Mastering PPC Conversion Tracking

Created by vancetodd1551 on Thursday, February 05, 2009

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PPC marketing is a quick and easy way of sending visitors to a website; it's instant and affordable if done right. {Regretably|However|Unfortuntately many Pay Per Click advertisers hardly get it right and a big number of these PPC marketers lose money and lose their shirt. The reason for this happening is largely attributed to their being unable to do PPC Conversion Tracking.
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PPC Conversion Tracking is the procedure of understanding which keywords send visitors to your website that become customers. This is particularly crucial for online business owners or webmasters who have a set goal in mind, and a particular action they want visitors to take.
For affiliate marketers, PPC Conversion Tracking helps in increasing their ROI for a lesser amount of money. This is accomplished by terminating any keywords that only get clicks but do not yield customers, and allocating the money saved into the keywords that get clicked by visitors who do become buyers. Most affiliate programs understand this and even allow affiliate marketers to include a tracking ID with the assigned unique affiliate URL. For ClickBank affiliates, you would probably know this affiliate URL as a hoplink. The tracking ID that is added to your hoplink, identifies the keyword used that got a visitor to your website.
Many PPC marketers normally use the conversion tracking feature in AdWords to find what keywords lead to a conversion goal, but there are limits which can be misleading or a reason for misinterpretation of data. This error results from AdWords keywords you bid on using broad match; where your ad copy is shown by keyword searches which are synonyms or related to the actual keyword you are bidding on. So if a conversion is listed, the conversion is credited to the broad matched keyword you are bidding on and not the actual keyword that triggered the ad impression.
Assigning a tracking ID to each keyword in your PPC campaign can be a long and tedious job especially if you are bidding on hundreds or even thousands of keywords.
PPC marketers who understand the importance of PPC Conversion Tracking use specially created software that help them set up their keywords for PPC campaigns, easily creating broad, phrase and exact match versions plus adds unique tracking IDs for each of the keywords.
One such software is Affiliate Prophet, a very powerful PPC Conversion Tracking tool that has even more features and capabilities that make profiting through Pay Per Click a whole lot easier and faster.
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