Tracking Your Affiliate Links means knowing your numbers.
No matter what you are promoting affiliate products or your own, you always want to track your links.
If you don’t know your numbers, you don’t know what’s working and what doesn’t also you can’t optimize your business.
As I’m following a training called “Operation $100K” (which by the way is going to be probably over $2000 if not more when it’s done, but for now is included as a bonus with a membership account), I realized how fast you could lose money if not tracking. Not only that but you are wasting your time as well.
In the “Operation $100K” Vick (my mentor) is walking you through the whole process in over the shoulder video tutorial, recording everything, every move he makes, every click and the videos are raw and uncut, so you can see the psychology behind every move he makes and how he thinks.
In the traffic module, he was using a rotator, and of course, every link was tracked individually.
In one of his campaigns, he was using two sets of three different Landing Pages, competing with each other. So he found out that three of the Landing Pages was performing three times better than the other three.
At that point he simply removed the first three and kept the winners for his next promotion.
There are so many different tracker tools out there, some better than other, but then again you’ll get what you pay for.
One of my favorite tricks that he shared about tracking is the Master Rotator with a domain name inside the tracking system.
A little bit advanced stuff but a very cool way of tracking, knowing that you can control the links in the rotator. That means you can change/update all the links and keep the same Master Rotator link.
Tracking Your Affiliate Links – Is It Important?
Another reason for tracking is the link itself, especially if you are promoting affiliate products, and as we all know there are hundreds of affiliates, promoting the same product using the same link.
The problem with this is, some people will be using the raw link spamming on social media, and the link can get gray or even blacklisted.
That means when you use the link in your promotions your ad will get blocked. But when you are using your unique link, that nobody else is promoting, there is no way your link will get blacklisted.
Assuming you are not a spammer, and you know how to promote and advertise your products and services 🙂
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Hi Emi,
Thank you so much, Its really important to track your links.
Hello Emi,
Thank’s For The Amazing Advice, All Track My Affiliate Links,
Keep Up the Good Work, Well Written!
Have a Wonderful Day,
Muhammad Tabish recently posted…5 Things To Consider When Choosing A Web Hosting Provider
Hey Em! great post my friend! So true, if you dont track your links you wont have any cliue as to what is working and what is not..
Great Share
Chery :))
Hello mam,
GREAT ! You convey the impression as if you have an implausible knowledge on it and its your gratefulness for giving out and imparting your knowledge and blog with others.
Hi Emi,
It is so important to track your links.
If you don’t, you’ll never know whether you’re getting a hit from a Facebook post vs. an email message vs. you blog post or whatever.
I do very little affiliate marketing, but do track links for my own products and services.
I use an affiliate tracker to do this with, and am wondering what you think the best trackers are.
-Donna
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Great advice I track all my links. I have been able to find out what sites are a waste of time as well as comparing my own landing page site results as you mentioned. Thank you Emi
Emi, I never thought of the drawbacks of using the raw links. What you said makes absolute sense. We do stand the risk of getting our direct affiliate links blacklisted. I do see the importance of an unique link now.. Thank you! 🙂
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Hi Raghu,
Glad that you found value 🙂
Thank you for visiting!
Emi recently posted…Reticular Activating System
Thanks for sharing this! I have SO much to learn about affiliate blogging. This totally makes sense, though. I will keep this in mind and plan to implement it as I add more affiliate links to my blogs.
Karen Banks recently posted…More Writers in the Family
Hi Karen,
It takes time to get to all the tools and toys we have for affiliates and bloggers 🙂
Thank you for stopping by!
Emi recently posted…Reticular Activating System
Thanks Emi for these great tips on how to track your affiliate links as it is so important to know how well they are doing or not 🙂 Great share!
Joan Harrington recently posted…Here’s How To Write Sales-Boosting Bullet Points In Your Copy
Thank you Joan, I agree always good to know we are you standing 🙂
Emi recently posted…Reticular Activating System
Cool post. I’ll have to check out that module, sounds like it could be very beneficial.
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Hi Jim,
Yes it’s awesome module to dig into 🙂
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