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organic traffic conversion tracking

without full javascript

         

stepper

9:34 am on May 13, 2008 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Anyone know of a tool/software that allows you to track ecommerce conversions of organic traffic without full reliance on javascript i.e. cookie based?

We would use analytics normally but the ecommerce provider has an issue where we can't put javascript on all of the shopping cart pages (i.e. we can put it on 4 out of the 7 pages...don't ask), so the analytics flow is broken.

We can successfully track PPC conversions via adwords conversion tracking because it uses cookies and we can still place the javascript on the 'thankyou' page

any ideas? thanks in advance

cabowabo

4:51 am on May 14, 2008 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



What about a tracking pixel? Use this along with your log files and it won't be pretty, but you can track.

stepper

7:08 am on May 14, 2008 (gmt 0)

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thanks cabowabo - is there anything that does that for me? The problem as I understand is that the shopping cart pages are on a 3rd party domain so I can see the path of a user on the main site but then I have no idea which serp keyword they came from when they arrive on the 3rd party thankyou page without any sort of session - unless its a cookie I guess?

cabowabo

11:04 am on Jun 9, 2008 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



If the pages are from a third party there isn't anything that I know you can do. Hopefully someone else who knows more will chime in.