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What do use to track Amazon Affiliate clicks?

by JoshKelly
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I'm setting up Amazon affiliate sites with wordpress and I'm looking for the best things to install for excellent tracking.


Have Google Analytics of course, but they don't track with link someone clicked on the page.

1. Want to see what people are clicking on
2. Want to see which links actually convert.

Thinking about heatmaps. Do you use them? Some seem expensive for many pages on many sites - you know a good cheap or free one?

Also, I'm also not keen on creating a new amazon tracking ID for every single link to see which ones actually convert.... Suggestions?

What do you use?

Thanks Guys! -Josh
#affiliate #amazon #clicks #track #tracking
  • Profile picture of the author tryingtolearn
    Google analytics can be used to track which links on your website page is being clicked by which visitor, their location, source of traffic. But, it can't be used to track which clicks are finally converting on amazon.

    If you also want to know which links are being converted, you will have to use separate affiliate tag for each link on your site page.
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  • Profile picture of the author Melkur
    I'm pretty new to Amazon sites myself, so there may well be a better way to do this (in which case, I'd love to know what it is myself!) but I've used Statcounter on all my sites for a long time. There's an option to view Exit Link Activity, which shows clicks on links to Amazon - not sure how accurate it is, but it at least gives an idea.

    I haven't created tracking IDs for each link - wouldn't that be a massive task?? - but I've created one for sidebar banners, one for links at the top of a post, one for links in the middle of post, one for links at the bottom of a post. Each post uses the same structure, so over time you get to see which link positions are most effective.

    Of course, that depends on how your posts are structured - if they all follow much the same format then that will fit, if they don't, maybe not.
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    • Profile picture of the author JoshKelly
      Sounds like you can get somewhat better tracking that way. I'm a huge fan of putting links directly in the text. But I usually have many different links in the texts. I've found out some things through split testing, but it seems like there's so much information just at my finger-tips.

      I really believe that this business is all about throwing shit up there and then tracking it like crazy to see what works and what doesn't. I feel like I'm flying blind... Maybe a seperate tag for each is the way to go.

      Anybody have anything better than that? Less of a pain in the ass?

      Sidenote Tip: Quote a review or two and then say "but you should really read what John has to say in his review" (<-- link it with affiliate tag). It's worked wonders for me - try it yourself. Test it. See results.
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      • Profile picture of the author Melkur
        Originally Posted by JoshKelly View Post

        I really believe that this business is all about throwing shit up there and then tracking it like crazy to see what works and what doesn't. I feel like I'm flying blind... Maybe a seperate tag for each is the way to go.

        Anybody have anything better than that? Less of a pain in the ass?

        Sidenote Tip: Quote a review or two and then say "but you should really read what John has to say in his review" (<-- link it with affiliate tag). It's worked wonders for me - try it yourself. Test it. See results.
        Yep, the more data you have, the better it is, I guess.

        Thanks for that tip, I'll give that a try and see how it goes!
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  • Profile picture of the author JoshKelly
    Anyone know any good/free heat mapping software?

    This might need a new thread....
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  • Profile picture of the author tporritt
    This link might help
    www.linktrackr.com/blog/amazon-affiliate-link/
    All the best,
    Tporritt
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  • Profile picture of the author ratracegrad
    Amazon allows you to have up to 100 tracking IDs. You can create one for each page on your website and then use the tracking information in the daily reports from Amazon to see which tracking id was being clicked.
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