Using Dedicated Landing Pages For
Tracking Promotional Campaigns.

Dedicated landing pages are traditionally used to track the effects of particular promotions and advertising. These work by creating a special page (with a unique URL) especially for each and every promotional campaign.

This works by using only the landing page url in association with a campaign. You'd not mention, or otherwise link to that page outside of that campaign. Thus, anyone arriving at a given landing page must be as a result of the promotional campaign it is associated with.

Landing pages themselves only help track referrals but, when combined with some form of session tracking, can also help to calculate the ROI of a given promotional campaign too.

Landing pages are versatile, but because a separate page is needed for each campaign you wish to track, it can be quite time intensive to setup this form of tracking.

Additionally, there is a limitation with online campaigns, where having links to unique landing pages could weaken any link popularity benefit you would normally gain. With so many modern search engines placing great weight on link popularity, this can be quite a drawback.

However, one of the main benefits of having dedicated landing pages is that you can have specific copy tailored to the exact audience your campaign is designed to target. In other words, a sales pitch tailored specifically to the audience that a specific advert can reach.

In summary, dedicated landing pages are a versatile and useful tool in tracking (and converting) referrals from specific campaigns. Combine the landing pages with other tracking solutions, and you have a very effective means of tracking and converting referrals.

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Using Web Server Logs for Tracking Usage

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