Google Adwords - Keyword Tracking

I would like to know if this is correct, or if anyone can give a quick explanation in regards to keyword tracking through PPC..

Monitor keyword clicks through my adwords campaign.
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Monitor which TID's/subID's(keywords) are leading through to my affiliate link..

Question: Is there a simple way to replace an affiliate link on my landing page, so that all clicks through my affiliate link wont appear as just "one" subid.. I have 3 landing pages, all with different copy that I am using to split test.. Or would I need to create a LP for each of my adgroups.. I have seven total adgroups and each with 3 targeted keywords..

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Now I am to the point where I am reading about conversion tracking, through a tracking pixel on my page then to the completed affiliates page..

Question: Is this irrelevant considering that I can monitor actions through subID's or is this for my own protection?


Sorry if my wording is hard to understand.

Thanks for any advice.

 

If I understood your question correctly:

You can easily do this if your using php (if your pages are html or htm you may need to do some editing in .htaccess to treat html files as php)

Here is the code off the top of my head:

<?php
$tid = $_GET['tid'];
?>

then you just add the following code to your url link for your affiliate product
href=yoursite\landing.html<?php echo "?tid=$tid"?>

If you add this to each of your landing pages you can also append the variable $tid to add a 2 digit number to represent your landing page.

In this case you can modify the code to
$tid = $_GET['tid'] + 'aa';

Note: aa is the code you assign for your landing page

So if you have 3 landing pages:
Landing pages: aa ab ac
Keywords: 001 002 003

You ad dest url could be ?tid=001
and then if the user comes in you can append the string aa
that way you know that the visitor came from keyword 001 to landing page aa.

So after its all done your affiliate link would be something like mylink?tid=001aa

This is one of the more simple approaches to tracking it gets more complicated if your doing php redirects, url cloaking or pixel tracking.

Sorry if this doesn't make sense. Let me know if you need help.

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I don't know how to give any forum love so ill /hug


I understood the concept of what you just said, but wasn't sure why there was 3 landing pages listed <aa bb cc>.. Seems if I were to just insert the tid/subid format to the end of my destination url, then it shouldn't been a problem? I am using same keywords for each of the 3 landing pages.

I don't know much php nor html.. Is this the idea though?

Desination URL: yoursite\landing.html"?subid=001

Landing Page Link: a href="affiliatelink(dot)html<?php echo "?subid=$subid”?>">ProductNameBLah</a>


Thanks.. Doing this makes me want to move towards tracking pixels, just wanted to get as targeted as I can..

 

I put the three landing pages to show that you don't necessarily need to put any tracking on your adwords campaign for each landing page with the code.

I usually have around 3 landing pages per adword campaign so I can grab the different themes and optimize my page quality score which in turn reduces my cost per click (to a point).

 

Just download adtrackz and have your account manager drop a tracking pixel.

 

My tracking system doesn't require any pixel placement. That sayes you having to get it placed and is far more reliable. Pixels don't always fire and their placement order on a page can change your conversion rate dramatically.

 

Any more information on this?

I just browsed this and seen 2 versions of it, a regular and a gold..

 

Gold. What PPC-Coach was trying to say is to also check out Tracking202. It uses subIDs and I love it so far. That should save you the hassle of checking out other garbage forums

 

Cool and thanks.

Been looking at the prosper setup and I think I will end up going with that.. It seems to be getting a lot of hype on it's features and price(free) status. . Seems a bit complicated though, hopefully I can understand the interface within this week..

Is it pretty straight forward? Seems like the tracking feature of it is, then there comes the roi calculations and the import/export subids functions.. .. I will be purchasing a separate host this week and getting that setup to run on it. I hate trial and error. :s