{"id":523,"date":"2011-11-19T02:44:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T02:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-affiliate\/?p=523"},"modified":"2015-03-04T06:38:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T06:38:50","slug":"track-online-ad-conversion-with-the-wp-affiliate-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-affiliate\/track-online-ad-conversion-with-the-wp-affiliate-software-523","title":{"rendered":"Track Online Ad Conversion with the WP Affiliate Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re advertising your product or lead capture pages via text link, banner ads, PPC networks and email marketing, you need a conversion tracking software to track exactly where the sales and leads are coming from. This allows you to efficiently manage your ad campains without losing a lot of money on low performing ads.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"WordPress affiliate plugin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/?p=1474\" target=\"_blank\">affiliate platform plugin<\/a> can be used to measure the number of visitors you are getting from a particular ad and measure the true conversion rate of each ad campaign.<\/p>\n<h2>How to Track Online Ad Conversion<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> Create a dummy affiliate account for yourself (you can create as many affiliate user account you want for yourself).<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nLet us assume the \"Affiliate ID\" of this account is \"ad_grp1\" for this example\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> Create an affiliate link\u00a0pointing to your landing page using this newly created affiliate account. For example:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.your-domain-name.com\/your-landing-page?ap_id=ad_grp1\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Step 3<\/strong>: When placing your ad on the external site or PPC network, use the link created in step 2 as the target page URL.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nThis will ensure that every time a visitor comes to your site clicking on that ad, the plugin will record the click and you will be able to see how many clicks you got for the \"ad_grp1\" affiliate.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Step 4:<\/strong> Integrate the affiliate plugin with an\u00a0eCommerce\u00a0or lead capture software (see the &#8220;<a title=\"WP Affiliate Platform integration options\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-affiliate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Integration Options<\/a>&#8221; section in the documentation).<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nThis will ensure that every time a visitor comes to your site following that ad (created in step 3) and makes a\u00a0purchase\u00a0or fills in a lead capture form, it will track that conversion.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Now, you will have insight into exactly how many visitors are coming through that ad and converting. 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