How to Put PHP Keyword Tracking on Your LP

Okay, so a few people have PM'ed me how to track keywords on their AzoogleAds sub Id's using PHP and instead of responding too those people in separate messages, I'll just make a thread.

This is very important for you to do, so that you know what converts and makes you money... and know what sucks and well, sucks all your money away from you.

If someone else has other code to add, feel free.

Now I know I'm probably giving away a little bit too much info, but hey... I'm feeling charitable today :


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The URL in your AD (Google), that you send visitors to should look like this:

- or -


The URL in your AD (Yahoo)

- Remember, the page you send them to must be a .PHP -- it can't be a .HTM or .HTML


Your LANDING PAGE (Google) code at the top of your Landing page should look like:

- or -



Your LANDING PAGE (Yahoo) should look like:

If You Send Customers to the Merchant Page straight from a link on your LP your links should look like:

If You Send Customers to a Jump Page from your Landing Page

Let's say you send your customer to a jump page (like www.yourwebsite.com/jump.php) from your LP. Here is what the link on your LP should look like:

Your Jump Page Code

On your page at www.yourwebsite.com/jump.php, this is what the top of the page should look like:

Hope this helps somebody... God bless!

 

Thanks a lot rep added

 

Thanks for the great info!

Rep added.

 

Just implemented I'm hoping it works!!

Thanks

 

You are a genius!

Thanks man =].

I will bookmark this and hope to use it in the future when I get into this kinda stuff.

regards,
ReN^

 

You the man, wg. +rep for helping the newbies.

 

Thanks. rep added

 

you'll probably want to encrypt those keywords.

ppl may want to try out tracking202 since it's free or adwatch (30 day trial).

 

adwatch ? can u point to url

 

Thanks all for the love and rep everybody

One note about using Tracking202 (free software)... it will encrypt your words from your AM, but on the other hand, you will be giving out ALL your keywords (which are unencrypted) to the owners of Tracking202.

Maybe this is why it's free....

But anyways do a search online for 'keyword tracking' on Google and you'll find something good.

The link to Tracking is www.tracking202.com -- I couldn't find the link to Adwatch though...

 

i love u webgenesis.

lol great job

 

Great job webgenesis!

 

You better believe it!

 

Great stuff!

What's the best way to encrypt the keywords, WebGenesis? I totally agree that tracking 202 is a joke and surprised so many are trying it. Yeaaahhhh, go ahead and send me all your campaign info and I'll track everything for you.

Does using the "jump" page effectively erase the keywords and stop them from reaching the affiliate networks?

Thanks again for your help.

 

This should be common knowledge for all PPC affiliates, even if you don't know anything about programming.

This sure beats begging your AM to put your tracking code on merchants page.

For content network you can grab the "referring site" your visitor came from using predefined PHP $_SERVER array.

<?php
echo getenv("HTTP_REFERER");
?>

OR

<?php
echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
?>

more documentation here http://ca3.php.net/reserved.variables

 

Yeah, you guys can send me all ur keywords too and I'll track them

Using the jump page does NOT erase the keywords... or keep them from reaching the affiliate networks. All it does is:

1) help with ur Quality Score so that Google doesn't see an affiliate link (ex. c.zamp) on ur Landing Page....
2) Make it easy for u to change ur affiliate link in 1 location, rather than having to manually go into each page and change ALL the links.

Some people use databases and assign special codes to certain keywords as to cloak them.

Somebody else who does that and is reading this thread can write up a reply on here and explain in simple terms how they do that.

Nice code Web_Dev... I can definitely use that for my content LP's

 

Followed it verbatim and it's not tracking.

Is it a big deal if instead of my destination URL being: http://www.website.com/page/index.php it is instead: http://www.website.com/page ?

That's the only issue I can see, because everything else is exactly as pictured but nothing is tracking.

Thanks a lot for any help.

 

Sure np! Mind you "HTTP_REFERER" can be unreliable sometimes. It depends on the user's browser. But by default, the browsers are set to pick up this value and $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"] basically references it.

By default, $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"] will give you the entire url string.
like http://www.blahblah.com/blah/blah/blah/?id=213123213

but if you like to grab just the domian name, you run a preg_match on it with the following regular expression.

<?php

preg_match("/((http:\/\/|https:\/\/)(www\.)?(.*)\.[a-z]{3,4})/", $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"], $match);

echo $match[1];

?>

*this is not test. i quickly write this.

 

How much do you charge for programming web_dev? lol

 

this will help any news out there looking to do this.