Tracking affiliate conversions?

squeebo · 26th Nov 2016, 07:49 PM

As an advertiser I'm having trouble tracking the value of my blog posts in terms of affiliate conversions.

I'm in a niche where I'm doing affiliate advertising for 14 merchants. That will increase, maybe up to 20 eventually. They're through shareasale, CJ, a few other networks, and non-network programs.

The problem is I create new blog posts regularly, and it's not obvious which posts send the clicks that convert. Some of my pages can drive towards multiple merchants, and I have multiple pages that drive towards a given merchant. With shareasale and a couple others I can pass IDs in the link, but other programs don't have that option.

What do you do to track conversion sources when you have multiple pages driving towards the same merchant?

Maybe it's hopeless unless I can pass IDs?

I'm running Wordpress.

gmatos · 27th Nov 2016, 04:30 AM

Hi mate,

The best way to do this is to link Google Analytics to your website.

Once you are on Analytics, you want to go to Reporting - Behaviour - Behaviour Flow.

On Behaviour flow you will see what pages on your website is being viewed more and which converts to what page.

shim333 · 29th Nov 2016, 02:55 AM

Originally Posted by gmatos

Hi mate,

The best way to do this is to link Google Analytics to your website.

Once you are on Analytics, you want to go to Reporting - Behaviour - Behaviour Flow.

On Behaviour flow you will see what pages on your website is being viewed more and which converts to what page.

In every blog post you can create special traking link that when conversion happend you know which post make you a sale.

For use it you can use
1 - Google tag maneger
2 - prosper202
3 - clickmagick

26th Nov 2016, 07:49 PM	#1
squeebo HyperActive Warrior Join Date: 2014 Posts: 122 Thanks: 126 Thanked 9 Times in 6 Posts	Tracking affiliate conversions? Share on: As an advertiser I'm having trouble tracking the value of my blog posts in terms of affiliate conversions. I'm in a niche where I'm doing affiliate advertising for 14 merchants. That will increase, maybe up to 20 eventually. They're through shareasale, CJ, a few other networks, and non-network programs. The problem is I create new blog posts regularly, and it's not obvious which posts send the clicks that convert. Some of my pages can drive towards multiple merchants, and I have multiple pages that drive towards a given merchant. With shareasale and a couple others I can pass IDs in the link, but other programs don't have that option. What do you do to track conversion sources when you have multiple pages driving towards the same merchant? Maybe it's hopeless unless I can pass IDs? I'm running Wordpress.

27th Nov 2016, 04:30 AM	#2
gmatos Warrior Member Join Date: 2016 Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Tracking affiliate conversions? Share on: Hi mate, The best way to do this is to link Google Analytics to your website. Once you are on Analytics, you want to go to Reporting - Behaviour - Behaviour Flow. On Behaviour flow you will see what pages on your website is being viewed more and which converts to what page.