clicks has been made by this visitor since 24-00;
    Percent - shows a part of clicks in percent that has been made by this visitor since 24-00;
    Trade clicks - shows how many clicks has been made by this visitor came from a specified trade since 24-00;
    Trade precent - shows a part of clicks in percent that has been made by this visitor came from a specified trade since 24-00.

    Subsection Browser


    Shows which browsers are used by visitors.
    Browser - type of browser;
    Clicks - shows how many clicks has been made by visitors with this browser since 24-00;
    Percent - shows a part of clicks in percent that has been made by visitors with this browser since 24-00;
    Trade clicks - shows how many clicks has been made by visitors with this browser from a specified trade since 24-00;
    Trade precent - shows a part of clicks in percent that has been made by visitors with this browser from a specified trade since 24-00.

    Subsection OS


    Shows which operating systems are used by visitors.
    OS - type of operating system (OS);
    Clicks - shows how many clicks has been made by visitors with this OS since 24-00;
    Percent - shows a part of clicks in percent that has been made by visitors with this OS since 24-00;
    Trade clicks - shows how many clicks has been made by visitors with this OS from a specified trade since 24-00;
    Trade precent - shows a part of clicks in percent that has been made by visitors with this OS from a specified trade since 24-00.

    11. Template management (section Templates)


    Basic principles of tamplate management
    A template is processed by ATS PRO to make a main page of the site to show it to your visitors. ATS PRO can show different pages depengs on the trade group of incoming traffic, referrer and different pages for uniques and raw hits. It uses the reserved names of templates for this.
    Reserved names have two parts: {part 1}_{part 2}. The template's file is located in /templates directory and named {part 1}_{part 2}.tpl;
    The first part can be the index of the group, trade's domain, or the word 'default', the second part is a number of visit for a visitor.
    After setup there is the only template default_1, if there are no other templates ATS PRO makes the main page based on default_1 and all the traffic goes there. If you want to make a different page for the trade sometrade.com it must be named sometrade.com_1, if you want a different page for non-unique visitors it must be named default_2.
    Also you can use any other words for template names but you must use the code <?php include('./templates/{template name}.txt'); ?> in index.php to show this template instead of <?php include($page); ?>, to show a template with reserved name use the code <?php include($page); ?>

    Adding a template
    Go to section Templates and press Add. In opened window fill the fields Template name and HTML code. You can use special tags for toplists.
    After filling the form press Add Template, the template is added.

    Updating a template
    After adding a template you can change HTML code at any time. Go to section Templates, select a template and press Edit. In opened form there is only one field with HTML code of the template. You can use special tags for toplists.
    After changing HTML code press Update Template, the template is updated.

    Deletion of a template
    Go to section Templates, select a template and press Delete. The confirmating form will be opened.
    Press Delete Template, the template is deleted.

    Renewing of templates
    If you don't want to wait for an hour you can make a page manually so go to the section Templates and press Renew, file /templates/{template name}.txt with HTML code of the main page will be created. It updates all the pages.

    12. Backup management (section Backup)


    Creating a backup
    Go to section Backup and press Backup, the backup is created.

    Restoration of data
    Go to section Backup, select a backup and press Restore. In opened form select what exactly you need to restore and press Restore in the form.
    The needed part of the data is restored.

    Deletion a backup
    Go to section Backup, select a backup and press Delete. The confirmating form will be opened.
    Press Delete, the backup is deleted.

    Auto backup
    Every day at 24-00 of the server's time the full backup is made. All the backups is kept for a week. If you need more, copy the backup form the directory /backupfiles to your local disk.

    Moving a site to another host using backups
    After creating a backup in the directory /backupfiles the file {date}-backup.png will be created, it contains the 'image' of the site. This file can be copied, moved to another host and read by another copy of ATS PRO. So by copying the file you can move the whole site excepting stats.
    Backup files made by ATS PRO 1.5.7 can be read by vesions 1.6+ and the part of data (Main Database with trades) can be restored but you can't read by the version 1.5.7 files which were made by the version 1.6 and later.

    13. Multisite stats (section Multi)


    Approved terms
    The terms are usually the same as on the main page of admin panel excepting these:
    NT - New Trades - number of trades with New status;
    AT - Added Trades - number of trades with Added status;
    DT - Disabled Trades - number of trades with Disabled status;
    TT - Total Trades - total number of trades.

    Adding a site
    Go to the section Multi and press Add. In opened form enter the URL of another your site like http://www.site.com (http://www.site.com/ or http://www.site.com/index.php won't work correct), admin's username and password.
    After filling the form press Add Site, the site is added, stats of it is available at once just with a little delay.

    Updating a site
    After adding the site can be edited at any time. Go to the section Multi, select a site and press Edit. In opened form ou can change admin's username and password.
    After changing data press Update Site, the site is updated.

    Deletion of a site
    Go to the section Multi, select a site and press Delete. The confirmation form will be opened.
    Press Delete Site in the form, the site is opened.

    14. Page webmaster.php


    This page is for other webmasters to add their trades and view stats.
    Rules - the rules the other webmasters must read and accept to trade with your site. Can be edited in Settings -> Trade Rules;
    Site URL - location of trade's site;
    Site name - name of trade's site (for toplists);
    Password - trade's password (to login to watch stats);
    Re-type password - confirmation of password;
    E-mail - trade's e-mail;
    ICQ - trade's ICQ UIN;
    Description - description of trade's site (for toplists);
    Banner URL - URL of trade's banner (for toplists);
    Category - the main category (niche) of trade's site.
    List of active fields can be edited from Settings -> Other.
    Webmaster login - a form to view trade's stats, the webmaster's domain must be entered as Username.
    Also you can place on the webmaster.php some ads so add HTML code of that ad into file ads.txt and upload it to /datafiles directory.






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