LeadsLeap is a website which offers great services and tools for online marketers. One of the most popular tool is the link tracker.
When you create a link tracker you get something like this:
What is very interesting about this link is that it offers the possibility to track the visits you get, helping you a lot to optimize your promotional efforts.
...Why I'm writing this post? Because I run a text ad exchange and a few free advertising sites and I see that a lot. People submitting ads to my sites are simply ignoring this useful feature, I just can't understand why, it is very clearly explained on the site.
How it works? Just add a text to the end of the link, indicating your source of traffic. Let's say you want to promote this link on three places: a traffic exchange=HungryForHits, a viral mailer=Affiliate-traffic.website and a free adboard. All you have to do is to insert text clues at the end of the link, like this:
https://lllpg.com/2dtwddzs/hungryforhits
https://lllpg.com/2dtwddzs/afftrafficsite and
https://lllpg.com/2dtwddzs/3x3x3
After the campaign is ended, you can see what site performed better and use it again, dropping sites that performed bad.
So, why is this useful? It's very simple, because I see from these stats that I need to quit using HungryforHits - the biggest number of visits with no results and concentrate on afftraffsite, (which by the way is Affiliate-traffic.website) because it brought me a subscriber to my list, despite the much smaller number of visitors.
Do not shoot in the dark, target your campaign for better results.
So, in the image above you can see some interesting stats. But what is Convert A and Convert B? I'll explain these in another article.
