I'm a total newbie to both PPC and HTML/website building. I've read a few posts about remote keyword tracking, but right now, "parameter passing" etc is a double dutch to me. Can anyone please point me towards a good book or guide about keyword tracking, parameter passing, affiliate link cloaking and whatever other information that is required? When I'm confident enough with building landing pages, I will definately use them, but right now I want to test some PPC advertising with Clickbank products, initially directing traffic directly to a vendor site. I know about redirection pages to hide the hop link but how can I track my keywords without having access to remote thank you pages? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I don't want to disappoint you but if you really want to make money with PPC you will need a landing page, otherwise you'll end up here posting something like "I get $5 minimum bid, what am I doing wrong". And believe me sooner or later it will happen.
Hi dog 24. Thanks for your reply. I understand the need for landing pages. I intend to use direct linking for testing purposes only. Meanwhile I still need to learn how to track keywords for direct linking and for linking through a landing page. I will not touch any PPC advertising without some sort of keyword conversion tracking in place. Can anyone help me?
lol yeah, everything dog_24 said was happening to me about 2 weeks ago. You really need a landing page, or you'll be paying $5 a click, and out of 500 clicks you'll get no conversions
Hi Michael, how do you track your keywords? My objective is to: 1. Hide my affiliate id by, I understand the correct term is "cloaking" 2. Be able to track visitors from my ad (by keyword). through my landing page to my product vendor's page, hopefully to a thank you page if they buy what I promote. How do I do it?
Okay, well, the only method to track the sales using direct linking is using Google's conversion tracking, just send it to the vendor, and you'll be fine, I can't see any other methods. There are lots of scrips for cloaking on the net, just Google it.