I want to know if anyone knows of way to track conversions etc.. with CPA campaigns... It can be free or cost. I want it so I get a report of how they came to site if via Google or SE what keywords... then to assign the subid to end of the CPA link and it be unique so if it converts i know. Anyone know of a program or use one that you can recommend?
I have been looking for something like this as well... do you have a link to phpadsnew? -John Sanseth
The way I track conversions is with subid's. If I'm advertising on Google, I pass the subid=google, on yahoo subid=yahoo, etc.... If you are testing out a new type of campagain or certain type of keywords you could have a special keyword for that. Anyhow, it's too much work to track to a specific keyword unless you are really fanatical about this stuff. You're better off knowing what your general conversion rate is and then tweak keywords, landing pages, etc... from there, but if your conversion rate is already good then you're better off working to find more keywords and whatnot.
The only way you can do that is if you do just direct to offer and then you could be wasting money DAILY on words that aren't converting at all but since they are lumped in yoru group you are still paying for them... Tracking down to keyword is import as for some campaigns can mean difference between profit or no profit . As i track with general subids now... but after deleteing or pausing some keywords i realized i need to track by keywords as some had drastic affect on signsup while others had very little but i was still paying for the traffic.