System and method for assessing effectiveness of internet marketing campaign
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method for indicating the effectiveness of at least one advertisement on at least one site on a wide area computer network, comprising the steps of:
- associating the advertisement with an advertisement identification;
including the advertisement identification in a first network path name;
receiving the first network path name;
in response to the receiving step, returning to a user a second network path name including a visitor identification; and
correlating the advertisement identification with the visitor identification, wherein the advertisement identification is removed from the first path name and replaced with the visitor identification to thereby render the second path name.
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Abstract
A Web advertising measurement system that correlates the number of impressions of Web advertisements with post-impression transactional activity to measure the effectiveness of the advertisements. When a user clicks on a banner advertisement, an impression is established and the user'"'"'s identification is recorded. Then, when the user undertakes post-impression transactional activity such as downloading software related to the advertisement, ordering products and services related to the advertisement, and so on, the transactional activity along with the user'"'"'s identification is recorded. Based on the user identifications, the number of impressions associated with the advertisements are correlated to the post-impression transactional activity as a measure of effectiveness of each advertisement.
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18 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method for indicating the effectiveness of at least one advertisement on at least one site on a wide area computer network, comprising the steps of:
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associating the advertisement with an advertisement identification; including the advertisement identification in a first network path name; receiving the first network path name; in response to the receiving step, returning to a user a second network path name including a visitor identification; and correlating the advertisement identification with the visitor identification, wherein the advertisement identification is removed from the first path name and replaced with the visitor identification to thereby render the second path name. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A computer program product comprising:
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a computer program storage device readable by a digital processing system; and logic means on the program storage device and including instructions executable by the digital processing system for performing method steps for assessing the effectiveness of advertising on a wide area computer network, the method steps comprising; (a) recording the number of times user computers of the network select one or more advertisements on one or more sites on the network, a respective impression being established when a user computer selects an advertisement; (b) associating at least one respective user identification with at least one of the impressions; (c) associating user identifications to subsequent transactional activity relating to products or services promoted by the one or more advertisements; and (d) for at least one of the advertisements and based on the user identifications, correlating the subsequent activity to a number of impressions associated with the advertisement as an indication of the effectiveness of the advertisement. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system for indicating the effectiveness of at least one advertisement on at least one site on a wide area computer network, comprising:
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logic means for determining, by user identification, when user computers of the network gain impressions of the advertisement; logic means for using user identifications to correlate impressions of the advertisement to post-impression transactional activity undertaken by the user computers as an indication of the effectiveness of the advertisements, and means for replacing the advertisement identification in the first network path name with the visitor identification to thereby render the second network path name. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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