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Questions tagged [pay-per-click]

Pay per click is an internet advertising model. If you are asking about this, your question *probably* belongs on webmasters.stackexchange.com.

General Pay per click (PPC) questions, that are not specifically about programming, should be asked on the Pro Webmasters site.

Otherwise, see the Wikipedia entry for Pay per click.

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Open-source software like Pay-Per-Click, Google Adwords?

Does anyone know if there is an open source alternative to the software that Google Adwords uses? I need to make my own ad-management system that can push out ads and gather CPI/PPC analytics. Has anyone stumbled across such a thing?
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google / cpc sessions show as (not set) / (not set) in Source / Medium report of Google Analytics

I started a new PPC campaign this month and all my google /cpc sessions are recorded as (not set) / (not set) in Source / Medium report. When you click a ppc ad, you can see gclid in the address bar and in real time reporting it shows correctly as…
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Is our PPC management agency using a robot?

We outsource the management of our Google AdWords account. Although we understand the interface ourselves, we just don't have the time to manage it, and thought we might also benefit from a pro's added experience. However, looking at the My Change…
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Tracking clicks on rails resources by resource attributes

I've got a rails 3 app that has ads/specials that are posted on the site by vendors. All of this content is within my site, traffic is not redirected to any external site. I'm trying to institute a pay-per-click system whereby vendors pay per click…
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Stopping bots from registering on pay per click?

I'm writing a pay per click function on my site. It's fairly easy to add a link on a button: http://www.mysite.com/advertLink?id=123 I could pick up the ID and redirect accordingly. But how do I stop Google and other bots from "clicking" on this…
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How do you attribute a sale to PPC if a visitor comes from PPC but then returns to buy through another medium?

On an e-commerce site, how do you attribute a sale to PPC if a visitor comes from PPC but then returns to buy through another medium? Can we use cookies and if so how do we install this? What software could track this kind of conversion scenario?
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Indicate to Google that two websites are two separate companies

I currently build two websites for two different companies. Each company runs PPC campaigns from these web sites. If I use the same common files to build the two websites, would Google detect them as the same company? That's something I don't…
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How to recover? Suspended google Adwords account

Account was suspended on 23 jan (saying i have done Misrepresentation) after follow ups, 23 feb they sent email saying (suspicious behaviour in the payment activity of this or your other AdWords accounts) later they sent email saying (We’ve…
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Google Analytics - What is the percentage of total for?

I was tracking my PPC ads in Google Analytics via AdWords acquisition and found out that the cost is $3,039.93. However, I realized that it was only the 98.69% of $3,080.15. Now, what do you think is the reason why Google only gets a percentage of…
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Google adsense reference

My client has a Google Adsense account and one ad-campaign with several ads under it. The client needs to identify the incoming users who come through clicking each ad. The client uses Drupal PHP site. Is there a possibility to track incoming users…
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Track number of user redirected via google ads

Is there any way to check an user is redirected to my site via Google Ads? I want to track number of user who are redirected via Google Ads and their activities. I have Google Analytics, Adword added already to my website. I can track users on my…
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how to find the adwords' click locations & timings

I've gone through the google/adwords dashboard again & again and found no means to figure out where exactly does the clicks happened and at what times. I need to know the location of clicks (if possible city/ip) and the time of clicks. I believe…
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Call multiple controller methods on link_to click

I'm working on getting a pay per click system running on my app, and I've been able to get some help in setting up the framework here on SO. Here's what I've got so far: class Click < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :deal belongs_to…
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Adwords Contact Form Tracking

We have a senario whereby which we are tracking a contact forms submission via Adwords Conversion tracking code and assigning that as a PPC conversion. This is a lead generation website; therefore the issue coming to light is that they have good SEO…
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Dynamic Text replacement for PPC Campaigns

Stumbled across this: http://get.unbounce.com/dynamic-text-replacement/ Seems to be a wysiwg landing page creator. So I was just wondering if it's possible to do Dynamic Text replacement normally? Pretty much just need 1 Landing page that will have…
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