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I Advice - How To Track Your Affiliate Sales & Traffic
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"Password"
You should always choose a random combination of letters and numbers for your passwords, but to keep things simple for this example enter "showstats" as the password.
"Destination URL"
This is your ClickBank affiliate URL with a tracking ID appended to the end. It should look like this:
http://yourid.publisherid.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=[TAG]
Make sure you replace "y
Many small-business marketers don’t have the know-how to market like the big boys. Make a New Year’s resolution to tell potential customers about your quality services. Are they dropping the ball on their marketing efforts?Here are seven tidbits for increasing visibility in your business and to establish yourself as an expert in your field. Let your intended audiences gain insight into your quality services and products by using these simple yet effective tactics for small businesses.Partner with other small businessesDo some research and find out what other businesses are serving customers in your market. Offer to recommend their products or services in exchange for their recommendations for yours.Remember word of mouth advertisingGo above and beyond to tell people about your products or service offerings. Attend networking events and pass out business cards. Ask for referrals from existing customers, these can be great warm ca
Ok, let's get started. If you're not familiar with ClickBank's tracking ID system then you can read more about it at ClickBank (read their Hoplink FAQ). The problem is you can only track sales, not clicks. Let's take a look at an example to demonstrate the problem, and the solution. Let's say you have a webpage at this address:
http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html
On that page you're promoting a ClickBank affiliate URL:
http://yourid.publisherid.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=code1
You can see that "yourid" is your ClickBank affiliate ID, "publisherid" is the ID of the merchant you're promoting and "code1" is the tracking ID for this particular link. If 100 people click on that link and 3 of them buy the product, that's a conversion ratio of 3%. A conversion ratio is the percentage of people you send to an affiliate URL who then go on to buy the product. In this case, the figure of 3% means that 3 out of every 100 visitors, on average, became customers.
3% isn't bad, but hang on a minute - ClickBank only tells you there were 3 sales for the tracking ID "code1". You don't know there were 100 clicks on the link, and without this figure you can't calculate the conversion ratio. What if 500 people had clicked on the link? The conversion ratio would be just 0.6% (i.e. 0.6% of the 500 visitors became customers). Ideally you should only promote websites that have a relatively high conversion ratio. If you're promoting two different ClickBank products for example, and one has a conversion ratio of 1% and the other 4%, you'd be better off focusing your attention on the second one and ditching the first. You'll only know this if you can calculate the conversion ratio. Luckily, this problem is easily solved with the use of a simple click-tracker PHP script. The script simply counts the number of times someone clicks on a link.
Don't worry if you've never used PHP before, there's nothing complicated about it. As long as you can upload files to your webspace you'll have no problem following these easy steps. It goes without saying that you also need PHP running on your server.
Go to PHPSuccessTools (see the resource box at the end for the URL), click "mailing list" in the navigation bar at the top and subscribe, then check your email for the password. This will give you full access to all the scripts that are available. Click on "Free Scripts" in the navigation bar and then click on "Tagged Click Tracker". Then fill out the form as follows:
"Password"
You should always choose a random combination of letters and numbers for your passwords, but to keep things simple for this example enter "showstats" as the password.
"Destination URL"
This is your ClickBank affiliate URL with a tracking ID appended to the end. It should look like this:
http://yourid.publisherid.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=[TAG]
Make sure you replace "yo
These days, almost all customer support systems are automated. Still, nothing beats the ‘real thing’ – live customer support that is both warm and friendly. Live customer support can do so much more for a company than business owners and managers realize. It creates a favorable impression on people – customer, partners and prospective clients who come in contact with your company.Developing live customer supportThere are generally two ways of providing customer support – via the Internet or the telephone.While email is an acceptable and effective method of communication, it is still stagnant and expensive in the long run. A customer, when unsatisfied with the reply, will tend to email again and take up yet another significant part of your customer representatives’ time. This will never happen if you have live customer support. Your clients will get all the answers they need at once, and your customer service representatives can move on to the next client and
http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html
On that page you're promoting a ClickBank affiliate URL:
http://yourid.publisherid.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=code1
You can see that "yourid" is your ClickBank affiliate ID, "publisherid" is the ID of the merchant you're promoting and "code1" is the tracking ID for this particular link. If 100 people click on that link and 3 of them buy the product, that's a conversion ratio of 3%. A conversion ratio is the percentage of people you send to an affiliate URL who then go on to buy the product. In this case, the figure of 3% means that 3 out of every 100 visitors, on average, became customers.
