2 Free Affiliate Tracking Tools You Must Include In Your Marketing Arsenal!
By Chadrack at 21 September, 2009, 4:20 pm
If you’re building your online home business using affiliate marketing, then utilizing these 2 free tools to track your marketing campaigns is a must. The reason being, using them rightly will help supercharge your affiliate sales and conversions.
Testing and tracking is one of the insider secrets of the super affiliates and knowing how to do this will truly move you into that inner cycle of affiliate superstars. So whatever affiliate products you’re promoting online you’ll do yourself a whole lot of good using these 2 tools:
1. Google Analytics:
This is simply a must. For what you get with this tool it’s really a puzzle that Google is offering this tool for free.
Google Analytics tells you lots of really important information about the traffic on your site. These include
(i) Which of your page(s) is/are getting the most traffic
(ii) How people are navigating your site, even where people are clicking
(iii) How and where did people find your site
(iv) Where they’re being referred from, and if by search engines, what keywords people are using. etc.
All these are vital information that can help you improve your site by pinpointing possible traffic leaks (where people are leaving your site – other than via affiliate links).
Google Analytics is a highly effective web analytics package, and best of all – it’s free! You just have to place a piece of code on every page of your site. If you’re using Wordpress, there are a number of plugins that allow you to install the code on every page automatically.
Check out Google Analytics at
==> http://www.google.com/analytics
2. ClickBank Tracking Tool:
Clickbank is definitely one of the biggest affiliate portals on the net for downloadable products. if you’re promoting Clickbank products as an affiliate and you’re generating traffic from multiple sources, i.e. different websites, forum posts, PPC, etc, it is necessary that you use the special tool provided by Clickbank to add a tracking code to your affiliate link. This will help you separate out which sources are sending how much traffic and how they’re converting.
To create a tracking ID, you just have to add a small bit to the end of your hoplink using the tool provided by clickbank. The tracking ID could be anything of your choice. For example “ppc”, “forum”, or “review”.
To check your tracking ID results, log in to your Clickbank account at Clickbank.com, click on “Reporting” and then “Analytics”. Under “Affiliate Reporting”, select “report by tracking codes” and choose the period you want to look at. You will then get data arranged by your tracking ID that will tell you the number of hops (clicks), number of sales, number of chargebacks, net sales, total sales and refunds.
Utilizing these affiliate tracking tools is one of the most effective ways to achieve more success in affiliate marketing since you have the opportunity of continuously tweaking your promotions until you found what really works for you.
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