One of the coolest features of LinkTrackr is its ability to split test affiliate offers. This is one of the keys to finding successful campaigns. Most new affiliate marketers will just take an offer, spend money promoting it and hope it makes a profit. This is a pretty sure fire way to lose money with affiliate marketing.
All affiliate networks offer multiple offers in the same niche. How do you choose the best one? With LinkTrackr, You don’t have to. You can run them all to find the ones that are profitable.
Throw Everything On The Ceiling and See What Sticks
Basically, what we’re doing is split testing a bunch of offers to find the ones that are profitable. This takes the guess work out of the equation. Here’s how to do it.
Log into your affiliate network and choose a bunch of offers from a niche you’re interested in promoting. For this example, we’re looking at some dating offers from Neverblue Ads.
Neverblue has over 100 dating offers to choose from. The odds of you picking a winner without split testing is close to zero. What you do is find some offers that catch your fancy and add them to LinkTrackr Split Tester.
You can add as many offers as you want and divide the traffic anyway you want. I start off by giving every offer equal weight. Then as the results come in, I will shift the traffic to the offers that are profitable and remove the unprofitable ones.
You can make tracking easier by using the LinkTrackr conversion tracking. You’ll have to talk to your affiliate manager to see if she can add the conversion tracking codes to the final landing page. This will allow you to see your ROI right from the LinkTrackr control panel. You’ll be able to see instantly which offers are making money and which offers to kill.
What you end up with is one LinkTrackr URL that divides the traffic into multiple affiliate offers that you can track in real time. Using this method, it shouldn’t take more than a day or two to find the winning offers in whatever niche you’re operating in.
Test Out LinkTrackr for Free
LinkTrackr offers multiple plans. They range from free to the $27 per month Xtreme plan. The free plan allows you to create ten tracking links using the default LinkTrackr URL. If you want your own custom URL, you’ll have to upgrade to one of the paid plans. However, the free plan is a good way to test out the service. You can use the free plan for one full year.
The basic paid LinkTrackr plan costs $9 per month and allows 100 tracking links and up to 10,000 clicks per month. That should be good enough to get started with, but you can also try the Pro or Xtreme plans if you already have many affiliate links to cloak and track. You can upgrade or downgrade your account at any time, so you can always start small and upgrade as needed.
To try LinkTrackr, simply go and create your free account. If you’re signing up for any of the paid plans, then be sure to use the coupon code JOHNCHOW to get 20% off.
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Hey John,
I remember you mentioning Link Trackr before but this post gives more information.
Link Trackr is definitely very useful. It’s for more advanced marketers I think. How long have you used it? I’ll consider using it very strongly when the time comes for me.
Are they really spelling it without the e? Why not leave out all the vowels, I wonder. LnkTrckr wouldn’t look that bad.
I’ve been using it since it came out.
Thanks for the reply John.
It must really be good then.
Now I have to find out when it came out to really know how long you’ve been using it.
The date of when Link Trackr came out doesn’t seem to show in search engines.
Do you mind telling me when that was John ?
LinkTrack came out around October of 2010. I was a beta tester for it.
It might be worth having just to split test offers. Cool!
That’s for sure. Having a tool like this is much easier than running multiple ads and splitting traffic within your search engine account.
thanks for this. Ive to try linktrack for sure.
Thank you John,
That’s fairly recently. So the first time I heard you mention them could have easily been at that time.
I looked at their prices and they are very reasonable. With your beautiful discount it will be even better. Is the discount going to be a fixed recurring one or is it just for the first month or is it limited to a specific time length after which they will not give it on an ongoing basis?
This is quite important for me to know and I think all the other readers would appreciate knowing that as well.
The discount is recurring. You get it for the life of your account.
Extremely helpful, thanks Email List Building and John. The fact that the discount is recurring makes this an amazing deal!
This was the exact answer I was looking for, thanks!
I haven’t had much success with affiliate marketing so far. Link Trackr looks like a good place to help with this.
Keep trying Justin,i am sure you will be much successful.
It is actually a tool for online marketers.
I am not sure if it’ll be much help is used alone.
Affiliate marketing takes a bit of time and patience… and a lot of dumb luck!
Thanks John, the coupon works!
Elva
$27 a month for link tracking. That seems a little steep.
Is that 20% off every month?
Yes, it is. And $27 a month isn’t much when you compare it to what other split testing solution cost.
That’s awesome!!
But, I just paid for the whole year for the basic plan.
It’s actually lot more than link tracking..
What else does it do that has helped you?
Hi John thank you very much for your review. I’ll try this one for my niche site. thanks for your coupon
Hey john,
I’ll try this one for my niche site. thanks for your coupon
I wonder. LnkTrckr wouldn’t look that bad.
I have learned One of the coolest features of LinkTrackr is its ability to split test affiliate offers. This is one of the keys to finding successful campaigns.I am completely agree with this.
LinkTrackr is indeed a great tool for marketers.
I am using a basic plan (one step upgrade from free) and just loving it.
Combine this with split testing landing pages, etc and you can gain some serious insight into what really converts! Thanks John!
I did not know its so easy.
Hey fas,
I am telling you it is easy,You can make tracking easier by using the LinkTrackr conversion tracking. You’ll have to talk to your affiliate manager to see if she can add the conversion tracking codes to the final landing page. This will allow you to see your ROI right from the LinkTrackr control panel.You should try.
I have used many services like this, love reading the comments. What additional things does it offer?
Whether it’s ad copy, landing pages, or offers, split testing is core to my online marketing strategy. John, thanks for sharing, LinkTrackr seems like a truly great tool.
thanks for the article .its really helpfur for new affiliate marketers
great info about Link Trackr and great help for affiliate marketing to optimize their online earning. Its good strategy to offer multiple product in the same niche. Surely these kind of tool will make life easy for affiliates and so the money in pockets.
Yes i can make tracking easier by using the LinkTrackr conversion tracking.Thanks.
Thanks for this sharing john I also appreciated to LinkTrackr seems like a truly great tool.
Hey Abhik,
You are absolutely right,It is actually a tool for online marketers.
Wow, that’s great! I’m definitely going to have to take a closer look at LinkTrackr.
if we use the affiliate networks right it will earn u a lot
can you suggest any affiliate net works, .
The Best i can suggest is clickbank affiliate network. It is best and safe.
i have worked with shareasale but dn’t know about the other networks