Yahoo Tracking URLs

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    Can anyone lend a quick hand with Yahoo Search Marketing tracking links? I'm trying to get the keyword, creative and tactic (ysmtrm, ysmcrn and ysmtac) passed in CJ's Site ID (?sid=), but can't get the thing to work!

    Thanks very much to anyone who can throw up a quick example.
     
    mharad, Jun 8, 2007 IP
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    If you want Yahoo Search Marketing's tracking pixel to record when a sale has been completed through your CJ link, that's not going to work.
     
    tvmatt, Jun 8, 2007 IP
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    Nope, just looking for the keyword to be passed.
     
    mharad, Jun 8, 2007 IP
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    If I understand correctly, Yahoo passes the variables ysmtrm, ysmcrn and ysmtac to the destination URL (so, something like http://yoursite.com/something?ysmtrm=something&ysmcrn=other...), right? You can put these in the SID with a simple PHP script on your website (I didn't check syntax, but it should work):
    
<?
$ysmtrm = $_GET[ysmtrm];
$ysmcrn = $_GET[ysmcrn];
$ysmtac = $_GET[ysmtac];
$cjlink = "http://www.cj.link/goes-here";
header("Location: $cjlink?SID=$ysmtrm-$ysmcrn-$ysmtac");
exit;
?>
    PHP:
    Now, your SID will contain data in the form of "ysmtrm-ysmcrn-ysmtac".
     
    tvmatt, Jun 9, 2007 IP