WHO USES LinkTrackr???

10 years ago

I think you should try hypertracker. It has a very simple interface, does everything you should need it to do, and is very easy to use

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rpspartan92 10 years ago

I've used hyper tracker a bit. The only problem with that was it didn't keep track of my sales. Only my clicks. I am not sure if it's something I did but I made sure I included the sales to be tracked too.

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- stackz9front 10 years ago
  
  I never really tracked my sales. But from looking on there now I can see that if you click integration it ask you all about your sales product so im thinking this has something to do with tracking sales. Sorry I couldnt answer your question all the way
  
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  Dan Grossman 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by stackz9front
  
  I never really tracked my sales.
  
  There's little point in tracking anything if you're not tracking the right things. You'll end up optimizing the wrong metric and potentially throwing away money.
  
  How many clicks a link gets is not an important number. You can't pay your bills with clicks. An ad that generates $1000 from 10 clicks is a good ad. An ad that generates $0 from 1000 clicks is a bad ad. It doesn't matter if those clicks cost more or less than the other ad.
  
  How many sales and how much revenue a specific ad, keyword, landing page or other dimension has generated for you is important. That's what you need to know to decide what traffic sources are worth investing more time into and which are wasting your money.
  
  Track conversions, track revenue, track customer lifetime value, track revenue per click versus cost per click, etc. Good tools will do this for you. I don't know if Hypertracker is one of those tools. It has a screenshot of Goto.com in the tour, which was a PPC search engine from 1998 to 2001 -- a lot has changed since then, not just in terms of where people advertise but in how to accurately track activity on the modern web with people finding your site through multiple channels on multiple computers, phones and other devices.
  
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rpspartan92

10 years ago

I appreciate my friend!

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stackz9front

10 years ago

No problem!

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AKhann

10 years ago

Use a self hosted click tracker like My Click Boss instead. Its much cheaper. And if you need help, the person who owns MCB is very helpful

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MrPete2000

10 years ago

Originally Posted by AKhann

Use a self hosted click tracker like My Click Boss instead. Its much cheaper. And if you need help, the person who owns MCB is very helpful

I don't really agree with this statement; there are situations where it can be cheaper, but in most cases, it's better to pay a small monthly fee for a proper service.

Self hosted solutions are typically built to be easy to install and configure, so they rely on technologies that are found on most shared hosting platforms, namely PHP and MySQL.

While this is fine, and it works great for small amounts of traffic, there are a lot of potential problems once your traffic starts to grow:

- shared hosting is unreliable, and downtime means lots of lost traffic and money (especially if you pay for traffic)
- the more traffic you get, the slower the script will work, forcing you to get Dedicated Hosting (much more expensive than a typical hosted solution)
- as your database grows (with every click), writing to the database gets slower, and so does the entire script/redirects/etc
- you are responsible for backups

If you have very low traffic, that you don't pay for, you could get away with a self hosted solution... otherwise, you would be wise to consider a hosted solution. Your time is better spent creating and optimizing campaigns than monitoring and managing tracking software.

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Alice12345

10 years ago

Originally Posted by MrPete2000

I don't really agree with this statement; there are situations where it can be cheaper, but in most cases, it's better to pay a small monthly fee for a proper service.

Self hosted solutions are typically built to be easy to install and configure, so they rely on technologies that are found on most shared hosting platforms, namely PHP and MySQL.

While this is fine, and it works great for small amounts of traffic, there are a lot of potential problems once your traffic starts to grow:

- shared hosting is unreliable, and downtime means lots of lost traffic and money (especially if you pay for traffic)
- the more traffic you get, the slower the script will work, forcing you to get Dedicated Hosting (much more expensive than a typical hosted solution)
- as your database grows (with every click), writing to the database gets slower, and so does the entire script/redirects/etc
- you are responsible for backups

If you have very low traffic, that you don't pay for, you could get away with a self hosted solution... otherwise, you would be wise to consider a hosted solution. Your time is better spent creating and optimizing campaigns than monitoring and managing tracking software.

my2c

Thanks for the info. More traffic, the shared hosting will definitely go slow or down. Btw, anyone use clickmagic?