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Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 02/05/2007 - 23:18.

All,

Thanks to this board and Jeremy's video, I am now using a php redirect to send my traffic directly to my merchant through Yahoo Search Marketing.

My problem is that I need to use SID tracking through CJ but I don't know how to do it for Yahoo SM as they lack the dynamic keyword feature for the destination URL. I have seen some of the php scripts posted on this forum, but I don't know enough about php to understand them.

Does anyone have a script for php that I could use on my intermediate redirect page that will capture my variable keywords from Yahoo and then pop them into a SID parameter for CJ to track them?

Thanks!

Patrick

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Jeremy Palmer's picture
Submitted by Jeremy Palmer on Tue, 02/06/2007 - 04:09.

Have you had a chance to view appendix a of my book yet?

http://www.quityourdayjob.com/members/appendix-a.pdf

The username and password are in the welcome e-mail.

Let me know if that helps.

Best,

Jeremy

Apollo12's picture
Submitted by Apollo12 on Tue, 02/06/2007 - 06:08.

Jeremy,

Thanks for your reply. Also, I goofed by posting as a guest in my last post. :o

With the old Yahoo Search Marketing, setting up SID tracking was easy. I am now using Panama and the problem is that I am unable to set a unique destination URL for each keyword. Instead I have one destination URL for all of my keywords in one campaign.

Will the string: SID= pull the keyword from Yahoo's inbound link to my intermediate php page which has my affiliate link?

Thanks,

Patrick

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 03:12.

I just figured this out it is a huge time saver. If you want to add specific destination urls to your keywords enter the following when you add keywords to your account.

keyword****http://www.yourdestinationurl.com/****

I use excel to CONCATENATE, which makes the whole process really quick.

For more information search Panama Help for custom url's.

Apollo12's picture
Submitted by Apollo12 on Fri, 02/09/2007 - 06:15.

Thanks to everybody on the board, I think I have solved the SID tracking issue using php.

For redirecting links and using a SID, I used the following:

$location = "Location: http://www.youraffiliatelink.com";
if(isset($_GET['OVKEY'])) {
$location = $location . "?sid=".$_GET['OVKEY'];
}
header($location);
exit;
?>

This code will capture keywords from a destination URL that Jeremy
recommends as an example (modified here) in Appendix A of his book:

http://www.affiliatesite/example/landing_page.php?keyword=example

Thanks again!

Patrick

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