PPC Keyword Tracker WordPress Plug-in for Affiliate Marketers
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PPC KEYWORD TRACKER WORDPRESS PLUG-IN FOR AFFILIATE MARKETERS
January 29, 2010
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Hey there! I am very stoked to be able to introduce you to my new
premium WordPress plug-in called the PPC KEYWORD TRACKER.
In a nutshell, my PPC Keyword Tracker plug-in for WordPress gives
you (an affiliate marketer) the ability to AUTOMATICALLY TRACK
PPC-BASED KEYWORDS, used to drive traffic to a commissionable offer
being promoting on a WordPress-based blog, website or landing page.
And, MOST IMPORTANTLY the plug-in STORES YOUR KEYWORDS, ANONYMIZES
THEN PASSES THEM AS A UNIQUE TRACKING ID to the Merchants' affiliate
sales tracking software. Now, you will KNOW EXACTLY WHICH KEYWORDS ARE
GENERATING SALES.
_Until my WordPress plug-in became available, there really was no
easy, inexpensive way for the Average Joe/Jane to do this._
Currently, the PPC Keyword Tracker WordPress plug-in can store,
cloak and anonymize keywords associated with the following types of
tracking IDs:
* affiliate subIDs (sid)
* tracking IDs (tid)
* campaign IDs (cid)
* custom tracking variables
* _or create your own_
BONUS: I truly believe that my plug-in's ability to dynamically
CLOAK AND ANONYMIZE your PPC keywords is one of it's strongest
features. In effect, your merchants won't get to take advantage of
your hard work!
Example of a Cloaked Anonymized Keyword:
From: http://www.yourdomainname.com/?tid=teeth-whitening
To: http://www.yourdomainname.com/?tid=5
You can see that the keyword "teeth whitening" has been cloaked with
the anonymized variable "5." This number 5 is what gets dynamically
passed through your affiliate URL to a merchants' affiliate tracking
software.
To be perfectly clear, I think it is worth me repeating that the
anonymized version of your keywords (tracking ID) is what a merchants'
affiliate tracking software will credit with an associated sale. Thus,
YOU'LL KNOW WHICH KEYWORDS, TRACKING IDS AND CAMPAIGNS ARE GENERATING
SALES. Now armed with this information, you will FINALLY be able to
truly OPTIMIZE YOUR PPC CAMPAIGNS DOWN TO THE KEYWORD LEVEL.
Who wants to spend money on keywords and creatives that do not
generate sales? Not me!
Scratching your head? WATCH THE VIDEO and it will all make sense.
HOW THE PPC KEYWORD TRACKER WORDPRESS PLUG-IN WORKS
NOTE: This video was published prior to my plug-in being listed
Please ignore all references made in the video with regard to the
plug-in being in Beta. Sorry for any confusion! I'll be adding an
updated version in the near future. In the interim, please feel free
to contact me with questions.
THE PPC KEYWORD TRACKER PLUG-IN’S MAIN FEATURES INCLUDE:
* Store Unique Tracking IDs (Variables)
* Affiliate URL Cloaking Rotator
* Keyword Cloaking Anonymizer (with full-export functionality)
* Basic Click Data
CONFIRMED TO WORK WITH THESE AFFILIATE NETWORKS
* Clickbank (_Confirmed_)
* Networks using Direct Track Tracking (_Confirmed_)
* Neverblue (_Confirmed_)
* Azoogle (_Confirmed_)
* Commission Junction (_Confirmed_)*
* CX Digital (_testing soon_)
* GetAds (_testing soon_)
*NOTE: CJ.com only displays SID (subid) when a purchase is made. I
think that's lame, but it is what it is.
WHY DID I CREATE THE PPC KEYWORD TRACKER WORDPRESS PLUG-IN?
In early 2009 I created a WordPress-based blog and planned to use
Google AdWords to buy some traffic to test the blog’s main offer (an
e-book). Little did I know that trying to track the keywords I was
paying for using a WordPress-based blog was going to be such a
nightmare. I LITERALLY SPENT 6 – 9 MONTHS LOOKING FOR SUCH A
PLUG-IN!
