Ad Tracking

In this article we are going to cover Ad Tracking, one of the most important things often overlooked in network marketing or Internet marketing as a whole. But before we do, we need to set up one very important thing when it comes to any Internet marketing and that is the use of a domain name.

To set up a domain name simply go to NetworkSolutions, GoDaddy, or Register.

All three of these sites have good prices for domain names usually ranging from $8 to $15 a year. I personally use GoDaddy but they are all good companies to work with.

Try to think of something unique that has to do with your industry. This will be hard as there are many people out there with their own registered domain names. I would also try to keep it short and avoid the use of things like
work4you.cominstead of workforyou.com. The shorter and simpler they are, the better.

Now that you have your domain name you are going to need to forward it on to your network marketing website. There should be a place in the preferences of your site where you can set a forwarding link.

Once you find the preference area needed to forward your domain, simply type in the url where you want the domain to be forwarded to. It\'d5s that easy. My sure that you check to see if your domain forwarding is working, sometimes it may take up to a day for the changes to come into affect. Please note that this site changes its setup often so the domain forwarding directions illustrated above may change.

Onward to Ad tracking!

Ad tracking is one of the biggest keys to success in network marketing because it is crucial to see what ads are working and what ads aren't. This will greatly help your return on investment and help you to optimize your traffic. There are many different ad-tracking programs out there on the net but I have found from my own experiences that AdMinder is the best.

Step 1

Go to AdMinder and set up an account. This is one to the most important things you can do to help grow your business. Bookmark your login page because you will be going back to this site quite often.

Step 2

Now that you have your account set up let us look at how to use this program to track your advertisements.

When you login to your account you will arrive at the sites homepage, from here click on the button on the top right corner of the page. This will bring you to a page that lets you set up a new ad tracking code, which can be used to track any specific advertisement.

Lets say that we want to see how many people come to our site as a whole. The first thing that we need to do is create and ad tracking code that we can use to reference our total site visits. After you have hit the "New" button another page will come up where we can insert the information required to track our total site visits.

Where it says "Ad Code" enter "SiteVisits" as our tracking code. Then change the "Purpose" to "Neither" Traffic only. Next, where is says "Redirect To" put your network marketing website. In the "Description" explain why you are tracking this link, such as to track total site visits. The last thing that you need to change is the "Ad Cost" area to "20.00" because what we are tracking, total site traffic, doesn't cost us any money. Later on, when we use this program to track other specific ads such as ezines, we are going to want to put the cost of the advertisement in this section, but for now, we are done entering in our information. Finally, click on the "Create New Ad Code" button and we are almost done.