Clickbank:How To Track Your Sales

Up until very recently, tracking where your sales came from was a real pain. Why should you even bother doing such a thing? Well, so you can see what promotions are working and which ones are not.

Suppose you’re running a Google Adwords campaign. Wouldn’t you like to know if sales are coming your way from that promotion or whether your advertising budget is simply going down the Swannee?

The old way of tracking sales was to create a new Clickbank ID for each type of promotion and use a hoplink with that ID specifically for each promotion.So you might have

http://adw123.moresw.hop.clickbank.net

for your Adwords campaign for the product. Then you’d have

http://email123.moresw.hop.clickbank.net

for your email promotions and so on.

Obviously there are several problems with this:

1. You have to create numerous Clickbank IDs
2. The IDs are most likekly going to be gibberish rather than meaningful
as all the meaningful names are probably already in use
3. You’ll forget what particular IDs relate to, especially if you
haven’t used them in a while
4. You end up with a load of accounts you have to log into individually (all with their own unique passwords)

so it takes an age to check what accounts are earning So when Clickbank announced it was going to add the option to allow tracking codes to be added to hoplinks, affiliates rejoiced!

Adding a tracking code is simple. You simply add ?tid=XXXXXXXX to the end of your hoplink. You replace XXXXXXXX with some combination of letters and numbers that mean something to you. And it doesn’t matter if someone else is using the same code because the codes are attached to your unique hoplink!

There are a few rules to using Tracking Codes:

·  Tracking codes can only be 8 characters long
·  They can contain alpha and numeric characters only
·  Any tracking code longer than 8 characters will be truncated
·  Any tracking code containing characters other than alpha or numeric
values will have the entire tracking code removed from the
hoplink and order process and will not show up in your transaction
report
·  Tracking codes received with upper and lower case characters
will be set to all uppercase.

To check where your sales are coming from, log into your account, click on the Reporting tab and then on the Analytics subtab. You’ll be able to check your Tracking Codes under the Affiliate Reporting section.

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