I truly believed that any plug-in I found would have to be easy to
use, automatically capture tracking IDs and associated keywords, store
them and cloak and append an anonymized variable (tracking ID) to my
affiliate URL so I would know which keywords were generating sales and
the merchant would not. Who wants to pay for PPC keywords that don’t
convert?
At any rate, I was about to give up looking and just pay somebody to
build such a plug-in for me. That's about when I came across a search
engine ranking that looked promising. And it was!
It was a blog ran by a really nice and helpful guy named . He had a
plug-in called the URL Rotator (with Tracking) Beta, which seemed
close to what I was looking for. Thus, I downloaded and installed it.
I tested the plug-in for a few days, which I found to be quite easy.
And, it was this testing of Jonathan's that provided further
validation for a few additional features I thought might make this a
more complete option for myself and potentially affiliate marketers.
Following, after a bit of additional brainstorming and a few
discussions with a friend of mine, I decided it was time to have my
own WordPress plug-in built… and the PPC Keyword Tracker was born.
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BUY MY PPC KEYWORD TRACKER WORDPRESS PLUG-IN FOR JUST $47 (USD)
Thank you in advance for your interest in purchasing my PPC Keyword
Tracker WordPress plug-in. It truly is an awesome and necessary tool
for any affiliate marketer using WordPress to promote offers.
To buy my plug-in, select your order type below and continue by
clicking a Buy Now button. I am selling my plug-in via ClickBank.com,
so you will be redirected to a page(s) hosted on a clickbank.com
domain name to ensure a secure transaction.
LICENSE TYPE
PRICE
BUY
Single License (1)
$47
Unlimited License (2)
$94
1 Plug-in may be used on one domain name.
2 Unlimited usage license for the price of 2 licenses.
Please feel free to with any questions. If you email me I can let
you know when this plug-in is available for sale via ClickBank.
{ 2 trackbacks } Tweets that mention PPC Keyword Tracker WordPress
Plug-in -- Topsy.com 01.30.10 at 11:53 pm Where do you want to go
today? Affiliate Tracking ID Cloaker 02.09.10 at 8:58 pm
{ 10 comments read them below or } Eric Itzkowitz 02.01.10 at
7:25 pm
If you want my plug-in, but feel uncomfortable about filling out the
form to get it, just send email to me ERIC [AT] ERICITZKOWITZ.COM and
I'll send it to you as an attachment. No worries! I know you'll love
it! Thanks.
[] Daniel 02.10.10 at 12:20 am
Eric,
Thanks for your hard work! Question: Google is really "down" on
affiliate marketers now, and knocks down Quality Score and/or ups bid
prices and/or deletes accounts if they detect affiliate links on a
landing page.
Does your plugin effectively cloak the link so it no longer looks
like an affiliate link or can one use a cloaker or php redirect and
still use your plugin?
[] Eric Itzkowitz 02.10.10 at 1:38 am
@Daniel The plug-in allows you to create a friendly URL. When you
setup an affiliate group, you will be asked to create a "slug name"
for your friendly URL. Let's say you want your slug for this affiliate
group to be "offer." Your friendly URL will be . You will use this
friendly URL wherever you want to create a link to the offer/squeeze
page on the merchant site. It also includes a URL rotator, so you can
test multiple offers all via the one friendly URL. That means you
don't have to update your landing page each time you want to try a
similar offer from a different merchant(s).
[] Jonathan Boettcher 02.10.10 at 7:06 pm
Hey Eric, thanks for the shout out!
I see a bunch there that looks familiar, and some pretty cool new
features too. I'm going to give the plugin a test drive - I'll let you
know what happens!
Cheers
Jonathan
[] Eric Itzkowitz 02.11.10 at 1:18 pm
Jonathan, thanks!
