Comments on: Why Not Tracking Your Campaigns can Cost you Money!

By: Seb

Seb — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:32:37 +0000

The problem with tracking is that most CPA companies doesnt allow to use actions on your landing pages, instead of that you need redirect visitors to their langing pages where the action form is placed. If the action form is placed on marchant landing pages I can’t check which keywords and from what pages traffic converts. That’s a big pain.

By: Amit

Amit — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:21:30 +0000

Which tracking service do you recommend? As far as I know Statcounter does IP address tracking..do you think its a good choice for anyone who doesn’t have deep pockets for a custome made stats tracking service?

By: CPA Affiliates

CPA Affiliates — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:50:29 +0000

You have a very valid point. You do have to keep your options open and this rule of thumb doesn’t just apply to US, maybe you are bidding on UK only and you get US traffic same rules apply you are paying for people from a specific country so you shouldn’t be expected to pay for traffic from any other country.

By: Dave Starr --- ROI Guy

Dave Starr --- ROI Guy — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:32:26 +0000

Interesting post. And an interesting subject, since a majority of affiliate marketers are based in the US and seem to think that the US -is_ the world … thus ignoring the vast majority of the world’s population … not all of whom are poor by the way.

Google knows how to deal with this issue seamlessly … Yahoo! has been struggling and fumbling with it for years now.

Here’s one example to keep in mind when you “hard code” blocks against non USA traffic.

I’m a US citizen who happens to chose to live in the Philippines. There are several hundred thousand from the US, Oz, UK and EU countries here like me. I have an average US level income and tend to buy as much as I can from US sources. There are at least as many expats like me in Thailand and significant numbers in other Aisan countries … not to mention thousands of highly-paid engineers and managers working here and in India in the call center industry (the press neber reports how many lucrative overseas jobs that have been created by “off shore” job movements). And several times as many Western professionals in Iraq, Qtar, et al in support of the Iraq war … people with tons of funds and no place to spend them.

Anyway, some offers of course can’t be of use to anyone not physically present in the US, but many can, and that’s my point … think through the full ramification of blocking people from offers strictly by IP address.

By: CPA Affiliates

CPA Affiliates — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:17:55 +0000

Mine is setup server side, so wether i redirect or send them to a site on my server I capture their Ip info etc.. into a database. but i also tag the subid in affiliate link with an assigned tag for tracking purposes.

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:03:01 +0000

Awesome post. i’ve been meaning to inquire more about this. Is this something such as a particular URL that use use for destination PPC URLs that captures the data and stores it in a database as the user gets redirected to the destination?