Hi guys I read/heard there're many ways affiliates can do conversion tracking, but what's the best way? Some of the method i know is, 1. Google Adword Conversion Tracking - it seems really good, however, I think to do google conversion tracking ,we need a thank you page, right? But usually on our affiliate landing pages, our call to action button directs visitors to the merchant site. Then How can we make a thank you page? The only way i can think of is redirect visitors from the "thank you" page to affiliate tracking URL just for the sake of track that conversion? But would google find out and allow such endevour? 2. SID tracking - I'm with CJ. However, to do SID tracking with thousands of keywords, we need to ask merchants to put a code on their page i think? Correct me if i'm wrong. But usually merchants don't give about small fishes, (imagine if every affiliates ask for that) 3. Xconversions - I heard this software from Jeremy Palmer as well as Amit Methr (super affiliates). Is this software a good tool? It's asking details like FTP username, passwords, etc etc and the CTO in my company is worried about this. I don't know how to convince him to not worry (actually I don't even know myself if giving these details to them are good). As you can see, I'm bit stuck at the conversion traffic phase (which is stupid i guess).. But I know I really need conversion tracking in order to optimize my PPC campaign .. Anyone can give some advice please many thx
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Could you give me some brief on the methods they use for tracking? Are these softwares all require details like your FTP, and create some mySQL thing??
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I'm so pissed off at my manager, refuse to use any software including xconversions (i did quite many research all saying it's a good tool).. right now I only can use google analytics for tracking conversion..So I guess I have to make an action page in between my site and the merchants' which says "you're being redirected to blah blah blah, thank you for blah blah blah" , but doesn't that slows the page loading and ppl might leave? Anyway I'm really having headaches with tracking and efficientPPC.......