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The ad tracker was originally developed to provide a record of all hits to a site resulting from ad placements. This article shows a host of different ways to utilise an ad tracker.


FOR AFFILIATES


#1. The Long Url Problem


Have you ever seen an ad where you are asked to click on an affiliate URL so long that it stretches over 2 lines Cheap Sammy Watkins Jersey , like this


http: 35&subid=89715


Do you think your reader will bother to do the necessary cut and paste to put it in a browser?


Probably not.


And that's probably one lost sale.


And even a one line affiliate link may exceed the permissible length for some ad posting requirements.


The solution: use a short tracking URL.


#2. Losing Your Affiliate Code


As an affiliate you may have your affiliate code embedded in a link something like this:


customers will bypass the affiliate code and just type in the home URL (possibly because they think that they will be paying extra for an agent's commission)


The solution: use a tracking URL - so that your affiliate code number is never seen.


#3. Make Your Ad Stand Out


You may have seen search engine results showing near identical listings for the same product, differing only in an affiliate code appended to the URL.


Your listing here will be just one of many unless you make it stand out. So bypass the standard affiliate URL and use a tracking URL.


#4. How Effective Are The Links


You can measure and compare the effectiveness of the different banners or text links the affiliate programs provide you by using a tracking URL.


#5. Changing Links


If an affiliate company change their links then your existing ads, wherever they are posted Cheap Anthony Hitchens Jersey , become worthless. But if you use a tracking URL you simply revise the affiliate URL at the tracking control centre.


#6. Affiliate Program Discontinued


Similarly if an affiliate program is discontinued you just change your tracking URL to a new page where you explain the circumstances and point your visitor to your other promotions.


#7. Better Affiliate Stats


Not all affiliate programs provide you with stats about visitors. And if they do are they adequate ?


Compare a basic monthly figure say


- Jan: 39 hits


with a detailed analysis such as


- Jan 12: 10 hits


- Jan 13: 2 hits


- Jan 20: 21 hits


- Jan 21: 6 hits


where you can relate those dates to particular ad campaigns.


Tracking URLs will give you these improved figures.


#8. Checking Affiliate Stats


Even if you do receive good stats from your affiliate program it still makes sense to use tracking URLs so that you can compare your figures with theirs.


A large discrepancy could mean errors in their software or (hopefully not) fraudulent activity on their part.


An alternative reason is that their measurement takes place when their page is fully loaded rather than at the start, indicating that visitors are clicking away because it is taking too long to load.


FOR EZINE PUBLISHERS


#9. Win Advertisers With Tracking Reports


If you sell advertising space in your ezine you can offer to your advertisers to replace their URLs with your tracking URLs and Email them the results.


Tell your advertisers about these benefits in your advertising guidelines


- They will know the number of clickthroughs their ad has generated. They can then decide how to improve the ads for better performance


- If they use a tracker program with your own domain name in the tracking URL your ezine subscribers will be more inclined to click


- They can use your ezine as a test centre, modifying their ads until they are happy Cheap Kendall Fuller Jersey , before launching with other publishers


#10. Use Tracking Report Results


The tracking reports above will provide you with information on your subscribers' interests, influencing your editorial content and helping you select which potential advertisers to approach


Also, once your advertisers have seen for themselves the benefits of an ad tracking program they will be inclined to purchase one. So set yourself up as an affiliate for a program and promote it to them.


#11. Measure Your Readership


You may know how many subscribers you have but how many actually open and read your ezine and which parts of it attract most attention ?


Here's how to find out if you distribute your ezine in HTML Format: include an image on your page Cheap Eric Murray Jersey , e.g a banner or logo or a single pixel GIF. Then reference this image with a tracking URL.


For an ezine distributed as plain text it is not possible to see if it is actually opened or read. But what you can do is insert tracking URLs at the appropriate points, such as product offers or special articles, and get comparative figures for which items are being read.


AT YOUR WEB SITE


#12. The Problem Of Permanent URLs


Web sites are continually evolving and changing.


You may want to rename a page to make it more consistent and logical but there's a huge problem. You have given out the URL in an ebook Cheap Terrance Smith Jersey , or a directory submission, or an article or wherever. There's no way you can undo this.


The solution ?


Never provide the actual URL, just a tracking URL. You can then just edit the link at the tracking centre whenever a page is moved or renamed.


The external links Cheap Xavier Williams Jersey , in your ebook for example, stay the same but they will redirect to your new page.


#13. What Are Your Visitors Doing ?


You have text links all over your site, links to your other pages and links to recommended sites.


Where are your visitors clicking ?