Tracking links

Yes. There are many tracking solutions, but I recommend Tracking202.

It's a LITTLE confusing when you first look at it, but it's free and has been one of the standards for professional tracking for a long while now.

It's probably a little overkill for what you want, but it wouldn't hurt to learn it for when you need that power.

You can setup tracking links for any site and add your own subIDs so you can see where traffic is coming from.

So for example, you'd add your site to the tracking like this:
http://mysite.com/?=
(you need the ?= in tracking202 if you're using your own sites)

Then, you can have it spit out a link to which you can append any subid.

So for one article, you would have your link and you'd write "article1" or "articletitle" at the end. Whatever you wanted to put at the end so that it looked not only legitimate, but so that YOU will know where that link is pointing to.

These links will now track the amount of clicks.

And for when you get a little more tracking heavy, you have also have it track the CONVERSIONS each article is making you by using pixels that are available in it.

But for now, just get the basic tracking down.

Don't be overwhelmed by it. This will do exactly what you want and more.

What blog platform are you using? If you are using wordpress, pretty link plug in is free and will track total hits and uniques. This will allow you to keep your URL descriptive. The free version does not allow cloaking which was taken out of the free version because of and issue with the TOS with Wordpress.com. I have the older version which I still use. PM me and I will send it to you.

Google analytics will also do the job. There is a plugin called Google Analytics link Builder for WP that will hook into your google analytics account and track links. Again, Free.

You can also use bit.ly. Its free and works well but the urls look like crap.

So there is a few ideas.

Kevin

To be honest, tracking traffic direct from articles, while possible, can reduce the effectiveness of article marketing - for example, many publishers prefer to link to a straight domain rather than anything that looks like tracking code on the end of a URL, eg. it can end up looking at first glance like an affiliate link.

A better approach is simply to use your site's traffic logs to see where traffic is coming from, rather than trying to do anything with the URL from the article, it can be self-defeating.

is this way also work for press release ?

If you have a profile created within Google Analytics (GA) for your blog, a relevant GA Wordpress (WP) plugin and the script in your WP site, then you will be able to see 'Referral traffic' within your 'Traffic Sources' tab in GA.

That's in it's most basic form.

Now if you want to get even more detailed and if you have the ability to append your own tracking code onto the articles urls in question then you should consider looking at Google's URL tool builder. Using this tool you take the base url for say article#1 and provide four (you can use up to 6) parameters to allow you to track it how you want.

It's dead easy! Feel free to shout back if you need more help.

Thanks,

Richard.

You just simply need to TRACK your clicks. There are a few solutions out there, Bevo Media is definitely the best, and its free.

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Tracking Links will let you analyze and see exactly where the traffic is coming from, then the program automatically analyzes your rate of return from all sources.