Hello, Can someone give a good source/article on how to track a landing page. It will only direct them to one sales page, but I want to know where the sale is coming from, i.e. Search Engine, Social Networking, Article Marketing, Squidoo etc etc... Tracking is the only real problem I have. Thanks,
put google analytics on the redirect... i think is what you're trying to describe here? either way google analytics is free and it will do the trick.
What you need is called an "Ad Tracker" script - you can find more than enough possibilities if you simply do a Google search on the term. If anyone is trying to do PPC without using a decent Ad Tracker already in place, they're throwing away good money. An ad tracker script will tell you what keyword brought the person to the site, then tell you if they clicked on anything while at your site, and show if they purchased your product. So you'll have an eagle eye view of exactly which keywords were the ones that work... if you're like me, you'll begin to notice that some keywords will bring traffic - but the 'tire-kicking' kind, not the buying kind - so you simply log back into your PPC account and stop spending your good money on keywords that aren't converting.
I really don't do PPC as I Personally suck at it. I really like to know where the person is coming from. Like, Squidoo. but the problem with that is, I want them to go to the landing page then to clickbank product. So, I can't use ID tags. Google analytics I have used before, but nothing related to affiliate marketing...
It's simple you put the analytics code on the redirect along with your meta refresh code....I don't know how I can put it any simpler. I do this on several of my sites with success, as I like to know if my affiliate network is shaving clicks. There is also a part on the analytics site in the content area where you can see the "viewed page" and then look at the entrance keywords people used to get to that page as well as navigation paths as they clicked through your page. You just have to be sure the analytics code is somewhere on every page you wish to track.