Tracking Conversions From Organic Search?

[DonDadda]

I have an affiliate offer that's getting organic traffic, the problem is I don't know what keywords are converting, obviously I have some idea via analytics.

Is it possible to use google analytics or whatever to track which keyword converts for an affiliate offer? I do have access to the "conversion" page to add conversion tracking.

I checked prosper and I don't think it tracks organic traffic. http://prosper.tracking202.com/forum/11/2/tracking-for-seo-and-ppc

 

[SyntraClick]

Was just about to post this same question - anyone familiar with tracking SEO conversions?

 

[Edwin]

SearchMar Marketing Blog: Creating An Organic Conversion Tracking Report in under 2 Minutes

 

[SniperRyan]

Well, I've never done this before, so it's all theory but...

If you were to write a javascript that called something like "onload" and then used the Google Analytics Event Tracking code: Event Tracking Guide - Google Analytics - Google Code you could register a hit on some specific "page" like "/network/campaign/lp" or whatever when the script is loaded.

Next, create an entry in your htaccess to redirect calls to an "image" to that javascript code. So if your code was named tracking.js, you would write an entry to redirect /images/tracking.gif to /scripts/tracking.js causing the JS to load an register the hit on your conversion page.

Then you put your tracking pixel in your network interface for 404 - Not Found.

I'm not sure if this would work since they'll be leaving your site in between landing and conversion, but I think it should be okay. You may be able to hack something together from this general idea.

 

[Magic Hat]

Yes, there is a way. We actually had this problem at work because our store is on a different subdomain from our main site.

See: How do I use Google Analytics to track a 3rd-party shopping cart? - Analytics Help