Tracking PPC results - A tough question

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Hope someone can help me out with this question:

How can I track which keywords are being used by people who actually purcahse an affiliate product from me. In my example, i have a "review landing page" where there are 3 different affiliate products. So when someone clicks on my PPC ad, they go to my landing review page, then on to one of the affiliate product page and buys -- i want to know which keyword the people who purchase the affiliate product initially used to start the process. (This would be easy to do if there were only 1 affiliate product, but there are 3 affiliate products)

I know this can be done because i purchased the 'Google Nemesis' product from Chris X and his template review sites are able to track which keywords are being used by the people actually buying one of the 3 affiliate products. There is no special tracking ID's that are added on the Google PPC side of things. But there are tracking ID's showing up on sales in the click bank reports sections, so some how the Nemesis system is adding the tracking ID's.

If anyone knows how to do this, let me know. If you can actually get this set up on my website i'll pay you for it. Or even if you can just explain how its done, then i'll pay someone else to do it for me (and owe you a beer for your suggestions!).

Thank you,

Byron
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  • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
    Here are two inexpensive products that will help you track affilate sales using PPC.

    Covert Conversion Pro and Optimize My Site

    They both work well.

    Do a search for "Covert Conversion Pro" to find places selling it.
    Optimize My Site is available here: http://www.optimizemysite.com/features/
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  • Profile picture of the author yaji
    Can you separate those products like one affiliate product per landing page? It is much easier to track, and the page also loads faster too.

    Sorry no immediate solution to your situation but we amy change the situation sometimes to make solution obvious. At least this is what many people do.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
      It shouldn't matter how many products you have. The code on the landing page sets a cookie identifying the visitor (and records where they came from, including keywords if it was a search engine). The code on the 'thank you' page of any of the products checks for that cookie and records the sale came from that info you recorded before.
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      Improvely: Built to track, test and optimize your marketing.

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      • Profile picture of the author Byron.Walker
        Thank you for the great suggestion. I went with Optimizemysite.com and will have it installed next week. Thanks again!
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        • Profile picture of the author Matthew Miele
          Hey Byron,

          Im not sure if im a bit late but I had a thread similar to this.

          I wanted to make a script to track all my keywords

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

          It works perfectly thanks to joefission

          Hope this helps

          Matthew
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          • Profile picture of the author PPC-Coach
            I use my own tracking system that doesn't require any pixels, but you can always place the pixel from google/yahoo or msn or any of the second tier ppc engines on the merchants thank you page. (If the merchant allows that).
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            • Profile picture of the author masterlesssamurai
              Having used almost all of the main tracking solutions out there, I think Tracking202 (aka Prosper202) is your best option IMO. It can do what you want, not just track the keyword, but also run a landing page with multiple offers on it, and assign a unique subid per each criteria. Most trackers only assign a subid to the keyword, but this doesnt tell you much about the click. Tracking202 assigns subids based on browser, keyword, search engine, ip, ad...etc, so you can really fine tune your optimization efforts.

              Also, if you are working with an affiliate program that doesn't have subid tracking, that is ok since the new version supports dynamic pixel firing. You just send over the Tracking202 pixel to your affiliate network, and they will place it for you. When your keywords convert, your stats will show the related data on how it converted.
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