Putting Dynamic Keywords in your Landing Pages
This shows how to dynamically display the keyword the user was searching for on your landing page. This is a simple script that prints the dynamic keyword on the page for users with Tracking202 installed. Below is an example landing page .php file that shows how to place dynamic keywords on your landing page!
Landing Page Code
<?
//grab t202 keyword
$keyword = $_GET['t202kw'];
//if a yahoo keyword exists, over-write the t202 keyword
//for Yahoo OVKEY = the bidded keyword, OVRAW = actual keyword
//you can change $_GET['OVRAW'] to $_GET['OVKEY'] if you would
//like to display the bidded keyword, instead of the actual keyword.
if ($_GET['OVKEY']) { $keyword = $_GET['OVKEY']; }
//now anywhere we call echo $keyword, it will display the dynamic kw!
//extra goodie, uncomment the line below if you would like to capitalize
//the first character in each word
//$keyword = ucwords(strtolower($keyword));
?>
<html>
<head>
<!-- Display the Dynamic Keyword in the Title! -->
<title><? echo $keyword; ?></title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Display the Dynamic Keyword in the body's content! -->
This is the content on my landing page! You were searching for <? echo $keyword; ?>.
</body>
</html>
Conclusion
Anywhere you now call
<? echo $keyword; ?>
in your .php file, it will print out the dynamic keyword insertion!
Terrence on Jul 14, 2008 at 10:11am
Great script!
Question: Can I use this to get the bidded keyword as well?
Wes Mahler on Jul 15, 2008 at 9:50am
Sure, the above example should actually grab the bidded keyword, not the actual keyword.
Andre Chaperon on Jul 16, 2008 at 7:01pm
Wes,
The "actual keyword" is the important one for me. The bid keyword I already know, of course.
Is there a way for P202 to record this?
Andre
Wes Mahler on Jul 17, 2008 at 5:48am
Well the ACTUAL KEYWORD is recorded for P202,
But this script will print the BIDDED KEYWORD, on a landing page.
So yes it already does it, P202 records the ACTUAL, not the BIDDED keyword.
Ron Berg on Sep 03, 2008 at 5:31pm
What does {keyword} capture? The actual query or the keyword triggered in the list of keywords?
Thanks,
Ron
Steven on Sep 03, 2008 at 6:26pm
Hi Ron,
The actual query. It use to grab from the list of keywords but we've disabled that and went with the actual query since it is more accurate of what you would want.
musignr on Sep 10, 2008 at 4:10pm
Wes, I think this is exactly the script I need.
I have 100s of keywords and want to setup a SINGLE landing page that displays content that is relevant to the users search term.
So I insert <? echo $keyword; ?> wherever I want their search term to show up and I'm good. right?
Also, will this method optimize the landing page for each keyword and help boost Quality Score? Or do you have to create static content pages for each keyword to improve QS?
Wes Mahler on Sep 11, 2008 at 10:23am
Yes you are correct, go ahead and test-it yourself on a live site, (you'll of course have to click on one of your text-advertisements)
Although it may not increase your QS by leaps and bounds, it can't help but make it more targeted, you'll probably as well have to create static content, that'll help.
Wes (MasterlessSamurai.com) on Sep 12, 2008 at 1:42pm
The code above works for me if I have the t202kw variable in the URL. When I don't though, I get an error: Notice: Undefined index: t202kw.
How could I change the code to say "if the t202kw exists, echo keyword, else echo (default keyword)" ?
I dont want my users to see an error. Most of the time I'll have the t202kw variable in the URL anyway, but if I happen to get some natural traffic or type in, this is when they'll see an error.
jDilleo on Sep 22, 2008 at 5:36pm
MasterlessSamurai,
You can replace
$keyword = $_GET['t202kw'];
with
if(is_null($keyword = $_GET['t202kw'])) $keyword='defaultkeyword';
That should do it.
wowjoomla.com on Oct 25, 2008 at 4:14am
I have actually created something like this for the Joomla CMS. It essentially displays the the message 'You came from Google looking for {keyword} you may be interesting in the following articles...' it then displays a string of articles.
However is it my understanding that this can be used within any off the content on a page?
Is there a way to have a default keyword already in the content (for those who come directly to the site]? For those who come via a search engine the keyword would change from the default.
Mark Pivon on Oct 31, 2008 at 1:46pm
This is excellent! Users may also be interested in a free script that I have created which creates personalized urls. The system pulls data from a database, and populates a template with the database info. So, users are greeted by name, and can even be served personalized images and text - all based on a URL without a login or cookies. Download a free version at http://www.DynamicURLS.com and keep up the good work!
Samuel on Dec 01, 2008 at 9:01pm
Totally brilliant! That's what I wanted!
Google Search Sux on Jan 17, 2009 at 5:47pm
I cant get this code to work in Wordpress Blog... wtf
Wes Mahler on Jan 19, 2009 at 10:16pm
Its because it is PHP code, it probably can't just be dropped into a blog post, it'd have to be in the raw PHP files
mark on Jan 27, 2009 at 9:39am
Re WP blogs
Just tested putting Dynamic Keywords on WordPress posts and pages and it works perfect.
You need Exec-PHP plugin and follow the instructions.
mark
Trevor on Feb 23, 2009 at 12:39pm
What does the code look like when you "uncomment the line below if you would like to captilize
// the first character in each word"
Is this correct?: //$keyword = ucwords(strtolower($keyword));
Any help much appreciated.
brian on May 28, 2009 at 12:26am
Question: When running this script in Wordpress, does this mean that I can't use WP-SuperCache on the entire blog so that my landing pages are generated dynamically with keywords each time?
PPCer on Jul 01, 2009 at 11:25am
I got the script working with the title caps, default text and everything, that's cool...
However one problem, sure my page includes the searched query as part of title and text and is good for getting conversions, however when I put the default tracking202 destination url in adwords -
i.e. http://mydomain.com/mypage.php?t202id=1234&t202kw= the end is left with kw= (blank) so I get a terrible quality score...
If I manually add the terms then I will have overridden the assigned keywords and won't get the actual search queries in my stats... How can I overcome this?
newbie on Jul 20, 2009 at 11:05am
I'm total noob in prosper202 and ppc but I think that you should try your url with dynamic keyword insertion.
So your url would look something like this:
http://mydomain.com/mypage.php?t202id=1234&t202kw={keyword:nil}
Check out here:
http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=74996