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Wordpress Landing Page And Keyword Tracking? Need Help

by trelog
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Hello All,

I have a Wordpress theme that I'm pretty satisfied with that is promoting several products. I have bought some traffic to it, and it converts and all.

Now here is my problem and what I need help to figure out: When I buy PPC traffic to the index page of the wordpress blog keywords are tracked fine. BUT if a user clicks on the Category link or the single post link, then the keyword is not "pushed" to the offer link anymore.

I have this setup as of now:
In the main (index) page I have this above everything else in the code:
< ?php
$key=$_GET['key'];
? >

< ?php echo $_GET['key']; ? > on the outgoing links my affiliate offers. But like I said the problem is that the bought keywords are no longer tracked if users clicks into the single post or wordpress categories. I have of course tried to have the same code that I use in the index page, but that didn't work.

I would be extremely happy for help with this tracking issue. (Sorry for any bad English, its not my first language).
#keyword #landing #page #tracking #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Jesus Perez
    You need to add that same line of code to the archive.php, search.php and single.php pages. When you click on a category, you're actually seeing the archive.php page. If the code isn't there, it gets lost.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mary Green
    I would also suggest using Google Conversions when possible. It makes life so much easier and usually doesnt take long at all to set up.
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  • Profile picture of the author JonathanBoettcher
    I had this exact same problem, so I built a wordpress plugin to do exactly what you're looking for. It basically allows you to grab a variable (such as a keyword) as the user enters your site, then tracks them throughout the site via a cookie and appends the variable value to the outbound link when they leave.

    Here's the link if you'd like to try it out - there's a video on this page explaining how to use it.

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    • Profile picture of the author andreypod
      Originally Posted by JonathanBoettcher View Post

      I had this exact same problem, so I built a wordpress plugin to do exactly what you're looking for. It basically allows you to grab a variable (such as a keyword) as the user enters your site, then tracks them throughout the site via a cookie and appends the variable value to the outbound link when they leave.

      Here's the link if you'd like to try it out - there's a video on this page explaining how to use it.
      Hi Jonathan,

      I've tried your plugin on my site - but kws still don't get tracked when i click between the pages. Perhaps you can help me out a little:

      I only have few pages:
      domain . co . uk/
      domain . co . uk / about/
      domain . co .uk/ faq/

      I don't need to pass it to any outbound links - just have the ppc kw passed within my site so I can track which kws caused conversion.

      Are you able to tell me how to implement it with your plugin?

      Thanks
      Andrey
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