FYI I further edited the part of this post that includes mention of
you and your plug-in to hopefully let anybody reading this post know
that testing and using your plug-in helped me to validate which
additional features and functionality would make the plug-in even
better. I also gave you some more link love. (:
[] Ken 02.15.10 at 10:49 pm
Hi Erik,
Does PPC keyword tracker work on other affiliates network, e.g.
other CPA network(Azoogleads)?
I noticed that there are only 4 options of URL templates on the
setting.
Does that mean that it only works with these 4??
thanks!
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Eric Itzkowitz Reply:
February 16th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
@Ken Those are merely examples. You can use whatever tracking ID you
want. Be sure you store whatever tracking ID you want the plug-in to
remember. I really appreciate you using the plug-in. Let me know how
it works. I'll take everybody's feedback and make the plug-in even
better. Thanks! - Eric
[] Jonathan Boettcher 02.16.10 at 2:16 pm
Thanks Eric, I really like your plugin!
@Ken, You can use the plugin with multiple affiliate networks the
key isn't the variable that you send to the plugin, the key is in how
you format the outbound URLs. IE, you'd include a TID= for clickbank,
SID= for CJ, and SUBID= for certain other networks.
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Eric Itzkowitz Reply:
February 25th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
UPDATE: When storing multiple variables in the Stored Variables
field, do not use a space after a comma.
Wrong: var1, var2, var3
Right: var1,var2,var3
[] Alok 03.18.10 at 7:34 am
Hi Eric,
Thank you for putting together such a great plugin. It is a helpful
solution for a difficult problem.
I'm having one issue.I keep getting this error on my keyword anon
report:
WARNING: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
Now, I'm also trying to track my conversions using google website
optimizer and am sending people to a meta refresh redirect (so google
registers the conversion) then to a php redirect (using the slug your
plugin generates, which sends the visitor to the offer), any thoughts
on what I could do to make the data show up on the report?
Thanks!
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Eric Itzkowitz Reply:
March 22nd, 2010 at 12:21 pm
@Alok, Thanks for downloading my plug-in. With regard to the
warning, please try deactivating the plug-in then upload and activate
it again to see what happens. Make sure you store appropriate tracking
variables, as well. Google, for example, uses ?kw= so you’d want to
store just the “kw†portion in the plug-in. You are not using
Hostgator are you? It was reported to me that there is something about
their setup that just doesn’t like my plug-in or others for all I
know.
With regard to you trying to track conversion via the method you
describe, I’m afraid that’s a bit over my head. I think I know
what you are trying to do, but I don’t know how to make it work. As
far as I know, unless you ask a merchant to add a tracking cookie to
their success page or some sort of tracking beacon, you won’t be
able to actually track.
But, the plug-in will store the keywords you are using to drive
traffic and then anonymize them before appending it to your affiliate
URL and passing the tracking ID to the merchant’s affiliate tracking
software. You’ll know what keywords/campaigns are driving the sales.
In the next version of the plug-in I am going to add in a time stamp
for each click so you will know when the click took place, as well as
a search function so affiliate with many keywords can do a quick
search for any.
[] Vanessa 03.20.10 at 7:19 pm
I've started using your awesome plugin on 2-3 offers I'm promoting
within a single CB account. You've made many of the features I would
like in a ppc keyword tracking plugin.
I have two questions/comments.
When promoting multiple offers with different urls with this plugin
in the same affiliate account, (like CB), will the numbers always
starting at one. This is messing up my hop tracking count in CB for
the diff offers.
Ex. Hops 1-10 are used for offer1.com/?tid=X and for
offer2.com/?tid=X (both new sites and using plugin) in the same
account would mess up which keyword got X hops because the variables
aren't unique to the offer in the account.
Could I choose where the numbers start or have a bigger random
number starting so there's less chance of the unique vars being the
same?
What I was using before to anon and track clicks was the pretty link
plugin. I really liked how it would break down the time and info on
where each click came from so I could see a pattern and what times of
the day had the most conversions. I'm looking forward to your next
update with time-stamping the anon links!
Thanks for your hard work and willingness to share
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