Hello Derek I read one of your posts in the warrior forum. I am sure you can help… I have a php code to cloak and redirect my affiliate links. Unfortunately, my hosting company doesn’t support php I found some meta refresh html code for affiliate link redirection… It works perfectly but how can I add some tracking? (note: I just want to know which of my blogs is making sales. No need to insert any code on my landing page). Thank you in advance for your advice Francesco
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Hey Francesco,
A simple way to add some tracking would be to use subid tracking with your affiliate link... You can just add the subid to each affiliate link for each blog... So you would have different meta refresh page for each blog and your subid would be something like blog1, blog2, etc...
Then you would know which blog is getting the sales when you pull the subid reports at your affiliate network.
You options are some what limited without PHP.
You could also use Tracking202 and setup direct linking links for each blog. Then instead of using the affiliate link in your meta refresh code, you would use the Tracking202 direct link.
Again you would setup a direct link for each blog.
That would also provide you with tracking info...
I hope that helps out...
Thanks,
Derek
Derek,
I will be using PPV to direct traffic to my landing which contains a visitor opt-in to build a list using AWeber. Once opted in, the visitor is directed to a third party site sales page. If they buy, I get a commission. However, I wanted to track any sales conversions using Prosper202. Is there any other methods to get this information other than placing a pixel on their sales confirmation page as I I need to contact them to see if I can do that. Thanks.
Don
Hey Don,
If the affiliate program supports Subid’s then you can track conversions… The only downside is it’s a manual process but it does work. Other then Subid’s (Manual) or Tracking Pixel (automagic) or Postback URL (automagic) there are no other ways to use Prosper202 to track conversions within the Prosper202 server itself.
I hope that helps out…
Thanks for leaving a comment,
Derek
Derek,
It sounds like these subids are similar to Clickbank’s tracking ids. With Clickbank you can put a tid=XXXXX on the end of your querystring in your affiliate link (where XXXXX can stand for anything that will help you track like prod1campaign1 to let you know that when a sales occurs its for product 1 using ad campaign 1). BTW, thanks for the prompt answering of my questions as I am new to affiliate marketing and am trying to learn as much as possible. I have a programming background but this marketing is another world entirely.
Don
Hey Don,
Most definitely… Most affiliate networks have some sort of subid tracking, for Clickbank it’s TID’s… Other networks use ‘s1=’ or ‘subid=’ or ‘c1=’ it varies by network. But in general it’s pretty easy to add a subid to your affiliate link within the different affiliate networks.
Then when you setup Prosper202 and add the subid placeholder it’ll automagically adds the XXX for you so you can track your links. It’s actually very slick how Prosper202 works. I love the server side integration.
You’re welcome… I’m glad to help out. There’s a bit of a learning curve to affiliate marketing. You’re programming background will come in real handy.
By the way which programming languages do you work with? Creating scripts and apps is big business, you might want to take advantage of it.
Thanks for leaving a comment,
Derek
Derek,
I finally found an affiliate network that has the campaign I want to run using a landing page. When using Prosper202 I noticed on the Affiliate Campaign Setup tab there is a subid tracking code which I used the querystring parameter from the affiliate network of subid1. However, when I go to the Get Links tab there are Tracking ID c1 thru c4. Can I just ignore those since have already set the subid in the Affiliate Campaign Setup tab? Thanks.
Don
Hey Don,
Yeah, the “C” variables c1 – c4 are for additional tracking you may want to do… They’re optional not mandatory.
Hope that helps…
Thanks,
Derek