How can I track a sale from an ad?

[cineflare]

I am paying someone $500 a month to place an ad on a high traffic site. How can I track who is buying once they click through this ad?



Thanks!



Tracey

[cineflare]

Okay...so for anyone looking at this, I am going to answer my own question. I signed up for my own affiliate program using a different email address. Then I edited my new account info so that I would get 0% commisions. Then i created a short link to paste into the ad. So now when someone clicks that ad it will re-direct to the new ejunkie affiliate code which in turn goes to the page I have specified. When someone buys a product using that ad it will show up in my ejunkie affiliate sales as a sale made from my new account. I can easily filter it and see how many sales came from that ad.

[E-junkie_Monster]

Hello,



That is one way to do it, anyone coming through the link you provide for the ad will be credited to your own affiliate account for easy tracking.



Other options are to provide a specific discount code with the ad, you can see which purchases included that discount in your transaction logs.



Another way to track sales coming in from a specific location is to use a slightly customized cart/buy now button. You can add in an extra variable that will be tracked from an order, see the section on passing a variable for a full order here:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.custom.purchase-buttons.htm#custom



That would allow you to set up multiple sales pages and see which sales are coming in from which page, for example if you code in the custom variable "SALE1" into the buttons on a particular page, then all the sales that result from those buttons will include "SALE1" in your transaction logs.