Essentially I’m going to try my hand at e-commerce, selling a dog QR tag. I’ve been working with 2 wholesalers in China and am getting sample products. Both companies are like “send me your website and we will create the QR codes and custom URL backslash links.”
So my question: what type of website software/plug in/backend thing can I use to have the customer type in their info for their dog AND QR code backlash link (I.e. findfido.com/bgt102), then it automatically creates their unique page with their imported information (dog name, phone numbers, etc).
What types of systems/code should I use?
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I'm trying to build a directory on my website and want to get that data from SERPs. The sites from my search results could have data on different pages.
For example, I want to build a directory of adult sports leagues in the US. I get my SERPs to gather my URLs for leagues. Then from that list, I want to search those individual URLs for: name of league, location, sports offered, contact info, description, etc.
Each website will have that info in different places, obviously. But I'd like to be able to get the data I'm looking for (which not every site will have) and put that in a CSV and then use it to build the directory on my website.
I'm not a coder but trying to find out if this is even feasible from my limited understanding of data scraping. Would appreciate any feedback!
I've looked at some data scraping software. Put requests on Fiverr with no response.
I have a website that I built and am getting sales everyday now via "affiliate window" I was curious if it was possible to track the commission in analytics so I am able to see what pages are performing the best?
Thanks
You should look into purpose-built affiliate trackers. Voluum, Thrive, Adsbridge etc. CharlesNgo.com has a lot of info about these.
You can also use these trackers to dynamically insert user data into your landing pages, and they are a lot easier than GA to use. Example: https://charlesngo.com/how-to-insert-user-data-into-landing-pages-using-voluum-tokens/
After a clarifying comment: Yes, you can do this, although with some caveats (one of them that it might not be worth the effort unless you make a lot from your affiliate pages).
You can do data imports, and more specifically you can add data to urls (there are different kinds of data import and "content data" is one of them).
You need a dataset that contains a "key" field that is used to match external data to GA data and one or more fields with values you want to import.
Imported data is always dimensions, i.e. categorical data (that is per Documentation The interface allow to to select custom metrics, but I have not yet tried this and cannot give any guidance on how that would work). So if you try to import revenue you have the problem that new entries will not be added to existing entries, they will replace them
What I would probably do is to sort the data from the "affiliate window" into three categories (low, medium, high), and then prepare a csv file with the urls as first column and the categories as second column.
Then create a custom dimension with a name of i.e. "performance" (else you'd have to overwrite an existing dimension in GA and you probably not want that).
Both custom dimensions and data imports are created on a property level (however you can apply an import to a specific view and I would urge you to test this on a test view first). So in the property settings go to data import, new, content data. Key will be "page", Imported data will be the custom dimension you just created. Check "overwrite hit data" (else the data will not change after the first import, however note that this might make comparisons between different timeframes difficult).
Download the "schema" file (simply a template for your csv upload file in which you insert your data). Click finish.
Next go to data imports, "manage uploads" and upload the file. Processing will take a day or so (errors, if any, you will see shortly after the upload).
Then go to your content reports, select your custom dimension as secondary dimension and you will if the url in question was a low, medium or high performer.
You can automate this via the GA API, bit that's a bit beyond an SO answer.
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This is actually what campaign parameters are for. Your affiliate links should be tagged with campaign parameters, e.g.
http://example.com/?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=[[Affliate
Name]]&utm_campaign=[[Campaign Name]]
The things in the angled brackets are placeholders, you would replace those with the name of your affiliate and the name of your campaign.
Now you can look into the aquisition reports and group by source (values for all affiliate links), by source (breakdown by affiliate name) or campaigns, or combinations thereof.
However tracking the commission you pay out via Google Analytics is probably not a good idea, at least from the point of view of your affiliates - JavaScript based tracking is not necessarily accurate enough to track billable services (some people have js disabled or opted out of GA or use adblockers that block tracking etc).
Yes it's possible. You can use sub-id's and fill them with unique visitor data (Google Analytics Used ID). Once an affiliate sale is tracked in an affiliate network, you'll get the sub-id that generated the sale. You can now push that sale to google analytics and let google analytics match the visitor data with their data, showing you the full visitor reports (including landingpage info etc.). You need developer skills to get this working with your affiliate networks but there are complete easy to use tools that does the trick for you such as Ivanhoe.io and Coincrack.
