how to track keyword conversions direct linking to aff offers...help!
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You *could* always use prosper. I know some here don't like it for media buys, but if it is a small one in my experience it works just fine. Anything large probably won't do (probably over 800k hits a day, but that is just a guess)
put it in a file called whatev.php
in LeadImpact, you set your link as hxxp://yourdomain.com/whatev.php - then you have to tick 'on' tracking in LeadImpact campaign settings which appends ?keyword=xxxxxx to the url
so your new url becomes hxxp://yourdomain.com/whatev.php?keyword=fatbitches.com
the script then $_GET 's the value of 'keyword' (in the example fatbitches.com, but it will be replaced with whatever domain or keyword you are bidding on), attaches it to your affiliate link as the sub-id, then redirects to the offer.
Actually the code has to be:
Since there's no variable called $target.
BTW: If you'll be tracking subids from the affiliate network, might as well direct link in LeadImpact like this:
Code:
<?php
$kw = $_GET['keyword'];
header("Location: http://youraffiliatelink.com/?subid=$kw");BTW: If you'll be tracking subids from the affiliate network, might as well direct link in LeadImpact like this:
Code:
Creative URL:
http://crazy-edu-scholarship.com/landingpage?subid={keyword}
OP - note however that by doing what's suggested above your network will see what's converting. That is- you're not runing it through something like prosper which stores the keyword and then assigns an outbound NUMERICAL subid so that all the network can see is a number versus that 80% of your conversions are coming from www.convertingtarget.com or "keyword X"
So depending on who you're working with use caution accordingly.
So depending on who you're working with use caution accordingly.
^^^ You're letting the network see your entire campaign like that.
But prosper sucks with ppv...
A better way would be going through a script so it hides the referrer and then manually matching the subids with the keywords. Cumbersome but watever. So you make a script that redirects the viewer to lets say "offer.com/subid=1". Then you write down in notepad file that says "subid 1 = www.targetwebsite.com". When you want to analyze it you match the subids with the urls.
Now all we need is the redirect script since I'm code retarded... Could someone make one? Thanks
But prosper sucks with ppv...
A better way would be going through a script so it hides the referrer and then manually matching the subids with the keywords. Cumbersome but watever. So you make a script that redirects the viewer to lets say "offer.com/subid=1". Then you write down in notepad file that says "subid 1 = www.targetwebsite.com". When you want to analyze it you match the subids with the urls.
Now all we need is the redirect script since I'm code retarded... Could someone make one? Thanks