Code for capturing PPC info on landing pages

[Anonymous]

We've dropped this code on a few test pages to see whether or not they would help us capture data from our AdWords campaigns, and it doesn't appear that we're having much luck. Anyone mind taking a quick look to see if there are any quick fixes that would make the cookie script work? Note that I've changed our site's name with "mysite.com." Thanks in advice for any help or advice anyone can offer.

<script src="/js/public/jquery-latest.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script src="/js/public/jquery.cookie.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script src="/js/public/jQueryString-2.0.2-Min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">

var $jQ = jQuery.noConflict();

$jQ(document).ready(function(){

   var excludedReferrers = [ "mysite.com", "info.mysite.com" ];

  var cookieDomain = "mysite.com";

  var payPerClickParameter = "utm_keyword";

  var payPerClickParameter = "utm_source";

  var payPerClickParameter = "utm_medium";

  var payPerClickParameter = "utm_content";

  var payPerClickParameter = "utm_campaign";

  var searchStringField = "#Search_String__c";

  var searchEngineField = "#Search_Engine__c";

  var payPerClickKeywordField = "#UTM_Keyword__c";

  var payPerClickSourceField = "#UTM_Source__c";

  var payPerClickMediumField = "#UTM_Medium__c";

  var payPerClickContentField = "#UTM_Content__c";

  var payPerClickCampaginField = "#UTM_Campaign__c";

  var refer = document.referrer;

  var searchString;

  var searchEngine;

  if ( (refer == undefined) || (refer == "") ) { ; }

  else {

    var referrerDomain =

      refer.substr(refer.indexOf("\/\/") + 2,

        refer.indexOf("\/",8) - refer.indexOf("\/\/") - 2).toLowerCase();

    var excludedDomainFound = false;

    var i = 0;

    while ( (i < excludedReferrers.length) && !excludedDomainFound) {

      var thisExcludedDomain = excludedReferrers[i].toLowerCase();

      excludedDomainFound = (referrerDomain.indexOf(thisExcludedDomain) != -1);

      i++;

    }

    if( !excludedDomainFound ) {

      var searchEngines = [

       { name: "Yahoo", url: /\.yahoo\.co/i, query: "p" },

       { name: "Google", url: /\.google\./i, query: "q" },

       { name: "Microsoft Live", url: /\.live\.com/i, query: "q" },

       { name: "MSN Search", url: /search\.msn\./i, query: "q" },

       { name: "AOL", url: /\.aol\./i, query: "query" },

       { name: "Bing", url: /\.bing\.com/i, query: "q" },

       { name: "Ask", url: /\.ask\.com/i, query: "q" }

      ];

      i = 0;

      while (i < searchEngines.length) {

        if (refer.match(searchEngines[i].url)) {

          searchEngine = searchEngines[i].name;

          searchString = $jQ.getQueryString({ ID: searchEngines[i].query,

            URL: refer, DefaultValue: "" });

          break;

        }

        i++;

      }

      if (i == searchEngines.length) {

         searchEngine = referrerDomain;

         var queries = ["q","p","query"];

         var i = 0;

         while ((i < queries.length) && (searchString == undefined)) {

           searchString = $jQ.getQueryString({ ID: queries[i], URL: refer });

           i++;

         }

         if (searchString == undefined) {

           searchString = "None";

         }

      }

      var payPerClickWord = $jQ.getQueryString({ID: payPerClickParameter,

        URL: refer, DefaultValue: "" });

      $jQ.cookie('mktoPPCKeyword', payPerClickWord,

         {expires: 730, path: '\/', domain: cookieDomain});

      $jQ.cookie('mktoSearchEngine', searchEngine,

         {expires: 730, path: '\/', domain: cookieDomain});

      $jQ.cookie('mktoSearchString', searchString,

         {expires: 730, path: '\/', domain: cookieDomain});

    }

  }

  $jQ(searchStringField).attr("value",$jQ.cookie('mktoSearchString'));

  $jQ(searchEngineField).attr("value",$jQ.cookie('mktoSearchEngine'));

  $jQ(payPerClickKeywordField).attr("value",$jQ.cookie('mktoPPCKeyword'));

});

</script>

[Anonymous]

Harvey,

What exactly fails to happen with your code? Do the cookies not get set? Or is it something else?

The one thing that stands out is that you're setting the path attribute of your cookies. This tells the browser to only send the cookie if the page that's being viewed by the user matches the path of the cookie. In your case, that means only send the cookie of the page is "V", which, I think you meant "/V" as the full path is required.

I recommend you simply remove the path altogether, especially if you want this code snippet to work on more than one page.

Also, pastebin is your friend: http://pastebin.com It'll pretty the code and format it making it much easier to read than simply pasting it into the post.

Let me know how you proceed and what you discover.

Alan