Is there a good API or other possible solution to the following?
I am trying to track club membership and discrete "check in" events/activities using QR codes. First I generate a QR code with an embedded URL to a web page with member information (random/obscured URLs with shortened links) and print that QR code on a label and attach it to a membership card. I then scan the QR code with Red Laser or some other reader to access the shortened URL and the "hidden" member information.
My issue is that I have 100s (eventually thousands) of QR codes to track so I'm looking for a simple tool or API to manage all of these obscure links and see how often they have been accessed by Red Laser (or a browser if someone manages to discover any of these obscured links).
I tried Google Analytics but I wasn't able to get the level of "fine tune" control I'd like. What I really want is the ability to map this information (e.g., member contact info, obscure links, number of times clicked, etc.) to a format like chartbeat.com.
Grateful for any suggestions.
I have a classifieds webapp for our student union and want to create printable versions of the different ads, that students can print and distribute on the campus. To get further information, people should be able to read a QR code from the printout with their smartphone.
The question is: Can I encode both the phone number to call for the ad and the URL of the website in the QR code at the same time, so that people can scan the code and then select if they want to call the person or open the website of the ad?
I was thinking about using a vcard, but that would add that otherwise useless information to the peoples contacts list. Is there something like CSV data that Android correctly reads to achieve this? (And preferably iPhones, too)
Of course you can.
VCard is fine, it would enable other QR readers to parse it correctly - so your QR would be up to standard.
You wouldn't have to implement full RFC though, just the basic TEL, and URL fields.
So, I'm working on a Drupal 6 project that ultimately replaces a big, complex Excel spreadsheet with a workflow as such:
Customer books an appointment via the Bookings API
Employee goes to customer and does a bunch of measurements
Employee enters measurements into either an uploaded Excel spreadsheet or a web-based form
Website generates a PDF with measurement sheet and the output from the Invoice module
Customer receives an email with link to watermarked version of PDF.
Customer pays online and receives link to unwatermarked PDF.
My questions are:
What is the best way to go about Part 3 (Such that the data can be used by Parts 4-6)? CCK fields and a custom content type?
What is the best way to combine content types (I.e., "Measurements" custom content type with "Invoice" content type) into a single PDF?
Bonus Marks: Any way to auto-populate Invoice module content types?
Any help will be muchly appreciated!
You are actyally trying to sell a product with customisable input (comparable to a t-shirt with a custom print, but instead of using a custom picture, you use custom data).
Here is what I did for a comparable project:
Use ubercart: http://www.ubercart.org/
Use the UC Node Checkout extension, this allows you to link a node to an ubercart product and use the information in the node for your customised product: http://drupal.org/project/uc_node_checkout
Here's an excellent walkthrough for UC Node Checkout: http://drupaleasy.com/blogs/ultimike/2009/03/event-registration-ubercart
You can use FileField for uploading the Excel file: http://drupal.org/project/filefield
Make sure you use the Transliteration module: http://drupal.org/project/transliteration
The PECL upload progress is also nice to have
You will also need a csv reader, but haven't tried this yet
Finally, to give a link to the file, you can use the Ubercart selling files mechanism: http://www.ubercart.org/docs/user/3345/selling_files
Bonus:
You can use the Automatic node tite module to autoname a node: http://drupal.org/project/auto_nodetitle
For other fields, you can use the token mechanism: http://drupal.org/project/token
I ended up using:
a. Storm for CRM functionality
b. Simple Payments for Storm Invoice payment
c. Print module for PDF output
d. Calendar (+ Views) for appointment booking (Used internally; stage 1 changed to "employee sets up appointment" in Storm Project)
e. CCK + Flexifield for the measurement sheet content type
f. Custom-written module to pass cost values to Storm and automate tasks between Storm/CCK measurement sheet.
Ubercart really is overkill for simple payment applications. Alas, Simple Payments is pretty poorly supported. If only there was a unified payment API or something...