I have been promoting a merchant through a landing page on my site and I have been pleased with the results/sales. The traffic has been arriving via Adwords.
I have been reading like crazy and I understand how important it is that I get serious about tracking everything.
When a visiter clicks on the affiliate link on my page, gets sent to the merchant and makes a purchase, is there anyway to know which keyword from Google brought that specific customer to my site to begin with? I guess I want to make the connection between the keywords/ads and the actual sales. Google's Conversion Tracking requires code be placed on a "thank you" page, but I don't use one. A successful conversion for me doesn't happen until the visitor buys from the merchant.
Any suggestions? Is this level of tracking even possible?
I apologize for the noobish question, but I have been searching all day and I can't seem to find the answer.
It's not n00b question, it's a very good question.
Yes lots of options like Google analytics wont work because you don't have access to the merchants thank you page, which is what triggers that a sale was made.
Xray is the only program I know of that does KW conversion tracking.
It works with most of the major networks. Here's some info.
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