Cool Adwords Trick
If you're an avid Google Adwords user like I am, then you probably get frustrated with it sometimes. I don't know about you but I get especially frustrated when I can't figure out exactly what users typed to pull up my ads and even though I have tracking turned on, I still don't know what actual terms converted into sales for me.
That was until today, my friends, when I stumbled on this post at Apollo SEM titled "NUDE: AdWords Keyword Data Exposed With Google Analytics!"
This was posted back in December of 2007, so if this is old news to you I apologize, but it's news to me and I felt it was worthy of sharing with you fine people. At the very least, it deserves a Sphinn.
One thing I wanted to point out was that they stated their source at the bottom of the post, like so-
Our source for learning and applying this secret to our client accounts and our own accounts comes from a November 2007 blog post by the GA-Experts. Thank you, GA-Experts, for sharing this secret with us!
Regardless, it's a great bit of knowledge to have
You're welcome.
January 29th, 2008 at 3:59 am
Hey Scott, I also found that link recently and was very happy about it. I set everything up and then found this post: http://www.apollosem.org/google-you-suck-and-i-will-find-another-way/
Basically Google disabled this feature and that trick doesn’t work anymore.
So I just bought a hosted solution for tracking to keyword level - affedit.com (i’m not affiliated with them in any way). Just started using it, as for $30 bucks it’s not bad and gets the job done. I looked into the Keyword Radar and Affiliate Radar but I didn’t like the price and that everything is hosted on their servers. I guess this one is harder to setup and manage and has less features than the previous tools but for basic kw tracking it’s working for me. Hope that helps.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:19 am
@Karolis: Interesting. Are you sure it doesn’t work?
January 29th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Actually I haven’t tried it myself. I just read on the same blog that the trick stopped working because google made some changes. So I just moved to find another solution. But if it works for you, then let me know.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:36 am
@Karolis: Yeah, I’ll definitely test it out. Thanks for your input. Quick to the punch. :]
February 13th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Scott,
Love the blog. I found it through a comment link on JonathanVolk.com Here is the fix:
http://www.semvironment.com/adwordsanalytics-keyword-data-fix-thanks-jeff/
cheers,
Pete
February 13th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
@Big Pete: Thanks, glad to hear it. And thanks for the fix. I’ll check into it. :]