Tracker progress – part 1

by Joe Brewer on February 6, 2010

So now I can create campaigns for offers, landing pages, offer rotations and landing page rotations.  I’ve only really tested sending traffic directly to offers, but I’ve only got one real report (and that is still not 100% finished).

Here is the report for anyone that is interested.

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Tracking cost data

by Joe Brewer on January 17, 2010

Although the major three search engines have apis for their PPC engines, PPV engines do not.  This brings up the question of how to track the cost of each impression.

To get accurate stats I could scrape the reports that are available in each of the engines, and I guess this would be the best and most accurate way of doing it.  However to begin with, my tracker can hold average click costs per traffic source per campaign.  As impressions are made the current click cost is looked up from the relevant traffic source and recorded with the click. I’ll likely implement some kind of scraping code later on when I have got more of the other essential features implemented.

What I would really really like is if each engine could pass the click cost back to the tracker in the url, and my tracker could handle this easily with a bit of configuration, but it is very unlikely to be implemented.

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More tracker thoughts

January 8, 2010

Since I had a few more ideas for features, and the progress of coding my dream tracker is going quite well I thought I’d post an update.
Here are a few more features that I’ll be adding in the coming weeks:

The ability to create ads so that the reports can show which ones are performing well.  [...]

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My tracker requirements

December 27, 2009

Thanks to Think Visibility I have been slightly more active in affiliate marketing – this has inevitably meant tracking where my traffic is coming from, where it is going to, and most importantly what keywords are making or breaking a campaign.
When I first joined ppccoach and cpvcoach (formally called ppvcoach) I was treated (or so [...]

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SEO Companies using ethical techniques want me on google page 1

December 7, 2009

I’ve recently been getting requests from people using the contact form on my blog network small collection of blogs offering to get my sites to page 1 of google.  Here are the emails:
Contact name: Robert Karlson
Contact email: robertkarlson3333@gmail.com
Internet Marketing Services
We would like to get your website on first page of Google.
All of our processes use [...]

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