Affiliate Link Tracking

Hopefully every affiliate marketer is familiar with link tracking but for those whom are new to affiliate marketing thos is for you.  

Now every affiliate program has a way to track your leads and sales and report them and this is usually done via pixel tracking or with cookies.  Sounds great but what if you want the reports to include additional data that isn't available through the reports provided by the affiliate program you promote for or what if due to any number of reasons your stats are not being avcurately recorded.  Well thats why third parties offer affiliate link tracking solutions.  There are many out there and with a quick google search they can be found and tried until you find the one that suits you best.  There are also a few free options and even if there were not its definitely a must for any serious affiliate marketer.  So stop losing those hard earned commisions and start doing some tracking of your own now.

Using Free Reports to Build Your List

Aside from pre-selling your products and affiliated offers, the other purpose of your free viral report should be to build your mailing list.

This is because if you are unable to pre-sell, let alone sell, the products and services featured in your free report, the last ditch effort should be to collect leads. In short, if you cannot convert the reader into a ready buyer, you should then attempt to convert him or her into your subscriber.

In that manner, you can still follow up with your reader on future offers and have a chance at converting him or her into your customer, preferably lifetime.

You can do so by offering a lifetime update to your report or a unique notification list your reader will be interested in subscribing to, which leads to having him or her subscribed to your mailing list.

One of the few success factors in viral marketing of your free report is quality. If your readers find your information worth sharing, and you encourage them to do so by giving them the right to give your report away for free, you will be able to have your name, status and links within the report passed around without any effort on your part – simply because others are willing to do so for you!