How to Track Keywords AND ad performance?

[Avalanche]

I now track on the keyword level since I have that pretty much automated, but how can I also track conversions by ads at the same time?

I may have a great CTR on an ad, but it may not convert as well (in terms of overall profit) than the others.

So when I look at adwords, I can create a unique destination url for the keyword, OR the ad. If I'm constantly testing new ads, there is no way to track that along with the keywords... is there?

 

[blueyam1234]

on adwords you have to make a new url for each of your ads such as this:
http://yourdomain.com/blah?kw={keyword}?ad=AD NUMBER

and then on your offer url or however you track you have to ad a php code to grab "ad" and put it in your subid.

but yea for each ad you have to assign it a new ad number

 

[Avalanche]

Good suggestion - That was one thing I considered but but I haven't passing the keyword as provided by google.

I heard from some more experienced folks that it would keep the merchants from snooping on what I was doing and replicating it, so I've been cleaning the keywords by assigning each one a number and then matching it back up in my database later on - Am I just being paranoid?

My end game is that I'd like to automate as much of this as possible so I can spend less time analyzing and acting. I have a great tool that tracks by keywords, but it creates unique destination urls - hence no ad tracking.