Search Engine Tracking Tool?? - GoFuckYourself.com

davvve · 07-15-2003, 09:19 AM

Hello

Our company are about to start investing more money in PPC traffic from various search engines. Is there an easy way to track how many clicks which end up en actual sales. Does anyone here on GFY have such a script for sale/free or know where to get one.

Thanks

WiredGuy · 07-15-2003, 11:23 AM

This really depends on your affiliate tracking system and not the search engine. The way you would set something like this up is basically assign a new affiliate code for each search engine you want to track and for every hit that arrives to your page, you would need to embed the keyword used to arrive there into a hidden parameter and carry that parameter from page to page until the credit card transaction is complete. It's very useful information to track which keywords are making sales and which are a waste of money, but it's not a system that is very easily setup.

Alternatively, you can use hidden 1x1 images that have the keyword embedded in the request url (ex: spacer.gif?key=keyword1+keyword2) and then you can track the keywords this way from page to page.

Just my

WG

07-15-2003, 09:19 AM	#1
davvve Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Europe / India Posts: 560	Search Engine Tracking Tool?? Hello Our company are about to start investing more money in PPC traffic from various search engines. Is there an easy way to track how many clicks which end up en actual sales. Does anyone here on GFY have such a script for sale/free or know where to get one. Thanks __________________ Graphic Artist- $1400 \| Developer - $1400 Email/MSN: [email protected]

07-15-2003, 11:23 AM	#2
WiredGuy Pounding Googlebot Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 34,486	This really depends on your affiliate tracking system and not the search engine. The way you would set something like this up is basically assign a new affiliate code for each search engine you want to track and for every hit that arrives to your page, you would need to embed the keyword used to arrive there into a hidden parameter and carry that parameter from page to page until the credit card transaction is complete. It's very useful information to track which keywords are making sales and which are a waste of money, but it's not a system that is very easily setup. Alternatively, you can use hidden 1x1 images that have the keyword embedded in the request url (ex: spacer.gif?key=keyword1+keyword2) and then you can track the keywords this way from page to page. Just my WG __________________ I play with Google.