Comments on: Tracking Clickbank Conversions From Google Adwords And Other PPC

By: mike

mike — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:11:06 +0000

awesome. this is exactly what i was looking for. i’ve been blindly using bing adcenter, but had no idea how to track conversions…

By: sandy

sandy — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:53:43 +0000

Hi,
I want to get visitors to my landing page which contains an order now button with affiliate ID.
Now in adwords i have to use the display and destination URL as this landing page which is my own. So how do i track conversions if someone clicks on my ad and go to my landing page and press order now button and actually do the action that i want to do.

I am running an CPA offer. How do i track conversion at each keyword level for this. Because i cannot change destination URL in the adwords for each keyword as it will be my own landing page.

However can i put any code in my landing page which will help me to decide which keywords actually converted through my stats..

By: Brent

Brent — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:35:19 +0000

@David – Sorry for the slow reply! Send me a copy of your source code and the page url and I’ll take a look at it. Just email it to brent at brentcrouch.com Put brentcrouch.com in the subject and I’ll keep an eye out for it.

By: Vijay

Vijay — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:21:18 +0000

really helpful and I was exactly looking for this..

Thanks a lot

By: David

David — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:29:04 +0000

Hey Brent,

I know this thread is a thousand years old, I appreciate you’re still answering questions…

The short version is I’m having trouble passing the kw data directly to a clickbank order page.

Here’s my situation:

I’ve cloned a clickbank landing page and made some changes to it, and when prospects click on the order button I’m sending them directly to the clickbank order page.

I’ve incorporated your php code on the landing page, and added the ECHO php code to the end of the clickbank order page link:

http://2.AFFID_PRODUCT.pay.clickbank.net?TID=

WHen I mouse over the link, it does what it’s supposed to (shows ?tid=keyword).

But it’s not actually passing the data to the clickbank order page. At least it doesn’t show up at the bottom of the page as AFFID.TID

I’ve seen a few people around town asking how to pass the tid to a direct order page link, but no answers yet.

Help me ObiWan!

Thanks

David

By: Vic

Vic — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:56:16 +0000

hello Brent!!

I dont now bu t think adwords don’t like me..
They suspended my account twice ,, How do you think why that happens ?

By: Brent Crouch

Brent Crouch — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:38:50 +0000

Dave, it’s exactly the same code as I use in my example. The only thing you have to do differently is to use your affiliate link and sub the snippet of php code I use in my example for the value of ATID. If you need more help send me one of your links and I’ll show you how to set it up.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:16:31 +0000

Brent -

Yes, understood that you can’t do kw-level conversion tracking on content network…and actually that’s okay with me. Since this is a keyword-targeted content network campaign, I am most interested in knowing what domains/pages are bringing me conversions….or even more generally, which domains/pages are bringing me clicks. If I can get this data, then I can setup a second campaign — this time a placement-targeted campaign — and just pay for clicks on the domains/pages I saw converting/driving traffic for me in the keyword-targeted campaign. Does that make sense?

Also, Linkconnector does allow me to pass a subid parameter, they call it ATID (Affiliate Tracking Identifier).

Do you have any ideas on how I can actually accomplish this with PHP?

Thanks for your help Brent….

- Dave

By: Brent Crouch

Brent Crouch — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:00:33 +0000

Dave, yes you can track conversions using the content network provided Linkconnector will let you pass tracking code. Clickbank refers to this as the TID. There are some limitations.

One of the things I don’t like about the content network is you can put 100 keywords into an ad group but Google doesn’t show you which of those keywords are driving clicks. So you can create unique urls for your keywords in the content network, but none of them are ever going to be used. It is always going to default to the url you have setup for your ad. With this in mind, you can track conversions across different ad groups and can even track conversion across different ads. Unfortunately, I don’t know of any way to break this down by keyword when using the CN.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:30:11 +0000

Brent,

Thanks much for taking the time to write this guide, and for your follow-up with everyone — great to see that!

Your solution is excellent for search network campaigns, but I’m not clear if it’s applicable to content network campaigns…I don’t think it is, right? At least not without some modification?

Here’s what I’m looking to do, perhaps you can point me in the right direction….grateful for your assistance…

I am just starting to promote a Linkconnector lead gen offer (Linkconnector is another affiliate network similar to CJ). I’d like to use Google conversion tracking but the advertiser won’t allow that. Also, I’ll be driving traffic mostly with the Google content network (keyword-targeted campaign). Since it’s the content network, I don’t necessarily care about which keywords convert for me (at least I don’t think so), but rather which sites end up bringing me conversions. The idea is to then offload those converting domains into a separate placement-targeted campaign. I know about the Placement Performance Report, and I understand there’s conversion data in that report. But I’m thinking AdWords is only able to grab conversion data via the Google pixel…. but if advertiser won’t allow the Google pixel, how do I get conversion data?

Is there anything I can do other than Google conversion tracking to track conversions on the content network? Also, I’m driving traffic to my own domain (landing page) first…

Appreicate any help you can offer!

Regards,

- Dave