Chasing the dream… and finding out exactly what that means
Archive for May, 2009
ClickBank Referral Tracking limit is 24 characters
May 31st
I just found out from Mike Liebner’s Internet Marketing Blog that ClickBank’s ?tid= referral tracking code is limited to 24 characters, not eight as most people think. I thought it was limited to eight characters myself, and that limitation has been incorporated into the design of my Keyword Transformer Professional Edition product.
Sure enough, ClickBank’s Hoplink FAQ indicates that the limit is 24 characters.
I think that when it was introduced, it must have been a limit of eight, and it presumably has been extended to 24.
David Thomas, http://TheAffiliateMarketer.net/
AdSense and Google Analytics integration
May 24th
If you use AdSense and Google Analytics, it is now possible to combine the two, such that Analytics will show you statistics regarding your AdSense account. If you have one site, it’s simply a matter of signing up in your AdSense account and linking it to your Analytics account. If you have several sites, for all but one of these sites you will need to add a new bit of Analytics code near the start of each webpage.
The statistics in Analytics are impressive. You can graph AdSense revenue; revenue per 1000 visits; ads clicked; ads clicked per visit; CTR; eCPM; page impressions; page impressions per visit; ad units viewed; and unit impressions per visit.
It will also tell you which pages of your site make you the most money, and where the traffic is coming from that is making you all that money.
This is far, far better than what is provided by the AdSense interface. If you make any form of serious money with AdSense or have aspirations to do so, you need to get this tracking going now.
David Thomas, The Affiliate Marketer
Upgrade time
May 10th
I’ve just recently noticed that a lot of spam links had somehow made their way into the footer here.
I got rid of it all, and found that it had come back the next day. So I’ve now upgraded to the latest version of WordPress which is more secure, and hopefully that problem shouldn’t happen anymore.
We’ll see whether it helps!