Hey everyone, I just thought that I would make a quick post about tracking. I want to stress to newbies the importance of tracking as I know that many ebooks or guides out there that you may have bought do not go into tracking really apart from the more expensive ones and better courses. Why track? The importance of tracking is basically so that you can see what is working and what is not within any of your affiliate promotions. For example lets say you want to find out if its worth while you paying for advertising with a particular company adwords, adcentre etc you need to track each method of advertising that you have. This will show you what works and will save you time and money in the long run. Types of tracking! You can track your clickbank affiliate links by filling in the box below as I have made an example to hubpages: As you can see above I have simply named the id 'hub' so I know that if I make a sale it has came from hubpages. Then click on create and you will have a new hoplink like below, I recommend you create links for each place that you advertise so that you know what you need to improve on and what to leave out from your future promotions also. Keyword Tracking There are many reasons why you should keyword track. You can find new keywords that you are not targeting and you can also find out which keywords are not bringing in any sales. Newbies can implement this tip for free. A quick way to find out what keywords visitors are typing in to come to your website is by using a free service called statcounter.com it guides you through setting up your counter which also tracks the amount of people to view your website. Once it guides you through it is an easy process to cut and paste the code they give you onto your webpage. when you log into your statcounter account you can view how long visitors stay on each of your pages so you know what pages need improving and also what keywords are being entered to find your site. As soon as you know the keywords that people are typing in if you are not targetting those keywords then add them straight away. Hope this quick reference helps someone.
Tracking is must have for PPC, Add tid to hoplink is the simply method to track keyword, excel can be used to make a statistics.