PPC Keyword Tracker WordPress Plug-in for Affiliate Marketers

UPDATE: v2.0 is here complete with SEO keyword tracking! Now you can see which organic keywords (Google, Bing, Yahoo and more) and PPC keywords are leading to your affiliate sales/commissions. NEW PRICE! Now $47 $19.95. Take a look at all of the features.

In This Post:

1. Introduction to the Plug-in
2. Images – Take a Look
3. Video – How the PPC Keyword Tracker WordPress Plug-in Works
4. A Super Affiliate’s Testimonial
5. The Plug-in’s Main Features
6. Confirmed to Work with These Affiliate Networks
7. Why did I create the PPC Keyword Tracker?
8. View all license types & download instantly ».

I am very stoked to be able to introduce you to my new WordPress plug-in called the PPC Keyword Tracker.

Until my WordPress plug-in became available, there was no easy inexpensive way for an affiliate marketer using Pay Per Click advertising and WordPress–to promote affiliate offers–to know what keywords they were bidding on were actually generating conversions/sales. With my PPC Keyword Tracker plug-in for WordPress you will know.

This plug-in is ideal for use with major PPC advertising platforms like Google AdWords and most affiliate networks.

And, MOST IMPORTANTLY my plug-in automatically stores your keywords, anonymizes then passes them as a unique Tracking ID to a Merchants’ affiliate sales tracking software. Now, you will know exactly which keywords are generating sales.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Each keyword that is recognized by the plug-in is automatically assigned a correlating Tracking ID, which is viewable in the Keyword Anonymizer Report. Use this report to see which keywords are generating sales!

TIP 1:Try using my plug-in with campaigns or offers you are running that use a hard-coded subid or campaign id.

Currently, the PPC Keyword Tracker WordPress plug-in can store, cloak and anonymize keywords associated with the following types of tracking IDs:

• affiliate subIDs (sid)
• tracking IDs (tid)
• campaign IDs (cid)
• custom tracking variables
• or create your own…

BONUS: I truly believe that my plug-in’s ability to dynamically cloak and anonymize your PPC keywords is one of it’s strongest features. In effect, your merchants won’t get to take advantage of your hard work!

Example of a Cloaked & Anonymized Keyword:

From: http://www.yourdomainname.com/?tid=teeth-whitening
To: http://www.yourdomainname.com/?tid=5

You can see that the keyword “teeth whitening” has been cloaked with the anonymized variable “5.” This number 5 is what gets dynamically passed through your affiliate URL to a merchants’ affiliate tracking software.

PPC Keyword Tracker Plug-in Images v2.0

Here are a few images showcasing the main features of my PPC Keyword Tracker plug-in to help you see how awesome and easy it is to use.

Although the plug-in should work with virtually any affiliate network offering affiliate subid tracking and reporting, I have already confirmed the PPC Keyword Tracker plug-in to work with these affiliate networks

• Clickbank (Confirmed)
• Networks using Direct Track Tracking (Confirmed)
• Neverblue (Confirmed)
• Epic Direct / Azoogle (Confirmed)
• Commission Junction (Confirmed)*
• Shareasale (Confirmed)

*NOTE: CJ.com only displays SID (subid) when a purchase is made. I think that’s lame, but it is what it is.

Here are a few images showing some of my anonymized tracking IDs recorded by the affiliate reporting software of Major Affiliate Networks: Clickbank, Share-a-Sale, Epic (formerly Azoogle) and Neverblue.

CLICKBANK

SHARE-A-SALE

EPIC (formerly AZOOGLE)

NEVERBLUE

To be perfectly clear, I think it is worth repeating that the anonymized version of your keywords (tracking ID) is what a merchants’ affiliate tracking software will credit with an associated sale. Thus, you’ll know which keywords, tracking IDs and campaigns are generating sales. Now armed with this information, you will FINALLY be able to truly optimize your PPC campaigns down to the keyword level.

Who wants to spend money on keywords and creatives that do not generate sales? Not me!

Scratching your head? Watch the video and it will all make sense.

How the PPC Keyword Tracker WordPress plug-in Works (Updated – 08/24/10)

If you will be using my plug-in to track you Google AdWords traffic, please be sure to review the correct way to write a destination URL that passes keywords (search queries). TIP: Click on See an example.

“Being able to track my campaigns is an absolute must no matter what traffic source I’m using. Having moved over to WordPress I immediately ran into problems. Certain themes had to be edited a certain way and hacking the code everytime I installed a new site just to pass tracking data became time consuming and costly. What Eric has managed to do is not only solve this problem but has also created a cool way to rotate and split test merchant pages on the back end.

I’m a split test junkie and being able to finally have a simple yet effective way of doing this through WordPress was huge for me. I can pass whatever tracking variables I like and best of all my keywords are “anonymized” so the affiliate network cannot steal my best converting keywords. Matching them up from within the plugin’s reporting features is a breeze so I am finally saving myself some time to concentrate on other areas of my business. Eric’s Keyword Tracker is a must have for anyone driving paid traffic through WordPress … period.”

- Tom Page : Affiliate Marketer

The PPC Keyword Tracker Plug-in’s main features include:

LICENSE TYPE	PRICE	BUY
Free License Instant Download	$0
Unlimited License (v2.0) Instant Download	$47 New Price!!! $19.95
One time fee, no subscription or re-billing. All future updates included. Secure Payments Accepted by Clickbank:

Why did I create the PPC Keyword Tracker WordPress plug-in?

In early 2009 I created a WordPress-based blog and planned to use Google AdWords to buy some traffic to test the blog’s main offer (an e-book). Little did I know that trying to track the keywords I was paying for using a WordPress-based blog was going to be such a nightmare. I literally spent 6 – 9 months looking for such a plug-in!

I truly believed that any plug-in I found would have to be easy to use, automatically capture tracking IDs and associated keywords, store them and cloak and append an anonymized variable (tracking ID) to my affiliate URL so I would know which keywords were generating sales and the merchant would not. Who wants to pay for PPC keywords that don’t convert?

At any rate, I was about to give up looking and just pay somebody to build such a plug-in for me. That’s about when I came across a search engine ranking that looked promising. And it was!

It was a blog ran by a really nice and helpful guy named Jonathan Boettcher. He had a plug-in called the URL Rotator (with Tracking) Beta, which seemed close to what I was looking for. Thus, I downloaded and installed it.

I tested the plug-in for a few days, which I found to be quite easy. And, it was this testing of Jonathan’s URL Rotator plug-in that provided further validation for a few additional features I thought might make this a more complete option for myself and potentially affiliate marketers.

Following, after a bit of additional brainstorming and a few discussions with a super affiliate friend of mine, I decided it was time to have my own WordPress plug-in built… and the PPC Keyword Tracker was born.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions.