How track natural traffic & pay traffic with same landing page (16)

Hi,

I've a main website with dating website listing and I wanted to track all of my traffic, but How I can do this ?
Because I've 3 types of traffic :

1. Bing ADS
2. Adwords
3. Natural

If "natural" traffic sends you refs - make an .js script or simple html with help of php that will include iframe with Voluum link in the background ( add source url) when ref is different than Voluum that means its natural and will end loop of iframes.

I think that would work but you gotta test

use a proper tracking system like p202 or cpvlab or Voluum etc..

Not quite sure what your current setup is but what's wrong with just using Voluum?

The point of the tracking system is that there is no problem with sending traffic from multiple sources as long as the come via a campaign link...

In this way the lander CTA URL is always http://........./click and Voluum knows what campaign people came through, so can redirect accordingly.

You just need to make a campaign per traffic source, which Voluum forces you to do...

I think what he's referring to is being able to track organic traffic as well.

If organic visitors arrive directly to his landing page and click the CTA, the http://yourid.trackvoluum.com/click/ link will lead to a 400 error.

I've thought about this myself and don't think there's a way to do it with Voluum. I asked Tom about this a while ago and he told me that Thrive would not break when someone clicked through the landing page that hadn't originally arrived via a tracking link, although I'm not sure if Thrive will track be able to track them.

Oh Lol man it must be a hot day I saw "natural" and though what traffic source is that? Is it a media buying network? I'm used to seeing organic (chemist heh) so confused myself.

There is an easy way to do this.

Put a code on the page that checks for a Voluum ID/cookie or Voluum data in the URL and then change the CTA link code accordingly.

Easy to do with PHP, not sure how to do it with JS as I'm a JS nooblet.

It is a situation where you'll have to intervene on the front end.

Originally Posted by zeno

Oh Lol man it must be a hot day I saw "natural" and though what traffic source is that? Is it a media buying network? I'm used to seeing organic (chemist heh) so confused myself.

There is an easy way to do this.

Put a code on the page that checks for a Voluum ID/cookie or Voluum data in the URL and then change the CTA link code accordingly.

Easy to do with PHP, not sure how to do it with JS as I'm a JS nooblet.

It is a situation where you'll have to intervene on the front end.

You wouldn't be able to read third party cookie set by Voluum and the referrer might not be set, so using URL parameters is better.
So if your landing page is example.com/index.php, you would redirect Bing Ads campaign visitors to example.com/index.php?source=bing and Adwords campaign visitors to example.com/index.php?source=adwords
For everything else, you would link to a third campaign.
You could also setup a custom variable for the third campaign and pass referrer to Voluum to see where are the "converting natural visitors" coming from.

<?php
if($_GET['source'] == 'bing') {
	$link = 'http://xxxxx.trackvoluum.com/click';
}
else if($_GET['source'] == 'adwords') {
	$link = 'http://xxxxx.trackvoluum.com/click';
}
else {
	$ref = urlencode($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']); // get referrer
	$link = 'http://xxxxx.trackvoluum.com/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx?ref=' . $ref; // pass referrer to Voluum
}
?>

Thrive can do this pretty easily.

1) Create a new campaign just for the organic traffic. Set whatever offer you want as direct link for this campaign.

2) Create a new offer and use that campaign's URL as the offer URL

3) Set the default offer for the landing page (it's a setting you can add for that landing page) to that new offer you just created

4) Enjoy. All organic landing page clicks on the landing page will be tracked in the new campaign. All other traffic from the traffic sources will proceed as normal.

No coding required.

Originally Posted by archieaff

You wouldn't be able to read third party cookie set by Voluum and the referrer might not be set, so using URL parameters is better.
So if your landing page is example.com/index.php, you would redirect Bing Ads campaign visitors to example.com/index.php?source=bing and Adwords campaign visitors to example.com/index.php?source=adwords
For everything else, you would link to a third campaign.
You could also setup a custom variable for the third campaign and pass referrer to Voluum to see where are the "converting natural visitors" coming from.

Code:

<?php
if($_GET['source'] == 'bing') {
    $link = 'http://xxxxx.trackvoluum.com/click';
}
else if($_GET['source'] == 'adwords') {
    $link = 'http://xxxxx.trackvoluum.com/click';
}
else {
    $ref = urlencode($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']); // get referrer
    $link = 'http://xxxxx.trackvoluum.com/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx?ref=' . $ref; // pass referrer to Voluum
}
?>

Originally Posted by ted_tikoun

I will try that but some bing ADS traffic some is coming from Yahoo and other referrer.

I suppose you could also add a few lines of PHP to check if voluumdata is in the URL and therefore not null, e.g. if isset($_GET['voluumdata']){do stuff}

Originally Posted by ffclogin

Thrive can do this pretty easily.

1) Create a new campaign just for the organic traffic. Set whatever offer you want as direct link for this campaign.

2) Create a new offer and use that campaign's URL as the offer URL

3) Set the default offer for the landing page (it's a setting you can add for that landing page) to that new offer you just created

4) Enjoy. All organic landing page clicks on the landing page will be tracked in the new campaign. All other traffic from the traffic sources will proceed as normal.

No coding required.

im not familiar with Voluum, but on p202 or cpvlab, its pretty easy to do, standard stuff.

a unique tracking link for each traffic source is used.. any traffic that arrived that wasnt delivered via one of those assigned links obviously came from direct linking

Originally Posted by servandosilva

If search traffic is coming directly to the landing page (not trough a tracker) because the page is ranked on search engines, I don't think this is going to work.

Hi there,

I have few questions to ask about Voluum.

1: So is there any way for me to send my organic traffic visitors (eg:from search engine) to my offer page. I saw some of my pages ranked on 1st page, but without going through Voluum, it will be invalid clicks.

2: Will voluum be able to handle landing page sequence, eg: prelander-final lander- offer page?

Thanks