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Suppose your main landing page is http://www.yoursite.com/store.php (I'll assume you're scripting in PHP), then when you submit a landing-page URL for your advertising, you'd append a parameter to your URL with a unique value to identify the ad source. E.g., you could make it something like http://www.yoursite.com/store.php?ad=adwords or http://www.yoursite.com/store.php?ad=adsense etc. Then when a user clicks on an ad and lands on your page with that URL, the scripting in your page would look for the value of the ad= parameter in its URL and append that as a custom= value on every Add to Cart button URL on your page, so that value would get included with the order data.

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...Mike]]> E-junkie Discussions; MikeD http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/4097/pg/0#post13205 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/4097/pg/0#post13205 Tue, 2 Feb 2010 01:41:04 GMT E-junkie Discussions; E-junkieGuru http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/4097/pg/0#post13205 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/4097/pg/0#post13205 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:33:50 GMT
Bascially, for ad tracking purposes I'd like to be able to track which ad is producing sales. So while I can track an inbound link by creating a custom landing URL, I can't later track if that inbound link resulted in a sale. The only solution I can see to this is to create a bunch of fake affiliates, and use them to do the tracking.

This will result in a PITA come affiliate payment time, because I would then have to edit the masspay.txt manually. It would also skew the reporting results.

Is there another way?

...Mike]]> E-junkie Discussions; MikeD