tracking keywords - fucking pissed off
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well it's supposed to be {keyword:default keyword here} with no spaces between keyword and : (atleast I think that's why your thing is messed up).
ugh maybe I should write a tutorial with pics to show you guys lol!
and turbolap, it depends on the affilaite network you are using. Most of them do have keyword tracking through subid's, but each network has a different setup. I'll post a tutorial for you noobs after I'm done setting up my campaign.
ugh maybe I should write a tutorial with pics to show you guys lol!
and turbolap, it depends on the affilaite network you are using. Most of them do have keyword tracking through subid's, but each network has a different setup. I'll post a tutorial for you noobs after I'm done setting up my campaign.
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LOL
wait why are you using default? if you're gonna use it in the url there's no need for a default. default is only there for if the word is too long for the max amount of characters allowed. unless your keyword is like 1000 characters long I don't think you really need it.
wait why are you using default? if you're gonna use it in the url there's no need for a default. default is only there for if the word is too long for the max amount of characters allowed. unless your keyword is like 1000 characters long I don't think you really need it.
warning, i'm not good at explaining things.
so here's a really simple way to track keywords. It uses simple PHP and some dynamic keyword magic!
First let me explain how a keyword goes from your ad to your webpage. For those of you who don't know, the URL is a great way for you to store all types of info. Say your URL is mysite.com. with this url, you can actually add more stuff to it like mysite.com/?keyword=mykeyword. just look at the url for this thread... it has the thread title in it wickedfire.com/tracking-keywords-fucking-pissed-off. that's 1 example of how info is stored in the url.
Another example would be google...
apples - Google Search
q = any term you want. "q" is probably short for query. so if you put in wickedfire it will search google for wickedfire.
to track your keyword conversions you must first transfer the keyword from your ad on adwords(or any ppc engine) to your site, and ultimately into the sub id within your affiliate link.
Here's an example google ad:
{KeyWord:Tasty Apples for Sale!}
All apples are contaminated.
Except apples from my store.
order-apples.com
and the destination url is:
order-apples.com/?id={keyword}
{keyword} gets replaced with the keyword that activated the ad and allowed the user to click on it. So say you bid on the terms...
order apples, cheap apples, buy apples.
if the user searches for "cheap apples" on google your ad will come up. if the user clicked no that ad, {keyword} will be replaced by "cheap apples". Your destination url will now look like this...
order-apples.com/?id=cheap apples
Because I want to make this simple I'm not gonna explain redirects. All you need to do now is to insert the keyword into your affiliate link. Go into azoogle and find the offer you would like to promote. Get to the place where they have your affiliate link as depicted in the pic:
See how is says ?sub=apple ?
that is where your keyword goes. instead of sub=xxx you need to replace xxx with the keyword you are using. With the keyword already in the url it should be easy.
This snippet of php code pulls the keyword from the url and stores it into a variable called $id.
<?php
$id = $_GET['id'];
//aff link between the quotes
print ("http://x.azjmp.com/XXXX?sub=$id");
?>
http://x.azjmp.com/XXXX?sub=$id will now become 404 Error apples
save this as id.php or something. When you link all you have to do now is...
<a href="<?php require'id.php'; ?>">Click here to buy apples.</a>
To find out which keywords converted you have to goto azoogle and look at your sub id reports.
Sorry if this seems kinda rushed. it was more difficult to explain to complete noobs than I initially thought.
so here's a really simple way to track keywords. It uses simple PHP and some dynamic keyword magic!
First let me explain how a keyword goes from your ad to your webpage. For those of you who don't know, the URL is a great way for you to store all types of info. Say your URL is mysite.com. with this url, you can actually add more stuff to it like mysite.com/?keyword=mykeyword. just look at the url for this thread... it has the thread title in it wickedfire.com/tracking-keywords-fucking-pissed-off. that's 1 example of how info is stored in the url.
Another example would be google...
apples - Google Search
q = any term you want. "q" is probably short for query. so if you put in wickedfire it will search google for wickedfire.
to track your keyword conversions you must first transfer the keyword from your ad on adwords(or any ppc engine) to your site, and ultimately into the sub id within your affiliate link.
Here's an example google ad:
{KeyWord:Tasty Apples for Sale!}
All apples are contaminated.
Except apples from my store.
order-apples.com
and the destination url is:
order-apples.com/?id={keyword}
{keyword} gets replaced with the keyword that activated the ad and allowed the user to click on it. So say you bid on the terms...
order apples, cheap apples, buy apples.
if the user searches for "cheap apples" on google your ad will come up. if the user clicked no that ad, {keyword} will be replaced by "cheap apples". Your destination url will now look like this...
order-apples.com/?id=cheap apples
Because I want to make this simple I'm not gonna explain redirects. All you need to do now is to insert the keyword into your affiliate link. Go into azoogle and find the offer you would like to promote. Get to the place where they have your affiliate link as depicted in the pic:
See how is says ?sub=apple ?
that is where your keyword goes. instead of sub=xxx you need to replace xxx with the keyword you are using. With the keyword already in the url it should be easy.
This snippet of php code pulls the keyword from the url and stores it into a variable called $id.
<?php
$id = $_GET['id'];
//aff link between the quotes
print ("http://x.azjmp.com/XXXX?sub=$id");
?>
http://x.azjmp.com/XXXX?sub=$id will now become 404 Error apples
save this as id.php or something. When you link all you have to do now is...
<a href="<?php require'id.php'; ?>">Click here to buy apples.</a>
To find out which keywords converted you have to goto azoogle and look at your sub id reports.
Sorry if this seems kinda rushed. it was more difficult to explain to complete noobs than I initially thought.
Honestly, I'd just learn to use a landing page. You'll be able to collect all the important info on your visitors + Google seems to be frowning upon this technique so you'll be losing out on a ton of traffic.
I can't put my keyword in there since I have 10,000 keywords in my campaign, I'd have to go and edit every url in my keyword. I was under the impression using this: {keyword:default} in the url of the ad copy of the ad group that it would automatically pull up the keyword that was used during the search. You're saying to change "default" to the keyword, correct?
Anyway I'm going to get some landing pages built instead, I was just hoping there would be a way to test a campaign to see how it responds before investing into a landing page. So I can have the landing page built around the keyword or phrase that's converting.
dude... im telling you to remove DEFAULT. it has no purpose in a url destination.
just use {keyword} it will pull it even if you have 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000 keywords. Once the keyword is in the url all you have to do is pull it from the URL and put it in ur aff link.
that is using a landing page or else I wouldn't tell people to use php to pull the keyword from the url...
edit: oh wait u talkin about ub's current method?
just use {keyword} it will pull it even if you have 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000 keywords. Once the keyword is in the url all you have to do is pull it from the URL and put it in ur aff link.
that is using a landing page or else I wouldn't tell people to use php to pull the keyword from the url...
edit: oh wait u talkin about ub's current method?
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