I was wondering if anyone could help me with a quick query? I want to know whether it's possible to track keyword conversions with an adwords campaign through an optin squeeze page. To use an example, focusing on affiliate marketing of third party products, I understand that we can edit a keyword in our adwords campaign as follows: keyword**0.2**http://www.mydomain.com?tid=PA0001 And this enables me to conversion track from a php landing page by using the tracking request php code on my affiliate hoplink <?php echo $_REQUEST[‘tid’]; ?> code?. What I am wondering is whether it is possible to have my adwords ad link to a landing page that is a squeeze page (with an opt in), and still track for keyword conversions if we are using an opt in form? If so, where do we implement the <?php echo $_REQUEST[‘tid’]; ?> code? So the chain would be 'prospect clicks on adwords ad, gets sent to our squeeze, opts in, and is either redirected to the sales page of the merchant, or to a thank you page with a link to the sales page. Is there a way to still track the converting keyword through the opt-in process? Or does this break the link? If it can be done, where does the tracking request code go? Cheers for any assistance.
whoa, slow down. There's a lot to take in there. Normally if I want to track an optin I put google conversion code on the thank you page, that works fine and google will report which keyword was responsible for the conversion. But something tells me that this isn't as simple as that?
Cheers T-Media. Yeah, what I'm focusing on here is manual tracking, for example when I'm promoting an affiliate product and don't have access to the purchase thank you page to insert the code on, or if the merchant won't add it for me. The easy way of course is to just use a landing page with a link to my hoplink and the tid request code, but I really want to capture the name and email of the prospect before sending them to the sales page. Just not sure if I can track through that process or not.
Sure that's possible, just keep appending the tid to the end of your links. Adwordsad.com?tid=xyz -> squeeze page -> nextdomain.com?tid=xyz -> sales page The tid is just passed to each page in your chain. No big deal.
Another solution is to join a more flexible affiliate network like RegNow. They provide direct links to the order page of a product, so you're free to make your own landing page and then just track when your "order" link is clicked.