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Squeeze Page Tracking - Need Your Advice

by John A Goodwin
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Hello Warriors,

I have a question about tracking optins on a squeeze page. I don't know if there is a script that will do this, but here is what I want to be able to do:

I have a squeeze page to which I'm driving traffic through many different sources. I want to be able to track which traffic source brought how many optins. I know that advertising networks (such as AdWords, Yahoo, Bing etc) have a tracking pixel, which can track conversion rate for traffic which that particular network sent. But how can I track other traffic sources that don't have a tracking pixel?

For example: Let's say I buy a banner on Site A, Site B, Site C, have an article on EzineArticles, have an article on GoArticles, buy an ezine ad, have a link on YouTube video, etc. How can I know which traffic source brought the optin?

Is there any tracking script that will give me a unique tracking link which I will be able to use for each traffic source? Which will then tell me how many optins came from that particular traffic source.

I looked into tracking202.com, but I don't know if I will be able to get it to work for me, because it's made to track conversion rate for people who drive PPC traffic to affiliate programs.

So, does anyone know of such a script or hosted solution, which will give me unique tracking links to use for different traffic sources, so I will be able to know from where (and how many) the optins came?

Thanks
WF-User
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  • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
    you could funnel each link into tinyurls or pinurls etc and then go back for results on each.
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    • Profile picture of the author John A Goodwin
      Originally Posted by avenuegirl View Post

      you could funnel each link into tinyurls or pinurls etc and then go back for results on each.
      I know that many url shortening services can track how many clicks a link got, but it won't tell me how many of those people opted in. For example if I get

      10 visitors from Article A
      15 visitors from Article B
      11 visitors from Article C

      and if I get 16 optins, how do I know which articles brought the optins? Url shortening service can tell me how many visitors each article sent me, but it won't tell me how many people signed up from which article.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brad Spencer
    Google Analytics and it's free. You drop a piece of Javascript before the /body tag in your HTML.

    If you're using Wordpress to host your squeeze page (highly suggested and I'm doing this in my biz for this reason) is to get the Google ANalyticator plugin and just insert the code Google gives you there

    Cheers,

    Brad
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    • Profile picture of the author John A Goodwin
      Originally Posted by Brad Spencer View Post

      Google Analytics and it's free. You drop a piece of Javascript before the /body tag in your HTML.

      If you're using Wordpress to host your squeeze page (highly suggested and I'm doing this in my biz for this reason) is to get the Google ANalyticator plugin and just insert the code Google gives you there

      Cheers,

      Brad
      I know about Google Analytics and I use it for my site, but Google Analytics will show me the source of traffic but not how many optins each particular traffic source sent. I'm looking for some kind of conversion tracking service or script.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin-VirtualProfitCenter
    Go ahead and use Google Analytics. Add a field on your subscriber records to include a "sign up page" source. This is either default on some autoresponders (like AWeber) or you can add it.

    Send each article to a different landing page with a sign up form. Each sign up form sends not only the name and email to your list manager/autoresponder service, it also sends the page URL where the sign up came from. This will allow you to track not only how many visits from each article but also how many subscribers from each article.
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    • Profile picture of the author John A Goodwin
      Originally Posted by Kevin-VirtualProfitCenter View Post

      Send each article to a different landing page with a sign up form.
      Separate landing page for each traffic source (each article, each video, each banner....)? That would mean hundreds or even thousands of pages. Anyone have better ideas?
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        • Profile picture of the author JeffMitchell
          My suggestion would be:



          Banner A www.yoururl.com/bannera
          Banner B www.yoururl.com/bannerb
          Banner C www.Yoururl.com/bannerc

          Ezine Www.yoururl.com/ezine1 or 2 or 3 and so forth

          You need to have google analytics installed on all of these pages. Plus, use a differnt reference id in your optin form code. When I get an Opt-in through my Getresponse account, the reference code that I have inside the main code tells me exactly which site, which blog post, and also gives me the http referrer.

