tracking adwords outbound links

[dfegan]

Hello all, I'm struggling to find the answer to the following questions.

How do i track a click on an outbound link as a conversion with google adwords. Adwords gives me some javascript to put in the body of the conversion page but as i don't have a conversion page this is somewhat difficult.

Our site Funkybump Maternity has several merchants on it. When someone clicks on a product it opens up the affiliate link in a new window. We have got google analytics to track the outbound clicks by running the urchin tracker onclick. I should be able to run the adwords code onclick but this is causing me some problems as its designed to be places somewhere inconspicuous on the conversion page (which we don't have)

any help would be greatly appreciated.

[D-Mac]

The easiest solution would be to use Google Analytics 'Goal Conversion' feature. Set up the Goal to be an exitclick, then view your Keywords report, and click the Goal Conversion tab. The data won't be available with Adwords, but the end result is almost as good.

Alternatively you could use a redirect script for your exit clicks with the Adwords JS code on it. I haven't actually tried this yet, as I suspect it requires a bit of faffing about to get it to work.

[dfegan]

D-Mac Thanks for getting back to me.

I've got the goal set up in google analytics and its working well, i was hoping to use the cost/conversion in adwords though. I can do it manually but it just been bugging the hell out of me.

I'll look into the redirect script option tough. I'm fairly new to jave so I'll give it a couple of weeks so i don't completely melt my head.

Thanks Again