Re: [Summary-Talk] Google AdWords tracking

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/24/04 5:19 PM Pablo F. Garcia Melga (pablo.garcia@xlnet.com.ar) 
wrote:

>Jason, Is there any way you can detect whether a visitor comes from google
>search because of a match or it comes from an google Adwords ?

You can only tell them apart if you have setup the link in your AdWords 
listing correctly. If the URL you use there is exactly the same as one 
that a "regular" visitor would use then there isn't any way to 
consistently tell them apart. Fortunately, it is simple to set the URL 
you use at AdWords to something that can be easily tracked.

I suggest adding a query string to the end of the URL you use at AdWords, 
something line src=Google. So, for example, if you are sending people to 
<http://summary.net/>, you would tell Google to send them to 
<http://summary.net/?src=Google> instead. Then you can use the Tracking 
Tags feature <http://summary.net/manual/configuration.html#TrackTag>, 
available in Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP, to get information about 
visitors coming from your AdWords ad.

Good Luck
Jason

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