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Overture/Yahoo & Google PPC referral tracking

Author
5 Sep 2006 6:37 PM
Ben Fidge
Hi

My customer has signed up for Yahoo/Overture and Google PPC (Pay Per Click)
and I need to be able to track what sessions are referred via them. It
appears that referrals from Yahoo/Overture pass certain parameters in the
querystring such as "OVRAW" and "OVKEY". Does anyone know if this can be
100% relied upon or is there a better way of achieving what I want to do?

My customer also signs up for Google Adwords and I could do with being able
to reliably determine which referrals come from where if possible.

Any advice most gratefully received.

Ben

Author
5 Sep 2006 7:10 PM
Winista
I think all advertisers allow the site to specify a landing page for the ad.
This is usually the way to track the referals.

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"Ben Fidge" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> My customer has signed up for Yahoo/Overture and Google PPC (Pay Per
> Click) and I need to be able to track what sessions are referred via them.
> It appears that referrals from Yahoo/Overture pass certain parameters in
> the querystring such as "OVRAW" and "OVKEY". Does anyone know if this can
> be 100% relied upon or is there a better way of achieving what I want to
> do?
>
> My customer also signs up for Google Adwords and I could do with being
> able to reliably determine which referrals come from where if possible.
>
> Any advice most gratefully received.
>
> Ben
>
>
>
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Author
5 Sep 2006 8:45 PM
Ben Fidge
Hi Winista

Thanks for your response. Can you elaborate on this further please.

Ben


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"Winista" <wini***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I think all advertisers allow the site to specify a landing page for the
>ad. This is usually the way to track the referals.
>
> "Ben Fidge" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:OS%23TYrR0GHA.4580@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Hi
>>
>> My customer has signed up for Yahoo/Overture and Google PPC (Pay Per
>> Click) and I need to be able to track what sessions are referred via
>> them. It appears that referrals from Yahoo/Overture pass certain
>> parameters in the querystring such as "OVRAW" and "OVKEY". Does anyone
>> know if this can be 100% relied upon or is there a better way of
>> achieving what I want to do?
>>
>> My customer also signs up for Google Adwords and I could do with being
>> able to reliably determine which referrals come from where if possible.
>>
>> Any advice most gratefully received.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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