          Hope that helps.

          Jeff Mitchell


          p.s If you want more than just one tracking, install yahoo tracking and you can be sure that you are getting accurate statistics by comparing both.


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          • Profile picture of the author John A Goodwin
            Originally Posted by JeffMitchell View Post

            p.s If you want more than just one tracking, install yahoo tracking and you can be sure that you are getting accurate statistics by comparing both.
            Hey JeffMitchell, I looked into Yahoo Analytics, but how do I sign up for it? Here's what I found: "Yahoo! Web Analytics is currently being offered to Yahoo! Small Business customers who host e-commerce sites with Yahoo!, as well as to advertisers who work with Yahoo! Custom Solutions and Yahoo! Buzz Marketing."

            I guess it's not open to anyone, as Google Analytics is.
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        • Profile picture of the author John A Goodwin
          Originally Posted by AJ Silvers View Post

          And if you set it up right you can use goals to track visitors through to opt ins even sales.
          I just watched a YouTube video on how to setup goals in Google Analytics, I think that's what I'll use.

          Originally Posted by AJ Silvers View Post

          I think you are making a couple of odd assumptions here., Are you really going to roll out 1000 banners, text links, ezine article links?
          Not 1000's of traffic sources, but I at least want to know how many subscribers came from EzineArticles, how many came from YouTube, how many came from banners etc.

          Originally Posted by AJ Silvers View Post

          Hate to be blunt but if you are not prepared to put the work in what results are you expecting?
          Asking which tracking system to use, does not mean I'm not willing to put in the work and install it.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kevin-VirtualProfitCenter
        Originally Posted by WF-User View Post

        Separate landing page for each traffic source (each article, each video, each banner....)? That would mean hundreds or even thousands of pages. Anyone have better ideas?
        There are many ways to do it with ONE landing page.

        Create a landing page where you use php to grab the referrer or add a short GET to the page URL. It's pretty simple to do and gives you the same results.
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  • Profile picture of the author SeanSupplee
    Google analytics add it to your squeeze page and it will track where your visitors are coming from. Free to join as well
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  • Profile picture of the author Stangracer
    Originally Posted by WF-User View Post

    Hello Warriors,

    I have a question about tracking optins on a squeeze page. I don't know if there is a script that will do this, but here is what I want to be able to do:

    I have a squeeze page to which I'm driving traffic through many different sources. I want to be able to track which traffic source brought how many optins. I know that advertising networks (such as AdWords, Yahoo, Bing etc) have a tracking pixel, which can track conversion rate for traffic which that particular network sent. But how can I track other traffic sources that don't have a tracking pixel?

    For example: Let's say I buy a banner on Site A, Site B, Site C, have an article on EzineArticles, have an article on GoArticles, buy an ezine ad, have a link on YouTube video, etc. How can I know which traffic source brought the optin?

    Is there any tracking script that will give me a unique tracking link which I will be able to use for each traffic source? Which will then tell me how many optins came from that particular traffic source.

    I looked into tracking202.com, but I don't know if I will be able to get it to work for me, because it's made to track conversion rate for people who drive PPC traffic to affiliate programs.

    So, does anyone know of such a script or hosted solution, which will give me unique tracking links to use for different traffic sources, so I will be able to know from where (and how many) the optins came?

    Thanks
    WF-User

    Hey WF-User,

    You can use some simple PHP code to solve your tracking issues.

    There's been a few threads about this.

    Here's a link to one that has another killer thread in it and the actual PHP code to use.

    Depending on your auto-responder, you should be able to add a tracking code and just use the echo for it.

    Then you'll know exactly where your opt-ins are coming from.

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-question.html

    It's simple to setup.

    If you have any questions just ask.

    Hope this helps out...

    Thanks,

    Derek
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  • Profile picture of the author John A Goodwin
    I have found a service that does just what I need. Its paid but has all the necessary features I need: hypertracker.com Thanks for all of the help anyways
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