Hey hey!
Well, I’m just kinda getting back into the swing of things here at Affiliate Stuff HQ (AKA the dining room in the house where I grew up!). Obviously the old blog posts have been quiet for a wee while what with all my world wide larking around, so I’ve been getting myself all settled in and up to speed with affiliate issues old and new.
I was thinking that the posts in which I publicly answered the questions of people who had e-mailed me (with their permission) had turned out to provide some really pertinent answers for newbie / wannabe affiliates desperately trying to make sense of the huge amounts of affiliate information which is broadcast on all freqencies. Researching and understanding the mystic art of affiliate marketing, and more importantly separating the internet wheat from the chaff, can be hugely confusing.
So, with that in mind I’ve popped all the previous posts into a new category appropriately named “Ask Kirsty“. I’m now chucking the floor open to anyone who wants to ask me a wee question. I’ll answer it on the condition that you know I’ll publish it on my blog. Obviously if I get two similar questions I’ll sort of group them together.
Ask away guys! There’s a Contact Form with your name on it! 
October 18th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Hi Kirsty,
Thanks for your quick response yesterday! I have decided to jump right in and made a quick wordpress page (based on your suggestions) and made a quick campaign if only to learn everything hands on. I made my daily budget really low at $10/day but I’m already started to understand campaigns and how the process works from a different perspective and I’m thinking of it as $10/day for my AM education!!
My question is…I was wondering how you go about actually tracking the clicks of a single user so you can tell which clicks are converting into clicks on my actual affiliate links and which aren’t.
For example, I’m looking at my VERY FIRST adWords Campaign summary and looking at my CJ account profile. Say 20 people clicked on my Google Ad in response to “blue widgets” search query and 10 people clicked on my ad after searching “cheap widgets.”
And then CJ is saying that there were 10 clicks on my ad on my page. How do I know which people clicked on my ad? Were all 10 clicks from “cheap widgets”? Was it split 5 and 5 from each search term?
Sorry if you’ve covered this but I haven’t seen it..
Thanks!
Matt
P.S. - Of course you can use this on your blog!