3% isn't bad, but hang on a minute - ClickBank only tells you there were 3 sales for the tracking ID "code1". You don't know there were 100 clicks on the link, and without this figure you can't calculate the conversion ratio. What if 500 people had clicked on the link? The conversion ratio would be just 0.6% (i.e. 0.6% of the 500 visitors became customers). Ideally you should only promote websites that have a relatively high conversion ratio. If you're promoting two different ClickBank products for example, and one has a conversion ratio of 1% and the other 4%, you'd be better off focusing your attention on the second one and ditching the first. You'll only know this if you can calculate the conversion ratio. Luckily, this problem is easily solved with the use of a simple click-tracker PHP script. The script simply counts the number of times someone clicks on a link.
Don't worry if you've never used PHP before, there's nothing complicated about it. As long as you can upload files to your webspace you'll have no problem following these easy steps. It goes without saying that you also need PHP running on your server.
Go to PHPSuccessTools (see the resource box at the end for the URL), click "mailing list" in the navigation bar at the top and subscribe, then check your email for the password. This will give you full access to all the scripts that are available. Click on "Free Scripts" in the navigation bar and then click on "Tagged Click Tracker". Then fill out the form as follows:
"Password"
You should always choose a random combination of letters and numbers for your passwords, but to keep things simple for this example enter "showstats" as the password.
"Destination URL"
This is your ClickBank affiliate URL with a tracking ID appended to the end. It should look like this:
http://yourid.publisherid.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=[TAG]
Make sure you replace "y
In a recent article I wrote about the four influencers in a B2B sale. I then wrote an article about the Financial Influencer. In this article I want to focus on the User Influencer. As a quick revue, the four influencers are again.1. The Financial Influencer(s)2. The User Influencers3. The Gatekeeper(s)4. Your Champion or SponsorThis article will focus on the User Influencer.The User InfluencerAs you can readily surmise, this influencer is the person or group that will directly use your product or service. The role of this influencer is to make judgments on the impact your product and service will have on their job performance. It will either affect his job directly, and at least the people that work for him.The role this person or group plays in the evaluation process is,· This is the group using or supervising the use of your product or service.· You product or service will be personal
3% isn't bad, but hang on a minute - ClickBank only tells you there were 3 sales for the tracking ID "code1". You don't know there were 100 clicks on the link, and without this figure you can't calculate the conversion ratio. What if 500 people had clicked on the link? The conversion ratio would be just 0.6% (i.e. 0.6% of the 500 visitors became customers). Ideally you should only promote websites that have a relatively high conversion ratio. If you're promoting two different ClickBank products for example, and one has a conversion ratio of 1% and the other 4%, you'd be better off focusing your attention on the second one and ditching the first. You'll only know this if you can calculate the conversion ratio. Luckily, this problem is easily solved with the use of a simple click-tracker PHP script. The script simply counts the number of times someone clicks on a link.
Don't worry if you've never used PHP before, there's nothing complicated about it. As long as you can upload files to your webspace you'll have no problem following these easy steps. It goes without saying that you also need PHP running on your server.
Go to PHPSuccessTools (see the resource box at the end for the URL), click "mailing list" in the navigation bar at the top and subscribe, then check your email for the password. This will give you full access to all the scripts that are available. Click on "Free Scripts" in the navigation bar and then click on "Tagged Click Tracker". Then fill out the form as follows:
"Password"
You should always choose a random combination of letters and numbers for your passwords, but to keep things simple for this example enter "showstats" as the password.
