Visitor Tracker

[rightliner]

Ok, here's what I need to be able to do, and sure hope somebody can help me.
I'm looking to track the following: I want to be able to track pay-per-clicks into my site (by keyword & engine) then track the activity on my website, and then especially track if they click on one of my google adsense ads or affiliate links. I want each specific visitor activity from start (where they came from) to finish (if they left clicking on an add or affiliate link)

I want to do this to make sure I'm paying for the right keywords... Can anyone tell me if and how I can do this? Any free tracking services?

thanks,

[moneymancn]

hypertracker works fine for us for tracking the ppc campaign.
Tracking activity on your site would depend on what info you want!
I am not sure about the "free" bit as we figure that its worth paying for the correct info and a false economy to always go for free stuff
If you want "non free" stuff sticky me(no affiliations etc BTW)
MM

[rightliner]

Would hypertracker allow me to trace a visitor: from their keyword search they came to me by, to an outside ad or affiliate link they went to?

I'm trialing hitslink.com, and although they seemed to indicate they could do it, I'm not seeing the details i need.

Basically fining out this details will tell me exactly which keywords are worth buying, and which ones to drop.

thanks again... I'll be watching for your reply!

Pat

[moneymancn]

< Would hypertracker allow me to trace a visitor: from their keyword search they came to me by, to an outside ad or affiliate link they went to?
I'm trialing hitslink.com, and although they seemed to indicate they could do it, I'm not seeing the details i need.

Basically fining out this details will tell me exactly which keywords are worth buying, and which ones to drop. >
We use it for ppc tracking only so I suggest you check the affiliate angle non their website faq's
It is great for evaluating and eliminating the non performing kw's though!It saved us a bundle and we now have 3 x as many keywords.
MM

[Warren]

WIth Hitslink you need to have the ecommerce edition.

You don't need to set up refer codes in the Hitslink system but rather, just put the tracking on the URL. It will automatically append it to your list of campaigns.

Hitslink (by default) uses the "?source=x" code. However you can add others (i.e. "?id=x".

To see your campaigns, you then simply click on the Ecommerce section and look at activity summary.

You must also have set up the Ecommerce section properly to work i.e. the additional tracking on the order confirmation page. This tells Hitlinks that an order has been sucessful.

[chrisnrae]

There is a program I ran across that claims to be able to track affiliate sales, all the way through to the thank you for your order page of the merchant. I believe it worked through some form of cloaking or something. I am NOT sure. I am not a techie gal ;). I know they had some issues at first, but released an updated version that supposedly fixed the early issues. I have not used this service - friendly disclaimer - so I have no idea if it is good, bad, whatever.

I have no idea if I can list the URL here though, so sticky me if you want the site addy to check it out. But again, I have no personal experience with this program, so it would be explore at your own risk ;).