I've asked this question before without really understanding the question.

I feed my traffic sources into aweber optin mailers. I can track which keywords get the optins just fine. But when I make CPA sales from the follow-up emails I get no subID recorded.

Should I be using POST/GET to pull the subID from the original optin? Can I pass the variable through hidden variables in the aweber forms?

If anyone has any idea about the problems I'm having PLEASE get back to me! Even if it requires custom scripting by a freelancer.

Thanks,

Neonmike.

How did you go with this? I'm trying to do the same thing

How did you go with this? I'm trying to do the same thing

this is very interesting to me as well....

i don't use aweber but still. i'm breaking even on the first visit but collecting a TON of emails, so my profits are coming via the autoresponder....

but i need to track WHICH ads are getting the sale, and how long its taking for the traffic to convert.

any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.

Seems like this is a hot topic. Add me to the list of those interested in knowing how to do this.

I know the Tracking202 guys will currently be consumed by the Bloosky acquisition but if someone could answer this I'm sure there would be quite a few happy marketers out there!

Glad to see other people had trouble with this and not just me! I did work out a pretty complicated workaround. It seems tricky but once you get it then it all works VERY smoothly and I now miss very few subIDs.

There are a few important steps here. If anyone can tell me a simpler way of doing it PLEASE tell me!

1) Firstly you MUST have an initial redirect (META redirect, not HEADER) that looks like this:

index.php (with prosper cookie)

-->

lander (with aweber form)

You MUST use this redirect or the whole thing won't work. For some reason (I don't know why) the tracking code that is set by the prosper cookie will not pass to the aweber form unless you redirect first.

2) On the aweber form, use aweber's meta_adtracking to pass the prosper tracking ID into aweber's optin database.

Remember this code is the tracking ID. NOT the subID yet.

3) Send your subscribers to a redirect from your followups using a link something like this:

www.yourdomain.com/offer.php?tracking={!ad_tracking}

This should pass the tracking ID to the prosper redirect which will covert it to a subID. BUT instead of using a $_COOKIE you MUST use $_GET.

For example, instead of this:

&pci='.$_COOKIE['tracking202pci'];

use this code:

&pci='.$_GET['tracking'];

And this is it! It SHOULD work if you follow these steps. Let me know if you need help getting this to work :)