Keep track of all your traffic sources
Suppose you visit 20 blogs everyday and comment there to bring traffic back to your blog. If you track how much visitors each of those blogs brings then you’ll be quite surprised by the result. Probably 4 of those blogs will bring the same number of visitors as 16 of other blogs combined. If you already knew those kind of data, then will you have spent time on 16 of those blogs? Of course not. Also, instead of wasting time posting on those 16 blogs you can find more high performing blogs like those 4 blogs and see your blog’s visitors grow day by day.
That is just one example. I can show you many such examples where you might be simply wasting your time because you don’t know what’s the actual result is produced by which of your effort. You might be seeing the overall results but not the exact result which is produced by your individual activities.
Now, the question is how to track which of your promoting activity is actually producing the results for you?
Don’t get freak out by thinking that I’m going to start speaking in some technical language which a rocket engineer can only understand.
You don’t have to deal with heavy stats software for tracking your progress. You can do it simply by creating tracking link as well. This can give you all the basic stats which will be helpful for you to track exactly what’s the result producing action is.
From now on, instead of dropping your regular link in other blogs/forums/other websites start dropping your tracking link there. Tracking link will automatically track how many people visited your blog and from which websites.
And if you own MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate, then here is how you can create tracking links:
Step 1: Click on “Add New Link”
Step 2: Fill in your link name, affiliate link/blog link and enter the final ninja link you want to produce
Step 3: Your tracking link is ready to use
Now you can use this link for tracking the clicks on it. You can use this link wherever you need to leave your link. It will automatically track from where visitors are coming from as well as how many visitors clicked that link.
You can even separate the stats by dividing the stats into sub campaigns. With sub-campaigns, you can track different traffic sources independently and you can know which ones are really making it to the biggg times and which are not. Know which forums or blogs are worth promoting and which are not. You know you could just be wasting your precious time in something really unproductive.
For example: Let’s say, you are getting huge traffic from two websites A & B, and want to track the activity from those websites separately in detail.
What you can do is, instead of using same tracking link, you can use separate sub-campaigns for both websites.
You can easily create sub-campaigns by adding “-” sign at the end of tracking link followed by the sub campaign name.
Here is an example:
Suppose, my tracking link is:
http://www.maxblogpress.com/demo2/go/maxblogpress
and I want to create separate sub campaign for Website A. I can do this easily by adding “a” at the end like this:
http://www.maxblogpress.com/demo2/go/maxblogpress-a
In the stats, the sub campaigns a and b will be tracked separately.
Just like a Ninja can keep track of what he has been assigned for, MaxBlogPress Ninja
Affiliate helps you track of all your affiliate links. Create the subcampaigns you want and
make them look organized. Know how far your blog has progressed.
You’ll soon be able to determine the time eater and the result producer. Then the only thing you’ll have to do is do more of the result producer and dump the time eater.
Don’t get doomed even if your best affiliate program shuts its door when you’ve best promoted it
Imagine that you are an affiliate of a very good affiliate program which is paying you hefty commissions. You’ve aggressively promoted an affiliate link in forums, blogs and various places. Now suddenly, the product you’re promoting discontinued or changed and it no longer gives you the commission for sending visitors to their website.
What will you do?
Products get discontinued = your affiliate links are useless
Also, what if product owner announce that he’s migrating to a new affiliate software and that you have to update all your links ASAP in order to continue getting commissions?
What will you do?
Product owner changes affiliate programs = your affiliate links are useless
And last but not least, what if you’ve scattered links all over the place only to find the product doesn’t convert? You’ve found a better replacement but who’s going to do the dirty job of locating and updating all of the links?
What will you do?
Product isn’t selling = your affiliate links are useless
Can you change all the hundreds of links that you’ve already spreaded out to lots of places in the web? Of course not! You’re in total loss and in some serious trouble.
Now the question is How do you get THRU this trouble?
Don’t get freak out by thinking that I’m going to start speaking in some technical language which a rocket engineer can only understand.
You don’t have to deal with heavy affiliate management software for managing your affiliate links. The only thing that you need to do is stop spreading regular affiliate links (e.g. http://www.someshoppingcart.com/affiliateid=3i4ud98fdf&merchant_id=934idf5 )
With MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate, you can simply replace regular affiliate links with Ninja Link and just be relieved, join another similar affiliate program and simply replace the old link by the new link from Ninja Affiliate back office. That’s all. There’s nothing to lose and no hurdle to tackle with. It’s easy.
MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate allows you to change the link with another affiliate program so that no deep trouble comes between you and your affiliate links. Don’t get lost if an affiliate merchant is no longer available or if the affiliate website you are promoting has been shut down.
So what if one affiliate program shuts down its door, you have the option and THE tool to easily change the link with another affiliate program – MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate of course.
Make your URL get clicked more: Go for professional and smart-looking links
In any type of marketing, the universal rules of professionalism holds true. People will always choose to do business with the establishment that is updated, clean, friendly, and has a pleasant outlook. The first glance is powerful, and people judge a book by it’s cover even if they will never own up to it. Good impressions last, bad impressions spread. Enough said.
So what’s this got to do with you as an affiliate marketer, trying to convince people to click on your affiliate links and make a purchase, sending you some much-appreciated commissions?
Everything!
The most obvious sin committed by affiliates is that they don’t bother to “dress up” or “package” their affiliate links. They proudly display long, horrible affiliate links that they will never be able to dictate on the phone, something like this:
http://www.someshoppingcart.com/affiliateid=3i4ud98fdf&merchant_id=934idf5
Compare that URL to the one below; which one would you click?
http://www.yourblog.com/recommends/boostyourtraffic
The choice is obvious, you’ll choose the second one. Nobody likes clicking a hideous,
meaningless link.
Look at the following links again:
http://www.yourblog.com/go/affiliateproduct
http://www.yourblog.com/recommends/affiliateproduct
http://www.yourblog.com/goto/affiliateproduct
http://www.yourblog.com/ninja/affiliate/power/affiliateproduct
http://www.yourblog.com/anything_you_like/affiliateproduct
What do these above links reveal? –Professionalism and meaningfulness indeed!
But why bother to be professional?
The truth is no one likes to click on ugly affiliate links with strings of codes that do not register with the average human brain (if you’re a programmer, you’re exempted) and therefore do not mean anything to them.
Professional link makes your URL out-stand and increases your CTR or Click-Through-Rate which means you can probably make more affiliate sales without getting any more traffic than you are right now.
What if you can instantly create such professional looking short links?
The picture below shows how easy it is to turn the BAD into the GOOD with the MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate plugin for WordPress.
With MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate, you CAN create smart-looking, meaningful links just the way you want your URLs to be received. Make an impression of professionalism through your URLs and also notice a drastic rise in the Click through Rate for your links.
Remember that professionalism pays, and it pays big. Do it right, and the world will open new doors for you.