Tracking Individual Keywords

Affiliate Program Tracking

[websiteguy]

I have a site that promotes an affiliate product. I was wondering if it was possible to automatically change the subids for the affiliate links on my site depending on the keyword they used to get to the site through my PPC campaigns. I don't want to create a separate page for each keyword as that would be 1000's and 1000's of pages and take forever. I appreciate any help or alternative ways to track individual keywords.

[the_nerd]

yes, you can - in about 70% of all cases.

e.g. Google send this: [google.com...]

as part of the http-referer string. (if some safety stuff on the client desktop strips out this referer, you don't see anything)

Now all you have to do is extract the keywords from the referer string and act accordingly (server-side)