The Importance of Tracking Your CPA Offers, Clicks, and Leads

If you are serious about making money from CPAcreate this Conversion Tracking code from your PPC
Offers then you need to track the Clicks and Leads. IfCampaigns and then simply notify your Affiliate
you are not prepared to do this you will lose moneyManager at the chosen CPA Network and they should
and your campaigns will simply not succeed. Withbe able to place your code on the success page of
tracking you will be able to monitor which of your CPAthe CPA meaning once a Survey is completed the
Campaigns are working and which are not and thenconversion is displayed in your PPC panel.
simply tweak them accordingly.Almost all CPA Networks allow you to create "Sub
I have been involved in internet marketing for the lastID's" to your Affiliate URLs for every unique URL. All
10 years and can honestly say that if you do not trackthe major search engines will allow you to pass the
your marketing campaigns properly you will lose a lotkeyword using dynamic keyword insertion.
of time and money. I currently run some veryFor example for Google and MSN, all you have to do
successful CPA marketing campaigns ranging fromis append {keyword} to your Affiliate URL and you will
small to very large and some of which earn me inbe able to track all your clicks by keyword.
excess of $20,000 a month.Example:
You must track everything such as:For Yahoo, you have to turn on a feature in your
* Traffic Sourceaccount for tracking and Yahoo will automatically pass
* Ad Groupsthe keyword to the CPA Network. You can pass a
* Keywordskeyword in Yahoo using the token "OVKEY".
* Ad Variations (CTR and Conversions)You can easily pass this Token using the following
* Type of Ad ( Text vs Image)PHP Script: @$_GET['OVKEY'];?
* CPA OffersYou can check your CPA Affiliate Account and see
* Landing Pageswhat keywords have converted in the "subid" reports
If you are promoting a CPA offer with PPC (like Iarea.
mostly do) then the most important thing you need toI can't emphasize enough the importance of Tracking. It
be tracking are the Keywords that you are using inallows you to quickly identify which keywords are
your Campaigns.triggering the leads and then you can simply
All major Pay Per Click search engines supportconcentrate on those keywords in your Campaigns.
Conversion Tracking down to keyword level. You can