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Hello all!
This is my first post in the forums, so have mercy on me if something like this is posted elsewhere, I did look but couldn't find anything.
So I just recently went through the process of overhauling our website as well getting the .3dcartstores out of our http:// URLs, and am currently setting up our PPC campaigns within Google Adwords. I was wondering if there is any way to set up individual product categories that I can link to as a landing page for PPC traffic. I know that Google Analytics can give me all of the information I need, but I like to have a 'hard-wired' way to know where sales are coming from.
An example of this would go like this:
1. Someone searches keyword that triggers my ad.
2. Ad copy says 'Organization X Product type A variants, click here!" (not the real copy, no worries!)
3. Destination URL lands them at a category page that includes the variants of a certain product type, like Organization X flags.
4. The category would include copies of product listings, but the ID/SKUs would include a (PPC) so when the order comes through I know it came from our paid search campaign.
5. Here's the kicker: I want to be able to display multiple products on the landing page like a category, but be able to hide the category from organic traffic so I don't skew my metrics.
Right now I have been able to effectively hide an individual product from organic traffic by linking to it and making it 'non-searchable', but I haven't been able to make an entire category non-searchable. A second thought was to make a subcategory from the top level category and hide it, then a sub-subcategory and have that unhidden. I couldn't get this to work. Again, I know Google Analytics could give me all of this information no problem, but would like to find a 'hard-wired' workaround for the time being.
Thank you in advance, any help is appreciated!
This is my first post in the forums, so have mercy on me if something like this is posted elsewhere, I did look but couldn't find anything.
So I just recently went through the process of overhauling our website as well getting the .3dcartstores out of our http:// URLs, and am currently setting up our PPC campaigns within Google Adwords. I was wondering if there is any way to set up individual product categories that I can link to as a landing page for PPC traffic. I know that Google Analytics can give me all of the information I need, but I like to have a 'hard-wired' way to know where sales are coming from.
An example of this would go like this:
1. Someone searches keyword that triggers my ad.
2. Ad copy says 'Organization X Product type A variants, click here!" (not the real copy, no worries!)
3. Destination URL lands them at a category page that includes the variants of a certain product type, like Organization X flags.
4. The category would include copies of product listings, but the ID/SKUs would include a (PPC) so when the order comes through I know it came from our paid search campaign.
5. Here's the kicker: I want to be able to display multiple products on the landing page like a category, but be able to hide the category from organic traffic so I don't skew my metrics.
Right now I have been able to effectively hide an individual product from organic traffic by linking to it and making it 'non-searchable', but I haven't been able to make an entire category non-searchable. A second thought was to make a subcategory from the top level category and hide it, then a sub-subcategory and have that unhidden. I couldn't get this to work. Again, I know Google Analytics could give me all of this information no problem, but would like to find a 'hard-wired' workaround for the time being.
Thank you in advance, any help is appreciated!