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Is there a plugin that will track the referring website of redirects?

by rob-jones
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I do a lot of videos promoting various Clickbank affiliate products, and I do pretty well with them. However, until now, I have just been doing the redirects manually in the .htaccess file, but I want more information on what the referring site was, so I can replicate my most effective efforts, and cut back on the less effective efforts.

Does anyone know of a plugin or a method to track the referral URL? I just want to be able to tell what URL was responsible for each sale and hop.

Thanks!
Rob
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  • Profile picture of the author auradev
    Describe how the redirects work specifically?

    Video on siteA.com > siteB.com (redirectlink) > clickbank sales page?
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    • Profile picture of the author KEY
      since you are creating the links manually? you could
      just create a different redirect for each site with a
      different clickbank tracking ID.

      this could be a pain if you are leaving a LOT of links
      all over the net, and you will not get the actual raw
      traffic? you will get a more interesting statistic, and
      that would be which site is sending traffic that actually
      buys
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  • Profile picture of the author Gail Sober
    If you are already using htaccess, you could continue to do that but append with the tracking code that clickbank allows you to use.

    Code:
    RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /go
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*) http://yourcbid.$1.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=$2 [L]
    Then instead of what you've been doing

    yourwebsite.com/go/productid

    you would go

    yourwebsite.com/go/productid/trackingcode

    Clickbanks tracking id character limit is 24 so keep that in mind

    Or you could just use a dash instead of the /
    ^(.*)-(.*)

    and have a url that looks like
    yourwebsite.com/go/productid-trackingcode

    examples...

    yourwebsite.com/go/SWGDIET-squidoo
    yourwebsite.com/go/SWGDIET-mysitename
    yourwebsite.com/go/SWGDIET-ezinearticles

    Anything within 24 characters that could help you determine where you should focus your efforts.

    Hope that made sense
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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
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      • Profile picture of the author rob-jones
        Originally Posted by auradev View Post

        Describe how the redirects work specifically?

        Video on siteA.com > siteB.com (redirectlink) > clickbank sales page?
        Yes, Auradev, that's correct.

        Originally Posted by KEY View Post

        since you are creating the links manually? you could
        just create a different redirect for each site with a
        different clickbank tracking ID.

        this could be a pain if you are leaving a LOT of links
        all over the net, and you will not get the actual raw
        traffic? you will get a more interesting statistic, and
        that would be which site is sending traffic that actually
        buys
        Key, I thought about that, but I am leaving a LOT of links all over the net, plus I submit my videos in batches, and I don't have the time or inclination to do each one individually.

        Originally Posted by Gail Sober View Post

        If you are already using htaccess, you could continue to do that but append with the tracking code that clickbank allows you to use.

        Code:
        RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /go
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*) http://yourcbid.$1.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=$2 [L]
        Then instead of what you've been doing

        yourwebsite.com/go/productid

        you would go

        yourwebsite.com/go/productid/trackingcode

        Clickbanks tracking id character limit is 24 so keep that in mind

        Or you could just use a dash instead of the /
        ^(.*)-(.*)

        and have a url that looks like
        yourwebsite.com/go/productid-trackingcode

        examples...

        yourwebsite.com/go/SWGDIET-squidoo
        yourwebsite.com/go/SWGDIET-mysitename
        yourwebsite.com/go/SWGDIET-ezinearticles

        Anything within 24 characters that could help you determine where you should focus your efforts.

        Hope that made sense
        Thanks Gail, that did make sense. I think that'll cause me the same issue though. I don't want to have to manually create a tracking ID for each site, because I am submitting the videos in batches to multiple sites. I would get more data about the referring links, but my speed and productivity would drop significantly. We're all in this business to work less right?

        Originally Posted by avenuegirl View Post

        You have a PM.
        Thanks Jill! That script looks like it'll do what I need! I'll give it a try.
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