"Destination URL"
This is your ClickBank affiliate URL with a tracking ID appended to the end. It should look like this:
http://yourid.publisherid.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=[TAG]
Make sure you replace "y
BackgroundDid you know that of the thousands of SBA 8a companies, there are only about 750 firms that are owned by caucasian women? Is is impossible to get certified? No. You just need to do your homework.Here is what the Small Business Administration (SBA) has to say... Who is considered socially disadvantaged? According to the SBA Web site: http://www.sba.gov/8abd/indexfaqs.html“Socially disadvantaged individuals are those who have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias because of their identity as members of a group. Social disadvantage must stem from circumstances beyond their control." In the absence of evidence to the contrary, individuals who are members of the following designated groups are presumed to be socially disadvantaged: • Black Americans • Hispanic Americans • Native Americans (American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, and Native Hawaiians) • Asian Pacific American
Don't worry if you've never used PHP before, there's nothing complicated about it. As long as you can upload files to your webspace you'll have no problem following these easy steps. It goes without saying that you also need PHP running on your server.
Go to PHPSuccessTools (see the resource box at the end for the URL), click "mailing list" in the navigation bar at the top and subscribe, then check your email for the password. This will give you full access to all the scripts that are available. Click on "Free Scripts" in the navigation bar and then click on "Tagged Click Tracker". Then fill out the form as follows:
"Password"
You should always choose a random combination of letters and numbers for your passwords, but to keep things simple for this example enter "showstats" as the password.
"Destination URL"
This is your ClickBank affiliate URL with a tracking ID appended to the end. It should look like this:
http://yourid.publisherid.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=[TAG]
Make sure you replace "y
With the internet becoming one of the most important source of doing business and of information exchange, it has become really important for almost all of the companies to have an internet interface. Due to the popularity of internet as compared to other platforms, it is now easier for the advertisers and marketers to market their products and services online. The online marketing methods may cost you a fortune sometimes but they always pay you back. If you want to advertise online, follow these ways and you will be successful in achieving your goal.First of all, it is important that you know your target market in detail. You must be sure about the kind of people who will be interested I your product or service. Then, you must be able to locate these people. For example, if you are selling hijaab online, you must know that the target market is the Muslim women and they are located in various easily identifiable areas of the world. Promote it accordingly. Choose a unique co
"Password"
You should always choose a random combination of letters and numbers for your passwords, but to keep things simple for this example enter "showstats" as the password.
"Destination URL"
This is your ClickBank affiliate URL with a tracking ID appended to the end. It should look like this:
http://yourid.publisherid.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=[TAG]
Make sure you replace "yourid" with your ClickBank ID and "publisherid" with the ClickBank ID of the merchant you're promoting.
"Optional Expiration"
Leave this box as it is, we don't want the link to expire.
"Name"
Enter "go" for this.
You can leave all the other boxes as they are, unless you understand what they do. Now hit "Submit". Follow the instructions on the next page, where you'll be asked to save several files onto your computer and then upload them to your webspace and change the permissions. Upload them to the same folder as your index.html page (as this is the page we're going to edit in a few moments).
If you've never changed file permissions before then there's a simple guide at PHPSuccessTools - just click on "Guides" in the navigation bar at the top.
In this example we're assuming that you're linking to a ClickBank affiliate URL on your index page, so instead of linking directly to ClickBank, change the link on your "index.html" page to this:
http://www.yourdomain.com/go.php?code1
Let's recap what we've done. We replaced the ClickBank affiliate link on your "index.html" page with a link that goes to the click-tracker script (called go.php). The click-tracker script, in turn, counts how many clicks the link gets and redirects the surfer to the actual ClickBank affiliate link.
Now we understand what's changed, lets see how it works. Note the tracking ID (code1) at the end of the click-tracker link:
http://www.yourdomain.com/go.php?code1
When somebody clicks on that link, the click-tracker looks at the destination URL (which you entered when the click-tracker was created) and replaces [TAG] with the tracking ID. So in actual fact, the destination URL becomes:
http://yourid.publisherid.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=code1
Now all you have to do is view the statistics for this click-tracker and you'll be able to see how many clicks your link got. The stats are available at this URL:
http://www.yourdomain.com/go.php?showstats
Now let's say that 100 people click on your new click-tracker link and 3 of them buy the product. By looking at your ClickBank stats you'll see that the tracking ID "code1" has produced 3 sales. If you look at your click-tracker stats you'll see that "code1" also generated 100 clicks. Use the two figures together and you can calculate the conversion ratio of 3%. In other words, 3% of the people you sent to the merchant actually bought the product.
The conversion ratio is important to know. There's no point sending traffic to a merchant that converts at 1%, when
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