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Track
Visitors, Track Conversions, Track
Adsense, Track It Or Lose It
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To run an affiliate
marketing business or any other internet marketing business without
tracking is like shooting in the dark.
The bottom line
for any affiliate marketer is
- Track source of
traffic
- Track keywords
- Track conversions
- Track entry pages
- Track exit pages
- Track
adsense
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Cannot emphasize this
enough , tracking is the be all and end all of
taking your affiliate marketing business forwards.
You need to know where your traffic
is coming from and increase
the methods that have yielded results
You need to find out which of your
traffic generation campaigns is not increasing visitors to your
affiliate marketing link or website. You can either turn off
these none productive campaigns or optimize them
You need to know which keywords are
resulting in conversions and
which keywords are not. That way
you can further optimize your site for the converting keywords.
You need to know where people enter
your site. This would be the
best place to put your opt in form.
And from which page do
your
visitors leave your website.
Is there something of a turn off on
that page that is making visitors leave your website on that page?
Now
how do you track your website visitors.
Free option:
- Google
analytics. This is a very good website tracking software. It
requires you to place a piece of html code on every page of your
website and then it collects the data using this code. Analytics
is very easy to use, the results are quit comprehensive and the
interphase is easy to use.
Go to
http://www.google.com/analytics/ and sign up for a free account
- Free Stats: If
your website is a blog, then the more appropriate free tool is
addfreestats. This can also be used on a regular website. Again, you
need to put a snippet of code on your webpage. Addfreestats gives you a
hour by hour breakdown of your traffic
Go to
http://addfreestats.com/ and sign up for a free account
Commercial:
Most
Recommended:
- Adsense
tracker: A must have for any serious internet marketer. Adsense
tracker tracks
- Adsense
- Adlinks
- Yahoo publisher
- Shopping ads
It
tells you
- The keywords used to reach your webpage
- The domain referring the visitor to your website.
- The webpages visited
- Which webpage generated an adsense click or other
conversion
- The ip of the visitor
- Hours report
- much more
Learn More about tracking your website's traffic and conversions here
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