Keyword Tracking / auto insertion of keyword?
Submitted by CCobb on Wed, 11/14/2007 - 05:24.
Hello QYDJ Forum members -
Perhaps someone can help me here as a newbie.
I've found in the forum how to insert keywords into a landing page for such things as the title etc. using ?keyword=Your+Keyword.
Latter I find Jeremy is recomending that we hide the keyword in the affiliate link from the merchant by using ?keyword=1, with the 1 referring back to your spreadsheet referencing a keyword not in the query string.
If I auto insert the keyword into the affilaite link using SID=, then the keyword would be the numeric identifier such as "1" and not the keyword.
What are the forum members using to auto insert the keywords into the affilaite link to track the keyword, yet auto insert the title of the landing page form destination URL.
Does this make sense?
Thanks for the help
Chris
Keyword Tracking / auto insertion of keyword?
Chris,
Just create another variable to store your title keyword. So for example your PPC destination URL would look something like this:
http://www.yourdomain.com/widgets?keyword=1&title=blue+widgetsThen on your landing page just echo the title:
<h1><?php echo $_GET['title'];?></h1>Since you are only echoing the keyword variable in your SID it will still be hidden from the merchant. I'm a hack when it comes to PHP so let me know if this does not work.
-Michael
Keyword Tracking / auto insertion of keyword?
Ah! I get it. Michael thanks much!
So, I'm assuming then that I just leave our &title= in the affiliate link and thus I'm still able to have auto keyword insertion into the landing page an hidethe keyword from the affiliate merchant- correct . . .?
Again, thanks!
Chris
Keyword Tracking / auto insertion of keyword?
Just use the "&title=" in your PPC destination URL. It really doesn't matter whether it's in your link to the affiliate because you are only echoing the keyword (which is an alias to the actual keyword in your Excel spreadsheet).