How To Track Which Traffic Source Made The Sale?

Any of you clickbank tracking pros know how to track which source of traffic made the sale when they end up going through a landing page?

For example if I make a blog for a landing page for a certain product and did the usual promotion (articles,hubs, squids for example),is there a way that I could find out which promotion method brought a visitor to the blog landing page and then onto a sale?

I'm assuming it would need some PHP coding or something to add a tid from the traffic source and then it would pass that on to the link that goes from the blog landing page through to the actual product page??

Anything like this even exist or is it even possible?

 

Yes just see your visitor stats in your cpanel (if you are using linux and cpanel) you can easily find out the source of traffic how much is it coming from which source... if you want other way round...

you need to install a simple post affiliate pro script you can get it for free... than generate unique URLs for different source... and post these URLs in to the source you are posting and just tweak the settings in your landing page with the php code provided by "post affiliate pro script" you could easily track down what is happening and where...

hope it helps...

 

Thanks for the reply.

I know I can find how much traffic a source is providing but I'm really interested in which source is providing the sales.

I guess I'm looking for something that would run on the landing page itself as opposed to different URLs for each source because I want to track Ezinearticle articles as well and you can't use affiliate links or redirects (I think) in the resource box.

 

mikey if you have a solution for this, can please you share with DP members.

 

Use Google Analytics.

 

Yes it is possible. Let me explain with a simple example.I am assuming you have your own website.

Say you are promoting productx from landingpage1.php and article1 and article2.

Step 1: edit the link in your article1 as http://yourdomain.com/landingpage1.php?id=article1.
edit the link in your article2 as
http://yourdomain.com/landingpage1.php?id=article2.

Step 2: create a php file called productx.php and put it in the same folder as landingpage1.php.

productx.php
<?php
$tid = $_COOKIE["id"];
header("Location: http://affiliateid.productx.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=$tid") ;
?>

Step 3: edit the affiliate link in your landing page as following
http://yourdomain.com/productx.php

It is that simple.

 

Thanks for sharing. I hope to use this.

 

I can usually fish out where my sale came from using StatCounter... I look at where the customer is from and then I look at my StatCounter logs and I can usually piece it together in not too much time.

 

Thanks Mikey, I'll hunt it down later on......

Thanks for that, I thinking this is what I'm looking for.

Would you happen to know if I can use a tracking link as above in the Ezinearticles resource box?

 

You can also set TID based on the HTTP_REFERER header.

Your blog should have the following code where you want the hoplink

<?
switch(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']))
{
case 'http://ezinearticles.com....':
$src_id=1;
break;
case 'http://squidoo.com....':
$src_id=2;
break;
// etc
}
?><a href="http://xxx.yyy.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=<?=$src_id?>">Click here!</a>

or if you are using php cloaking
...

<a href="/recommends.php?tid=<?=$src_id?>">Click here!</a>

where recommends.php is
<?php
$tid = $_REQUEST["tid"];
header("Location: http://affiliateid.productx.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=$tid") ;
?>

This is a tad less reliable then the method above but you don't need to setup custom links for that.

 

Thanks Buddy this works!

 

Rather than doing extensive coding, i think if you use google analytics its pretty straight forward.

All you need to do is append your URL with three query parameters of google analytics

1. Utm_source 2. Utm_campaign 3. Utm_medium. Pass value of your referrer and your banner or any other info in this query params.

Once you do that, go to google anlaytics and configure goal of your thank you page.

After that in Google Analytics you should be able to see referrers report and sale/revenue each referrer generated.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Ravi

 

Try something like Adtrackz if PPC or just assign TID's manually..

 

Awesome, I'll have a play around with that too!

Much appreciated!!

That would work if I was just promoting my own product but as I'm promoting other peoples product I wouldn't have access to any thank you page. Thanks anyway.

You can't assign the tid manually when you are sending all the traffic through a single landing page

 

We use Post Affiliate Pro for tracking of sources of visitors/customers, which turned into customers.

We don't need any extra coding, we just inserted simple tracking code on our website and we use direct links tracking in PAP.

Now we can track, which sale was referred from which source (marketing channel) ... I don't think you can do the same in analytics

 

Nice info in this thread for IM newbie