I have been doing some PPC ad campaigns that go directly to the advertiser (i.e. no landing page) over the last year or so. My frustration with CJ is the difficulty in tracking results. For the most part the affiliate links I get do not have an option to add a tracking code to them (a few do but most not). For example: I am sending PPC traffic to Advertiser X. I put together several different campaigns, grouping keywords, different ads etc. Now I start to see results coming in to CJ stats. However all the campaigns are grouped together and there is no way to figure out which are doing better than others. So it becomes very difficult to tune the overall ROI. My solution: When creating links in CJ I select different domains for each campaign and make a list like: Google Campaign #1 - domain1.com Google Campaign #2 - domain2.com MS AdCenter Campaign #1 - domain3.com etc. So now when I look at my stats I can judge how each campaign is doing and make adjustments. My question: Is there an easier way to do this? My way is kind of an annoying thing to have to do especially when I want to track a lot of different things.
Do you know how to use SID tracking? If you log into your account and run a search for "Smart Rewards" in their help section, you'll get all the info you need to track your sales down to the keyword level.
This was just what I was looking for. I use SIDs on standard links but there is no default option for SIDs on "keyword" links. Your comment lead me to what I needed though. Thanks for the info.
It makes no sense to me why they would remove it. It is such a critical feature. Any idea why they removed it?