When selling as an Affiliate marketer it pays to keep a close track on how your product sales and related marketing efforts are paying off.

We recently enabled Affiliate Tracking Ids to be included on sales page BuyNow urls, using a simple parameter string.

This means that by simply adding a short identifying parameter you can track the effectiveness of different marketing treatments. The BuyNow page will be the same but the parameter string can be adapted to refer to the relevant marketing element.
In practice this means adding an identifying parameter for each marketing element you want to track.

To do this you would simply add the following parameter string: &tid= followed by the relevant identifying words or characters after your basic URL.
Here are some examples:

June Newsletter: URL&tid=JuneN
July Newsletter: URL&tid=JulyN
Google AdWords: URL&tid=GreatSoftware21
Website splash page August: URL&tid=WebAugustOffer

Your BuyNow page will appear as normal with the parameter, and the tracking ID will be included in Affiliate Instant Notifications, post-sale email confirmations and Affiliates’ sales reports.

Check out our new Learning Center tutorial on Affiliate Tracking IDs for full details. If you have any additional thoughts on additional features you would like to see in the Plimus Affiliates system please message me.
 

By the way if you are an Affiliate going to this month’s Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas don’t forget to meet with us and join the special Plimus Affiliate CashFlow Club.

Tip: If you are a Vendor and want to track your marketing methods you can do so by adding a relevant Custom Field. Click here to view our Learning Center item on Using Custom Fields.