I use the {Keyword} to track Google and Adcenter traffic, but when I use it with Yahoo Search Marketing, I get {Keyword} right back instead of the keyword.
Am I doing something wrong?
Am I doing something wrong?
Can I track keywords with YSM?
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They have OVKEY and OVRAW. Make sure you enable url tracking in your administration panel first though.
Overview: Tracking URLs - Yahoo! Search Marketing
Overview: Tracking URLs - Yahoo! Search Marketing
I can see how this would work if I had a landing page redirect that would get the OVKEY from the URL and then appended it to the redirect URL as &sub=(Keyword)
Is there an easier way though? Like I said, with the other networks, it's just &sub={keyword} and I'm done.
Please help!
Is there an easier way though? Like I said, with the other networks, it's just &sub={keyword} and I'm done.
Please help!
Code:
preg_match('![?&]q=([^&]*)!', $url, $matches) // Google, MSN etc.
preg_match('![?&]p=([^&]*)!', $url, $matches) // Yahoo
preg_match('![?&]query=([^&]*)!', $url, $matches) // AOLFor YSMs Tracking URLs you just match for OVRAW & OVKEY. Matches will be assigned to $matches[1].
Just use a simple link redirect script that you link to, match the keywords, and pass them along. And at some point in the future you can expand this to track more variables and pass only along some kind of identifier for your records, instead of your keywords.
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