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Question: How do you track clicks on your campaigns?

by danielmcclure
6 replies
Hey There,

Quick question: When you run an ad campaign with several different traffic sources that need to point to the same page how do you track where each visitor is coming from?

Are there any scripts people know of and use or perhaps another method?

EDIT: I am aware you can look through server logs and/or create separate pages but I'm looking for something a little more user friendly.

Thanks in advance,

Dan
#campaigns #clicks #question #track
  • Profile picture of the author e-mail2u
    Easiest solution is though your control panel and webstatistics may vary per host but i can see where you came from domain and url clicked from. I know what os system you are using plus much more.

    Also use redirects/cloaked links to track url clicks from your pages. Give each page a different redirect/cloaked link so you can see which page converts the best. This info is also attained from the control panel.
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  • Profile picture of the author kidino
    You can install a click tracking script ... use different links for each ad you run.

    If you already have an affiliate program script, you can manually create new affiliates for each of your ad campaigns. This is just so you know which "affiliate" is referring traffic... doesn't mean you have to pay them... And the cool thing with this, you also know which traffic source converts...

    Ah cool idea about what to do with an affiliate program script...
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  • Profile picture of the author Spencer Westwood
    Use Google Analytics.

    Install the link on the target page and you'll get a breakdown of where the stuff is coming from.

    If its an Adwords campaign the two can be linked....

    Kind regards, Spencer
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  • Profile picture of the author kettlewell
    I use my Aweber for my email link tracking and Google Analytics for my web-page analytics... For my web links, I create unique id's if I'm trying to track where a link got clicked from ... so if I have Page A and Page B that both have a linke to Page C... I'd create pageC.html?PageA and pageC.html?PageB to identify where it came from ... Makes it really easy in Google Analytics (or any other web analyzing program) to identify which links are being clicked.

    So for your ad campaign, just append the ?fromthispage id format to identify which campaigns are being clicked on the most
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  • Profile picture of the author YellowDot Software
    Once you learn a little php you can just use the server variable $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERRER'], I use this to log all my visitors into a database so I can have my own copy of what everyone comes from and then what they click. The great thing is it never matches what my tracking people pick up (google analytics and site tracker).
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