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Ask HN: I am running AdWords to promote my iPhone App. How do I...
I am now running an AdWords campaign that links to www.gaiagps.com. Once they get to the site, I want to track how many people click the "Buy Now" button that brings up iTunes.
Normally, I could just put a tracker on the page I wanted to measure, but since I'm popping them off to iTunes, I need to track clicks on the link, not page landings.
My solution for now is this: I put a javascript Google Analytics trigger in the <a onclick> to track clicks of that link, and then I can cross-reference that against paid traffic.
However, does AdWords have a way to track these conversions directly? They have a "Conversion Tracking" system, but it seems to only work if they land on a page, not if they click a link, because you insert an Javascript snippet in the page to track conversions.
Am I missing something about AdWords Conversion Tracking, or is the GA the right tool to use here? I suppose I could also redirect them to a page with tracking code before I redirect them to iTunes, but this seems like kind of a hack.
- cpr 17y agoThe first question I'd ask is whether people ever use Google to search for iPhone apps? My take is, Not really. Perhaps it's different in the GPS world.
- andrewljohnson 17y agoPeople do... we get organic search traffic for people looking for "iphone offline maps" "iphone topo maps" "best iphone gps app" and stuff like that. I chose my keywords for adwords based on our organic traffic.
- sharpshoot 17y agoappsto.re
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- andrewljohnson 17y agoOh cool, I'll sign up right now. :)
- andrewljohnson 17y agoOoops, I can't seem to verify my website, even though I put the tracking string at www.gaiagps.com. Where it says "Your website" on the verify page, it looks like there is a bug too.
- prbuckley 17y agoHi Andrew, My apologize. Are you still having a problem? Email me direct and we will figure out the problem. patrick@appsto.re