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Voluum and Adwords (7)

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Hi,

My destination URL in Adwords is http://mydomain.com/games.php?keyword={keyword}
games.php redirects to my Voluum tracking link: http://voluumdomain.com/35bddcff-cb2c-4226-a953-eef82f231326?keyword={keyword}
In Voluum, I have setup Adwords as a traffic source and in Custom Variable 1, I entered Parameter = keyword, Placeholder = {keyword} and Name = keyword

However, the keywords are not being tracked. When I go to Report -->Variable V1, it just shows {keyword} instead of the actual keyword.
Everything else is working fine. Clickids are being passed to the affiliate network and conversions are also being properly tracked by voluum.

ps. Voluum support replied with the following:

"your traffic source (Adwords) should pass the actual keyword in the postback url. Thats why this parameter (keyword) should be added to your postback url in your traffic source setup."

which doesn't make any sense to me because as far as I know, postback url is for sending conversion data from voluum back to the traffic source. Here, I am trying to get the keyword from the traffic source to show up in my voluum reports.

Please let me know how I can pass keywords from Adwords.

Thanks

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What it looks like is that you're not grabbing the values from the request header parameters and appending them to your tracking link. So on your redirect page put this code:

<?php

extract($_REQUEST);
header( 'Location: http://yourlander.com/?keyword='.$keyword ) ;

?>

should do the trick

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Hi buttonedup, thanks for your reply. Is there any way to do this without using header in php as I am using noipfraud and it messes up the redirect.

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I don't use noipfraud so I'm not sure... but possibly with javascript window.location = ""

I'm not a programmer, so I don't know... @zeno or @caurmen might have a solution for that though!

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Hmm, I also don't know noipfraud. Why does header() screw up the redirect?

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So... is games.php a noipfraud script? Talk to them... it should be trivial to pass this kind of stuff through - I mean, a cloaker should be able to do this right?

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thanks for the reply guys. I'll talk to the noipfraud team about this.

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