Tracking PPC results - A tough question

by Byron.Walker Posted: 17 years ago 8 replies

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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KirkMcD 17 years ago

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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- Dan Grossman 17 years ago
  
  I use AdWatcher - Click Fraud Monitor & Ad Tracker. You can place tracking code on the landing page if you don't want to use special tracking URLs.
  
  There's also the free Prosper202 Self Hosted Apps
yaji 17 years ago

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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- Dan Grossman 17 years ago
  
  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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Tracking PPC results - A tough question

Byron.Walker • 17 years ago • 8 replies

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)