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

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

By: Brent Crouch

Brent Crouch — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:14:59 +0000

Are you sending it to a page with a php extension?

By: Brent Crouch

Brent Crouch — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:13:40 +0000

You just assign a unique URL for each keyword. It works fine.

By: Brent Crouch

Brent Crouch — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:11:29 +0000

Vic, I’m not sure what you mean about the Terms and Policy? Why were you disapproved?

By: Brent Crouch

Brent Crouch — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:08:17 +0000

Deanna, Sorry for the slow reply. I’ve been away for a couple of months? Did you get this figured out? You are correct. Your client is not. You can’t put every TID into a single link. That makes zero sense. Let me know if you still need help.

Brent

By: deanna

deanna — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:53:54 +0000

I have a quick question for you – I have designed a webpage for a client who provided me with a list of hoplinks using google keywords. He had a list of 12 hoplinks – my understanding is that each hoplink works like a separate hyperlink – you have 1 button or text with its own hoplink… each with its own TID idenitifier. Makes sense to me… But my client called and said he did not get credit for some sales over the weekend and he thinks that for EACH button/link I need to paste ALL 12 TID hoplinks into the HTML… All of this is new to me and the tracking is confusing… but I just do not think it is possible to attach ALL TID’s into each link, is it? I would think you would need 12 separate buttons/text links – 1 for each unique TID? Is it possible to list all TID’s under 1 link?
I hope this makes sense – I think my client is new to this (as am I) so we are wrapping our heads around how this all works.

I appreciate any advice!
thanks,
DeAnna