Comments on: How To Track Your Keywords With PHP & SUBID’s

By: HeightWeight Chart

HeightWeight Chart — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:01:57 +0000

What if you are using a htaccess redirect on your affiliate links? Where do you place the php tracking code? For example, a link on my landing page is example.com/go/affiliatewebsite but in that folder is a redirect using my affiliate link. Should the code be like this: Get Free Widgets Here Or should it be in the htaccess file?

By: HeightWeight Chart

HeightWeight Chart — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:01:32 +0000

Excellent information that you posted.Thanks for the ideas and tips.

By: EID

EID — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:27:59 +0000

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By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:00:49 +0000

I haven't considered tracking the keyword in this way but it makes sense. I track the site and it is helpful to know where the conversions are coming from. But more data would be helpful.

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By: Mid

Mid — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:04:56 +0000

Thanks Lee

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:29:15 +0000

One thing I'd note, and this is being paranoid, if you really don't want your keywords stolen, when you use md5 use a salt too. With standard md5, a reverse lookup would be pretty easy and probably spit out your keywords. Good point though Lee =]

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:23:23 +0000

If you want to encrypt your keywords so that the affiliate network can't see them (there are some dishonest ones out there who will steal your keywords), you can send an md5 encrypted version your keyword before sending it. You'll also have to track/record every unencrypted keyword that gets encrypted (you will need this for decryption in the next step). Then, when you are viewing your subids that get sales, it will be an md5 hash. To find out what keyword this was, you'll have to loop through all your keywords that you should have tracked/recorded (like I mentioned above), and compare the md5 value of it to your md5 subid. When they match up, that's your keyword that got you the sale. You have to do it this way because md5 is one-way encryption. This would be the most secure way to make sure nobody knows your keywords but you!

Enjoy

By: Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:18:43 +0000

I second that..

No need for them to see what converts for me :=)..

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:57:05 +0000

Hopefully soon =] Glad you enjoyed it, the prettier URL technique is pretty quick so I'll probably post it as a quick tip rather than an in depth tutorial! Cheers, Dan.