Here's the synopsis of our problem. We sell several mobile applications and sell through our own website/e-commerce platform. Most people originally hit our website from their PC and order through their mobile phone when their trials expire. Because of this, it looks like we have two users because they used two different devices. This makes it very hard for us to tracking a lot of key metrics on things like Google Analytics and Visual Website Optimizer.
Because the user has to download our product by visiting a URL on their phone, we think we may be able to create a unique URL for every visitor and replicate that session/cookie data. Would this solution work with Google Analytics? Are there any other techniques that could solve this issue?
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I have a website that is driving traffic to over 600 other websites. In order to track the traffic that we provide to our partners, we've created a redirection page in between our website and the website we're driving traffic to.
We want to use this redirection website to track information overall, like how much traffic did we refer per day/week/month etc. But also to find out information per partner, since they all sell something different, so we run different marketing campaigns for them. So we want to know the demographics for each of our partners.
I was thinking of setting up a general goal in analytics on the redirect page in order to track the overall information, is that the best way? And what would you suggest for individual partners?
Thank you so much in advance!
Regards,
Molle
Recently I have developed an app on php, which will be running in my workplace local network. The traffic on the Sever(hosted externally) is very large. But the problem is that, since it has to run within local network, the same public IP will be allocated to every user within the network.
Map of the network
Server (Public IP eg. 11.11.11.11) -> Local network users (eg 198.162.1.1).
My application server is has been hosted externally.
Will I be able to run advertisements(adsense) and get paid through it. As the users will always have same public IP.
Note: I am much more concerned about adsense(by google).
I would also like to know the best way to earn through a social networking site other then addsense.
I request you to answer descriptively.Feel free to edit this question for better understanding.Thanks for reading.
Yes, because in your case even google.com will be browsed from local network and so it will also have traffic. Now just don't ask your friends to click on adds in your website.
First, here’s a very brief outline of exactly how AdSense works:
You sign up for AdSense with Google, and, if you are accepted, Google will start placing ads on your web pages automatically.
If someone on your site sees an ad and clicks on it they leave your site.
Google charges the advertiser for the click and shares this money with you. This type of advertising is called Pay Per Click advertising, usually abbreviated to PPC.
The Ads you get on your web pages are usually relevant to your visitor.
With a planned $90 million settlement, Google could soon dispense with a class-action lawsuit involving so-called click fraud.
But while that may be good for Google, it doesn't mean the problem of bogus clicks on online ads--which advertisers have to pay for--is going to disappear anytime soon. A lack of clear standards for determining what is a fraudulent click, or some sort of third-party clearinghouse to monitor the situation, means some advertisers believe they can't do much more than head to the courts when they think there's a problem.
Certainly, Google and Yahoo, which run the two largest pay-per-click advertising networks, say they're addressing the problem. But some click auditing companies still claim that between 20 percent and 35 percent of clicks on Net advertisements are fraudulent.
Unfortunately, there's no easy answer. Some experts say the solution is to have an independent auditor that would use data from the search engines and advertisers to determine in a neutral environment whether clicks are fraudulent.
I repeat, in your case users will even browse google.com or other site, which enables them to know the network type that you have. But make don't click on your own adds which violates their TOS. All the best.
i think it is not possible to run in local network because i should hit the Google adsense server so that it increases your earnings. you can let your Google adsense Script run it doesn't consume more bandwidth.
I'm going to say no.
For a better, more descriptive answer, ask Adsense directly
Possible related questions
Intranet Ads? Same IP, multiple hits
How google adsense detects that the clicks are made from same computer ? Do they check ip addresses ?
Is it legal to add google adsense acount to Local LAN website?
Edit for 1st comment
would you mind giving some conclusion explaining briefly. Can you also give some good alternative to google adsense for a social networking site. I appreciate for help
As all clickouts will be on the same IP "As the users will always have same public IP.", Google will think this is "clickfraud", and you're falsifying authentic clickouts - which you're not, but this is what it will seem like, on Google's end.
