Adwords’s keyword tracking for COPEAC (affiliate program)

March 14, 2008

When you’re running adwords campaign for affiliate program, one of the most important is keyword tracking.
If you can track all keywords which made sales, you can increase your profit by removing the unprofit keywords and add more profitable keywords.
This is my experience when tracking COPEAC promotion using adwords.
I made a landing page for an offer (You can not directly send adwords traffic to copeac’s offer, it will shown a pop up window, and adwords will reject it).

On the adwords destination URL i wrote:
http://mydomain.com/index.php?subid1=google&subid2=topringtones&subid3=
{ifsearch:search}{ifcontent:content}&subid4={KeyWord}
COPEAC can track up to 5 level, here i use only 4 level.
First level tracking i wrote ‘google’ to make a mark that the traffic came from google adwords
Second level i wrote ‘topringtone’ is my campaign name.
Third level i wrote variable ‘{ifsearch:search}{ifcontent:content}’ to make a mark whether the traffic came from search or content traffic.
Fourth level i wrote the keyword variable ‘{KeyWord}’ this will contain the keyword people wrote on search engine.

Now you must wrote this code to your first part of index.php ( or whatever name your file is).
< ?php setcookie("subid1", $_GET['subid1']);
setcookie("subid2", $_GET['subid2']);
setcookie("subid3", $_GET['subid3']);
setcookie("subid4", $_GET['subid4']); ?>

The last thing you must add this to your call to action link (eg. signup.php).

< ?php
header ("location: http://www.cpaclicks.com/redirect.asp?a=xxxxyouraffid&b=xxxtheofferid&d=0&l=0&o=&p=0&subID1=
$subid1&subID2=$subid2&subID3=$subid3&subID4=$subid4");
?>

That’s all. Now you can tracking the keyword by click statistics - GetSubIDstats - displaysubIDstats
keyword tracking1

When you click you will see all keywords like this:
Keyword tracking2

ps. Share your similar experience if you want :-)

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