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Article Marketers - How Do I track Traffic Coming From My Articles?

by Craig Kaiser
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Hi,

I need help from all you expert article marketers here. I'm just getting started with article marketing and will be submitting to the directories.

My question is : how do I track traffic that comes from clicking the links in the resource box?

I know using a service like bit.ly may be looked at as an affiliate link, which is not allowed on some directories, like EZA, for example.

Any good ways you guys and gals use to track your traffic?

Thanks in advance!

Craig
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
    There are lots of ways. Off the top of my head, use Google Analytics on
    all your opt in and sales pages.

    If you're promoting affiliate products, create a custom script on your own domain. Either that, or there are plenty of 3rd party tracking scripts that
    you can upload to your site.

    There are plenty of options. Just choose the one that you feel is best
    suited for you.
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    • Profile picture of the author Craig Kaiser
      Hi Steven,

      Thanks for the suggestions.

      So, in my links in the resource box, I can link to a tracking script or service, and that will be okay with the directories, including EzineArticles?

      Might sound like a dumb question, but I'm new at this, lol.

      Craig
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  • Profile picture of the author ajbarnes777
    If direct linking, I use a specific tracking i.d. with each forwarding domain. If I am using a lander, I have tracemyip tracking service installed on my site so I would be able to match up the visitor to the information in clickbank sales stats (for example: Susan B. from Canada arrived on my site at 8:30 a.m. from an EzineArticle according to tracemyip.com, and there was a sale posted on clickbank at 8:44 a.m. from Canada). This gives me an idea of which articles, websites, directories, etc. are bringing in the dough.

    It may not be 100% accurate, but for the most part it does work.
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  • Profile picture of the author yommys01
    If you have awbstats on your cpanel then you can easily track which urls is sending you articles.

    You can also use google analytic and site meter to find where you traffic is coming from - the exact url will be given to you.
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  • Profile picture of the author mrmatiesto
    I am also interested in this subject.

    Does anyone recommend a software to use
    or a way to track clicks from the article links
    that won't get flagged as an affiliate link?

    Jim
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  • Profile picture of the author b.super13
    I use bit.ly alot to track articles - seems to work ok
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  • Profile picture of the author CJ.Online
    Be careful with cloacking links to submit affiliate links to sites that don't allow them. I used to do that and it got my account deleted with no warning whatsoever, and I lost my content just like that.
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  • Profile picture of the author The_Archer
    Google Webmaster Tools... Go to Google and search for webmaster tools, click on the first organic listing. If you don't have an account with webmaster tools, go ahead and create one. Then you would need to upload a code to your website so yoursite will get indexed in less than a day.

    Then you can check regularly to see how many links are pointing to your website and you can also view where the links are coming from.

    As far as tracking, I don't bother with it but I use bit.ly for twitter only, I find that Google's webmaster tools is fantastic. Eventually you just get a feel for it.

    Personally, I don't like to alter my URL's when submitting to article directories. I find affiliate links in articles to be rather trashy and most people know that bit.ly and tiny url are a tool for affiliates and may no bother clicking.

    Besides, you want articles you show your website. If you use Bit.ly as a tracker, Google will start ranking your anchor text to bit.ly and not your site; while yoursite will get ranked for bit.ly as a search term...

    IE:

    Your Site Anchor (which is what people click on) goes to bit.ly (to enter tracking value) redirects to yoursite. Basically, bit.ly inherits your anchor text, while you inherit bit.ly's redirection.

    Trust me, article marketing is my strong point and done a lot of testing.
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    • Profile picture of the author chandan_dutta
      Originally Posted by The_Archer View Post

      Google Webmaster Tools... Go to Google and search for webmaster tools, click on the first organic listing. If you don't have an account with webmaster tools, go ahead and create one. Then you would need to upload a code to your website so yoursite will get indexed in less than a day.

      Then you can check regularly to see how many links are pointing to your website and you can also view where the links are coming from.

      As far as tracking, I don't bother with it but I use bit.ly for twitter only, I find that Google's webmaster tools is fantastic. Eventually you just get a feel for it.

      Personally, I don't like to alter my URL's when submitting to article directories. I find affiliate links in articles to be rather trashy and most people know that bit.ly and tiny url are a tool for affiliates and may no bother clicking.

      Besides, you want articles you show your website. If you use Bit.ly as a tracker, Google will start ranking your anchor text to bit.ly and not your site; while yoursite will get ranked for bit.ly as a search term...

      IE:

      Your Site Anchor (which is what people click on) goes to bit.ly (to enter tracking value) redirects to yoursite. Basically, bit.ly inherits your anchor text, while you inherit bit.ly's redirection.

      Trust me, article marketing is my strong point and done a lot of testing.

      I believe Craig Kaiser is asking about Traffic and not about the Backlinks. Both are completely different. Google Analytic is best to track Traffic. I am agree with you. We should use proper keyword in anchor text.

      Craig Kaiser, you can use Google Analytic and then go to Visitors Overview in your Google Analytic Account. There you will come to know from where you are getting more traffic.

      Regards,
      Chandan
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  • Profile picture of the author ContentArticleWriter
    As Steven said there are LOTS of ways to track which articles are driving the traffic. The ones I use the most are Google Analytics and I also set up an account with getclicky. I am certain there are other services, but those are the two I use often.
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  • Profile picture of the author tylerdrun
    Statcounter for traffic. Cb sales tracker for articles that are bringing in sales. Google analytics is overrated and isn't effective. Statcounter is ur best bet...
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