Google adsense reference

Question

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 comes through clicking each ad.

The client uses Drupal PHP site.

Is there a possibility to track incoming users who comes through google ads?

Answer 1

Use Google Analytics. From the Features page:

Integrated with AdWords and AdSense

Optimize your AdWords performance with post-click data on your keywords, search queries, match type and more. AdSense reports show publishers which site content generates the most revenue.

Answer 2

You can add arguments to the urls used in the adds:

http://example.com

changed to

http://example.com?google=ad123

You can then in your Drupal check for the presence of the google argument in the $_REQUEST variable and act accordingly. This should be done in hook_boot.

Answer 3

http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerGuide.html

You may use events, and you may add custom parameters to them, but they didn't work for me on the first shot and i gave up. If you figure out how to use them please post a story on how you did that:)