Tracking EVERYTHING with Xtreme Conversions
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If you’re not tracking EVERYTHING you are probably loosing out on potential sales, simple as that. I use Xtreme Conversions (Yes, thats an affiliate link, hook me up or don’t, I dont care.) for all my tracking and it works great. Instead of beating around the bush and telling you need tracking for a bunch of reasons you probably already know about, I will simply explain how to set it up get it working.
Using XC you can generate a landing page PHP script that you simply add to your page, in almost all cases this works with no problems but for me it didn’t work and all that was wrong was that I did not have CURL enabled, after I enabled CURL it worked perfect.
In AdWords, your link will need to pass along the correct parameters so here is an example:
http://www.yoursite.com/LP/index.php?bid_keyword={keyword}&campaign=CampaignName&ad=Ad1
{keyword} = keyword the person searches in Google, it gets added to the URL and passed to your landing page where it is recorded by XC.
&campaign = Whatever your campaign name is you put that here so for other campaigns you change the name.
&ad = This is your ad name, I use something like AD1DT for First AD with a Dynamic Title or AD2ST for Second AD with Static Title. Since I split test my ADs there are never more then 2 running so tracking what one performs is easy.
On all my landing pages I use a php redirect to hide my affiliate links, that looks like this:
<?php
error_reporting(0);
$cookiename = ‘xconversions’;
$var = $_COOKIE[$cookiename];
?>
<?php
header (”Location:http://www.affiliatelink.com/xxxx?sub=$var”);
?>
This link adds the unique ID passed from Xtreme Conversions and adds it as the Sub Id of the affiliate link so when you look at your sub ids in your affiliate network it will show you a unique number for every click and conversion then all you do is match that unique number to the number in XC and it will tell you exactly what Campaign, AdGroup and Keyword converted.
Thats pretty much it. Tracking can be very frustrating to setup but it is vital to the success of any affiliate marketer, so if you have questions just post them here and I will do my best to help everyone.
How Web Analytics Can Improve Your Affiliate Marketing Business
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This guest post is written by Emilia from AffiliateTips.com. AffiliateTips is a resource for anyone who is interested in getting started with affiliate programs or read reviews of programs in all the top paying niches like casino affiliate programs.
How Web Analytics Can Improve Your Affiliate Marketing Business
If you have an affiliate marketing business, you are probably accustomed to using your sales reports to track your success. While this type of report is important, you may be overlooking one of the most important tools for improving your affiliate marketing results. Web analytics is a high-powered information tool that offers detailed data about your website, your customers and your marketing efforts.
How exactly can web analytics improve your affiliate marketing business? By understanding user behavior, you can use this data to adjust your affiliate marketing strategy. If, for example, you notice that one page of your website is far more popular than others, you might consider creating content that is similar or highly related to that page. While it may take some time to truly understand your analytics reports, the time spent will be well worth it in the long run.
Consider How Many People Visit Your Website
According to many affiliate marketing experts, website traffic is essential to effectively promote products and make sales. Web analytics offers detailed information about your site traffic, from the number of visitors per day to how many pages users view per session.
Start by carefully tracking this information in order to understand exactly how people are utilizing your website. Look for trends, such as traffic spikes on certain days of the week. If you do notice a consistent trend in your traffic reports, use this information to help promote your site. For example, if your website tends to generate more traffic on Mondays, be sure to highlight your best affiliate offer in prominent location on that particular day.
Assess Incoming Links
One of the best ways to optimize your website for search engines is to get a lot of incoming links from other high quality sites in your industry. When you look at your web analytics, spend some time noting how many other sites are linking to yours and how much traffic enters your site via these links. If there are relatively few sites linking to yours, invest some time and energy into a link building campaign. If you have many incoming links from low-quality websites, create a greater link balance and spend time cultivating relationships with some of the top-ranked sites in your field.
Analyze Landing Pages
The landing page is the first page your viewers see on your site. While people often think of the home page as the primary landing page, it is important to realize that almost any page on your site can become a landing page. If viewers find your site via an online search, chances are that they will land on a specific content sub-page of your site.
As you look at your web analytics, determine which pages serve as the most popular landing pages on your site. Next, optimize those pages carefully by including links to related information or products at the bottom of every page.
Web analytics can be an important tool to improve your affiliate marketing business, but only if you understand the data and know how to act upon it effectively. Start tracking your website data today and establish a basis on which to compare future data. In addition to making improvements to your marketing strategy, web analytics also provides a useful way to measure your progress and keep track of your affiliate success.
Affiliate Marketing and MeetUp.com
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Well, the hammer from MeetUp.com has come down. In a recent letter from them here is what they said:
 Hello,
Your Meetups recently came to our attention. Upon review, we’ve found them to be primarily for the purpose of promoting a service, advertising merchandise, or otherwise highlighting a commercial offer, which is against our Terms of Service.
As a result of our inquiry into this matter, we will be closing your Meetups within the next 24-48 hours, refunding your subscription and closing your account.
We thank you for your interest in Meetup and apologize that we are not able to serve your needs at this time.
Sincerely,
Meetup.com
I was shocked to see that they are refunding my subscription but I’m not complaining about it.
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