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Site A sells stuff.
Site B contains links to site A.
If a user clicks on a link on site B to site A, there will be placed a cookie on the users computer that will last for 30 days. If the user then returns to site A from the same computer where the cookie is stored, within 30 days, and makes a purchase on site A, then this buy will be registered as originating from site (domain) B.
Is that possible with Google Analytics? If not what is the easiest way to implement this on a site?
Thanks
My understanding is that you are site B, and you are an affiliate for site A. You want to find out what is converting on your site(B) to sales on Site A.
There are a few ways of doing this, and they all vary by the technology of the affiliate program.
1. If you can place a tracking pixel/code on site A thankyou/ order confirmation page. Then you should be able to track all the way from your site using Google analytics.
2. If site A has a nice affiliate program/software you may be able to look at your stats and find out referral URLs, which could show you referring page details.
3. If site A allows SIDs, you will either need to use software or build software to tag inbound traffic on site B with a cookie/SID and make all of you outbound links also have the proper SID on them. Then build reporting and such so you can enter sales back into your system to find out what is converting.
4. If they have none of the above, then you probably will not be able to get any info.
If you are Site A, and want to know/be able to pay site B for the sale they created, then you need to set up an affiliate program. There are numerous providers/services out there, ranging from a few hundred dollars one time fee, to many thousands a month and a percent of sales.
I have a friend who uses one called idevdirect.
