Comments on: Affiliate Quick Tips – Microsoft Excel Concatenation

By: Mike...

Mike... — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:53:44 +0000

Hi Kirsty,

I wonder if you have used “ASAP Utilities”, an excel plugin that is must for everyone that usually play around with datafeed in excel. It saves hell lot of time and helps people poor with excel formulas.

A must affiliate tool.

Cheers,
Mike..

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:12:57 +0000

LOL, well you could be Marc. That said, it would provide you with some fascinating data about exactly what was converting!

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:44:13 +0000

Hi Kirsty,

Yes thats what I mean. Ok I see. Thanks.
I am trying to use a system now that passes through the exact KW that was typed. So even if I am bidding on ‘potato’ (phrase match) but the person types in ‘potato uk now’ then this exact phrase will be passed along through to the network.

Just wondering if i am taking it oo far and getting ahead of myself here.

thanks again.
Marc

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:50:54 +0000

Hi Marc, Not sure what you mean… do you mean do I create a unique tracking ID for every keyword which is passed into the network system? If so, I do this using the concatenate function also. If that’s not what you mean… my sincere apologies for being a thicko!!

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:39:11 +0000

Hi Kirsty,

Thanks. I know you will be using the subid/clickref tracking from the networks, but what I mean is do you use some special tool/system to insert unique subid’s for each kw?

Thanks again,
Marc

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:37:00 +0000

@Marc – I don’t use any custom tracking, just the networks’ in-house tools.

@Lee – yeah, exactly!

@ Ed & Carl, thanks for adding your own tips they enrich the post. Anyone else with their own info to add, please feel free!!

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:39:18 +0000

This will also work in OpenOffice 3.0, for those who haven’t tried it or use it-give it a go!

This will do pretty much anything that Excel can do and can also run Excel macros now too(just pop Option VBASupport 1 in front of your pasted Excel macro)

I almost forgot- it’s FREE
http://www.openoffice.org/

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:12:41 +0000

Hi Kirsty!

Great post! If you combine this with AdWord’s Editor, you’ve got a sort of a poor affiliate’s SpeedPPC!

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:57:04 +0000

You can also use the & character for concatenation, so instead of:
=concatenate(B1,” “,C1,” “,D1)
you could use:
=B1 & ” ” & C1 & ” ” & D1

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:44:04 +0000

Hi Kirsty,

Yes this is very useful. I also saw that seobook.com has a freee toll that will do this for you as well. Will even put it into exact/phrase match for you as well.

I just wanted to ask a generalt question (not sure if you want to answer though).
As regards kw tracking, do you use your own bespoke tracking tool or do you use an off the shelf solution?

many thanks,
Marc