How to use Google Analytics as an affiliate to track sales data

pasta_paul

As an affiliate, how can we get more information on sales? It looks like the goals feature in GA is for those who have control over the receipt page. But we are sending users away using an affiliate link. With event tracking, we've been able to count the clicks and see which links are being clicked the most, but not which ones actually convert. We want to find out the following on each sale: Did the converted user come from search or internal...

Originally asked by lalex on Stack Exchange (webmasters) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Google Analytics is not Affiliate Tracking tool, you have to be the website owner in order to track its pages. You can track your affiliate landing pages using GA If you'll open a GA account and register your landing pages you'll be able to see in: Standard Reporting -> Sources -> All traffic the breakdown of the traffic sources Standard Reporting -> Sources -> search will show you the keywords that were used. You can find more information in regards here

Full answer by Nir Alfasi: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/28902 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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