Google will first flag your account, and then (most likely, after investigating) close your Adsense account.
Alternatives to Adsense would be;
Infolinks
Kontera
Amazon Associates
BuySellAds
Text Link Ads
Clicksor
Apparently a good choice
Adversal
I've not used any of these personally, and I fetched this list from stream-seo.com
I am building a service like Wix.com, users can build simple mutli-pages website with ease. Every website will be including in a global Google Analytics account with a unique profile, then the tracking code is to be placed in the website pages.
Now, on the website dashboard i want to show the online visitors and the total number of visists for the website for each website separatly, trying to do so i have :
Tried using GAPI (http://code.google.com/p/gapi-google-analytics-php-interface/) but due to Google Analytics major update it doesn't work anymore.
I found Google Core reporting API for Analytics, but i believe it's made for 3rd party applications that accesses GA data for their clients, meaning that the user should have a Google account and GA profile for the website, and the App just connects to the account and retrieves data. And this of course isn't the case here; i can't ask the user to create a Google account and embed the tracking code in the website HTML; else what am i here for ?
Got the picture ? I need the simplest method to do this, no fancy stuff.
PS: Minutes ago i found this: Google Analytics Query Explorer (http://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/explorer/), it's a 3rd party app that builds custom queries for GA and gives you the link, something like that :
https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/data/ga?ids= (the ID) &dimensions=ga%3AvisitCount&metrics=ga%3Avisitors&segment=gaid%3A%3A-1&start-date=2013-02-01&end-date=2013-02-23&max-results=50
Now, trying to access the URL (thinking; this is easy :) ) the respond is a request for login first :
{"error":{"errors":[{"domain":"global","reason":"required","message":"Login Required","locationType":"header","location":"Authorization"}],"code":401,"message":"Login Required"}}
Thanks in advance.
Unless you have fewer than 50 clients this plan is not going to work the way you're asking for. (There is a limit of 50 profiles per account.)
The client will have to make their own GA number and provide it to you as a setting for their website.
In order to display the customers reports on a dashboard on your site you're also going to have to get them to authorize a GA App you create for access.
Background: My websites have international users. I have written reviews for amazon and their products on these sites.
I've been looking for ways to redirect international users from my website links to their local Amazon store while correctly linking to the original product and keeping my affiliate ID intact. I've found a couple of ways which I will list below, but I was wondering if there were any good alternatives that I have missed.
This looks pretty good http://code.stephenmorley.org/php/mapping-visitor-ip-addresses-to-amazon-sites/
and http://petewilliams.info/blog/2009/07/javascript-amazon-associate-link-localiser/
QUESTION: Just to be clear, I'd like to know what methods/tutorials/scripts people are using to redirect international users to their local/relevant amazon store.
You could use something like GeoLite (tutorial on how here) to find their country and then set up an array to cross check their country with wherever the header() function sends them. It would be some work, but you could do it.
I am in the process of developing a PHP application that awards users for supporting indie games. Once my website confirms an indie purchase, it will unlock certain VIP areas of my site.
For example, I would have a link on my website to Minecraft's registration page. Once my referred user signs up and pays for his copy of Minecraft, is there any way for my site to instantly be updated that the user successfully bought a copy?
This isn't specific to Minecraft either. I would need to include many links to other indie developers' purchase pages.
I'm at a loss to where to begin on this, nor even sure if it's technically possible.
One way of doing this is via an API whereby the purchase is made on your site and you communicate with Minecraft on the backend.
Alternatively, affiliate networks like Commission Junction do the hard work of checking where the user came from and whether or not they buy the product.
However, it doesn't look like Minecraft offer either solution, so your only other option is contacting them directly and asking them if they want some kind of marketing partnership with you.
Yes, just ask the user. "Did you buy Minecraft? [yes] [no]"
Isn't it obvious that you need to get a response from the minecraft site to acknowledge a purchase?