Comments on: Customers, Conversions and Tracking…Oh my! http://www.ysmblog.com/blog/2007/05/30/customers-conversions-and-tracking%e2%80%a6oh-my/ The official blog of Yahoo! Search Marketing Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:47:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: GC http://www.ysmblog.com/blog/2007/05/30/customers-conversions-and-tracking%e2%80%a6oh-my/comment-page-1/#comment-824240 GC Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:58:14 +0000 http://www.ysmblog.com/blog/2007/05/30/customers-conversions-and-tracking%e2%80%a6oh-my/#comment-824240 E Carberry: I'm in the same boat, w/ 45 accounts. I also just got off the phone with a Yahoo tech, and I can answer your question. Yahoo's script is apparently designed to work with 1 account and 1 conversion page - it can't correctly track or assign conversions when there are multiple accounts feeding into 1 conversion page. Sad. Would've been great to know this before considering Yahoo's SM... E Carberry: I’m in the same boat, w/ 45 accounts. I also just got off the phone with a Yahoo tech, and I can answer your question.

Yahoo’s script is apparently designed to work with 1 account and 1 conversion page – it can’t correctly track or assign conversions when there are multiple accounts feeding into 1 conversion page.

Sad. Would’ve been great to know this before considering Yahoo’s SM…

]]> By: E Carbery http://www.ysmblog.com/blog/2007/05/30/customers-conversions-and-tracking%e2%80%a6oh-my/comment-page-1/#comment-747737 E Carbery Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:13:44 +0000 http://www.ysmblog.com/blog/2007/05/30/customers-conversions-and-tracking%e2%80%a6oh-my/#comment-747737 I manage several affiliate sites and I am trying to have YSM tracking for 3 accounts on one conversion page. The tracking only works for which ever site's tracking code is on top of the 3. If I move around the order the conversion code is placed on the conversion page the code that is on top of the 3 works, but the other 2 do not. Does anyone know what the problem is or how I can fix this? Thanks in advance. I manage several affiliate sites and I am trying to have YSM tracking for 3 accounts on one conversion page. The tracking only works for which ever site’s tracking code is on top of the 3. If I move around the order the conversion code is placed on the conversion page the code that is on top of the 3 works, but the other 2 do not. Does anyone know what the problem is or how I can fix this?
Thanks in advance.

]]> By: Glenn Summers http://www.ysmblog.com/blog/2007/05/30/customers-conversions-and-tracking%e2%80%a6oh-my/comment-page-1/#comment-559850 Glenn Summers Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:09:55 +0000 http://www.ysmblog.com/blog/2007/05/30/customers-conversions-and-tracking%e2%80%a6oh-my/#comment-559850 After reading some of the comments concerning the analytics features, It only tells me I must be a dunce. Can't count the number of hours and times I have called to get help with this. All to no avail. The response from Yahoo guy's is always very cordial and they don't call me stupid so I guess that's a good thing. I'm about at the point my 3 year experiment using this search engine stuff is Over.. Too bad I can't take the time to go to Ca. and see if someone can SHOW me how great this SEM is.. At this point I doubt I'd get a click if I paid $100.00 for a keyword. Tired of wasting money on it!!! After reading some of the comments concerning the analytics features, It only tells me I must be a dunce. Can’t count the number of hours and times I have called to get help with this. All to no avail. The response from Yahoo guy’s is always very cordial and they don’t call me stupid so I guess that’s a good thing. I’m about at the point my 3 year experiment using this search engine stuff is Over.. Too bad I can’t take the time to go to Ca. and see if someone can SHOW me how great this SEM is.. At this point I doubt I’d get a click if I paid $100.00 for a keyword. Tired of wasting money on it!!!

]]> By: Somm Wunn http://www.ysmblog.com/blog/2007/05/30/customers-conversions-and-tracking%e2%80%a6oh-my/comment-page-1/#comment-271615 Somm Wunn Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:42:15 +0000 http://www.ysmblog.com/blog/2007/05/30/customers-conversions-and-tracking%e2%80%a6oh-my/#comment-271615 Hi Stephanie, I'd like to know if there is a character limit on transactionId in the Conversion-Only Tag. I'd also like to know the formatting for the amount tag (would 10.00 be accepted?). Thanks! Hi Stephanie, I’d like to know if there is a character limit on transactionId in the Conversion-Only Tag. I’d also like to know the formatting for the amount tag (would 10.00 be accepted?). Thanks!

]]> By: Shelley http://www.ysmblog.com/blog/2007/05/30/customers-conversions-and-tracking%e2%80%a6oh-my/comment-page-1/#comment-271371 Shelley Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:28:11 +0000 http://www.ysmblog.com/blog/2007/05/30/customers-conversions-and-tracking%e2%80%a6oh-my/#comment-271371 We have had nothing but issues wiht the analytics - we set up the account according to instructions then a few months down teh road, we get error messages. We call to figure out what the problem is with the analytics, paste the code (again), disble or enable something and then right on schedule, more problems. I'm starting to turn clients away and to other SM companies because YSM is such a pain to keep running! We have had nothing but issues wiht the analytics – we set up the account according to instructions then a few months down teh road, we get error messages. We call to figure out what the problem is with the analytics, paste the code (again), disble or enable something and then right on schedule, more problems. I’m starting to turn clients away and to other SM companies because YSM is such a pain to keep running!

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