Tracking submissions - any ideas?

I'd like to somehow track what advertisements are making sales, i'm running site-sift, but what could i do to track what advertisements are making the sales?

Any ideas please?

 

We are beta testing an application re Conversion ROI will post back if it tests out all ok we need another 10 to 20 days of tests to verify

 

Nice!

I'm trying to setup an affiliate system, which i could also be used to check for how many sales etc, but site-sift is a pain

 

If you know PHP, you might use a special referer string like

http://www.yourdomain.com?ref=referer_name_here

to identify where your sales are coming from, using a $_SESSION.

For example if you use ADwords, you might setup the click URL to

http://www.yourdomain.com?ref=adwords and use the $_SESSION['adwords'] variable. Each $_SESSION['adwords'] variable that generated a sale should be logged in a database/text file and any information related to it, for example a $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] or a $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']

Hope it helped you.

 

You could do something like that anyways, but on a much simpler level. Give the referrer a unique domain like http://www.yourdomain.com?ref=referer_name_here and then simply have any unrecognised urls (like the referrals) auto forwarded to the index page. Then you simply look at your webstats program and see the number of people that have tried to access the site through that specific URL.

 

I am using AxRoi, a little expensive but a great tool: take a look at my blog post.