Clickbank Transaction Analytics Beta
More news on the Clickbank front… Clickbank’s transaction analytics beta is a tool that allows both vendors and affiliates to analyze and aggregrate transaction detail by timeframe, tracking code, vendor, affiliate, or product. Results are sortable and can be downloaded in CSV format.
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Clickbank Tracking Enhancements (TID)
Clickbank has a new promotion tracking enhancement that allows affiliates to add an 8-character tracking code to the hoplink and order process, which provides the ability to accurately track and manage your campaigns.
Key features of this enhancement are:
- Allows affiliates to add a code to the hoplink process for promotion tracking
- Captures promotion tracking code during the order process
- Displays the promotion tracking code in the transaction report(s)
So, if you sell an ebook by linking directly to the merchant from Google Adwords, on your site and through your newsletters, you can add an individual tid (tracking ID’s) to each link.
For example, if you are selling the Super Affiliate Handbook, the link that goes out in your newsletter might look like:
http://xxxxxx.webvista2.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=sahemail
Where as the affiliate link on your site could be:
http://xxxxxx.webvista2.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=site
Happy tracking!
Cheers,
Ros
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Working the Web from Nigeria
Here is a question that I received from Samuel in Nigeria:
Greetings Dear Rosalind,
I bought your Super Affiliate Handbook and I really like it. It is highly informative when compared to Googlecash.
Anyway, I am from Nigeria and I love everything about making money on the Internet. I operate a website and have a growing subscriber list which is all about empowering Nigerians through the Internet. Because of my desire to make money on the net and to assist fellow Nigerians who come to my website to subscribe, I have to be properly informed through seminars, information products and most importanly veterans like you.
Now, one of the problems besieging most people in Nigeria is… Read more
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Merchants: PLEASE Keep Your Links Updated
Cheese me. I was in the Linkshare interface the other night getting Allzine links for blog posting about on the Roamsters.com site. Thirty magazines were returned in the Travel & Leisure category. I grabbed about ten of them, creating ten draft posts with magazine pictures and titles and planned to write descriptions of them later.
Well, good thing I clicked on some of those links. More than half of them no longer exist in Allzine’s product database. Really, when I searched the Travel & Leisure category within Allzines itself, only 9 magazines were returned, meaning that 21 TWENTY-ONE!!!! of the Linkshare links were no good.
Of the nine that WERE good, some of them had broken graphics.
Lesson to affiliates: Check the merchant’s site first to see whether or not the product is still offered. It’s a hassle, I know, but better than wasting your time putting up product links that don’t work and thereby frustrating your visitors.
Suggestion to merchants: Kindly make sure your product links are up to date!
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Thanksgiving: Keep the Focus on Giving
For millions of Americans, (Canadians too) the Thanksgiving holidays are a time spent with loved ones around feast-filled tables and expressing gratitude for the past year’s blessings.
It is also a time to remember those around the world who are less fortunate. Although tomorrow is Black Friday - the hottest sales day of the year - today (tomorrow and always) let’s keep the focus on giving.
Here are 4 ways you can give more this holiday season:
- While doing your holiday shopping is to look for merchants who donate a portion of their proceeds to charity.
- As an affiliate, do your best to promote those merchants. Look too for charities that sell online, such as Unicef (a Commission Junction merchant).
- Give a portion of your virtual real estate to promote charities such as the Red Cross.
- Last but not least, sign up for one program and designate your favorite charity as the recipient.
I wish you all a happy and safe Thanksgiving holiday!
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BeachBody Affiliate Program to Close Doors
I just received notice that Beachbody will retire it’s LinkShare affiliate program as of December 15th, 2006.
Beachbody was one of LinkShare’s very first merchants back in early 1997 when Neil Evans started Guthy-Renker’s network, which now includes programs such as Tony Robbins: Get The Edge®, Proactiv® Solution
, Winsor Pilates
and Sheer Cover
.
Be sure to remove your Beachbody links by December 15th and Linkshare will cut final checks in January/early February.
Sad to see you go!
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Are You Going to Affiliate Summit West?
Please let me know if you’ll be attending Affiliate Summit West 2007 (through Comments below) and we’ll arrange a get-together during the conference. If you haven’t yet registered, I suggest that you do so soon, as the conference is quicly heading for a sell-out.
Check out the Affiliate Summit West 2007 site and you’ll see these transcripts from Affiliate Summit 2006 East held last July in Orlando posted at the bottom of the homepage:
- Affiliate Marketing Legal Issues (panel)
- Benefits and Liabilities of Coupon Affiliates (panel)
- Co-Opetition, Comparison Sites and Conversion: Lessons Learned From The Adult Online Playbook (Jim Lillig)
- Introduction to Affiliate Marketing for Affiliates (panel)
- Introduction to Affiliate Marketing for Merchants (panel)
- Lessons Learned (11 speakers)
- Loyalty Affiliates: Loyal Allies or Evildoers? (W. Kimathi Marangu)
- Straight Talk on Search Engine Optimization (Wil Reynolds)
- Blogging Best Practices: Maximizing Your Success (Dave Taylor)
I hope to see you there - at the best conference in the affiliate marketing industry.
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Amazon Pays Referral Fees on Gift Certificates
I learned this morning that Amazon.com
Referrals from Amazon Gift Certificates will earn a flat 6% referral rate. Affiliates will still earn the 6% referral fee even if visitors click on a product they are promoting and buy a Gift Certificate instead.
Two downsides - Gift certificates will not count toward unit tiers and the promotion lasts only through December 31, 2006.
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How Do I Connect My Site and My Blog?
Here’s a question about blogging that I got from Damon L.
Ros,
I have this Wprdpress blog and this website.
How do I connect the two, ie, superimpose the blog on the website?
Read my answer… Read more
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Black Friday Holiday Shopping Webinar
Join Jeremy Palmer and I for a special 1-hour Holiday Shopping webinar on Black Friday, November 24th at 8PM Eastern, 5PM Pacific.
We’ll talk about everything you need to do as an affiliate to prepare for the upcoming holiday shopping season. This is a can’t miss call and the recording will not be publicly posted later.
Click here to register for our Webinar.
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