The Number One Tracking Software

[Ben Hartsuff]

What is the number one tracking software that you guys use?

 

[Alex_smith]

What is the number one tracking software that you guys use?

Tracking for what? for a link? sales or for whole affiliates website?

 

[Ben Hartsuff]

Any tracking software that you have used and liked? I use tracking202 for my traffic and conversions. I find that it gets the job done but I am always looking for anything that might work better as I find that tracking is the most important aspect of online marketing. I also us WP Stats on all my wordpress sites.

 

[elcidofaguy]

elcidofaguy

Wow it looks to me you're investing a lot of money with use of the above mentioned commercial platform.... The way I do it does not cost anything except for web hosting... I use [URLnf="http://yourls.org/"]YOURLS [/URLnf]for tracking links - which is free open source tool similar to bitly, tinyurl etc... With regards to tracking user behaviour on my website its a combination of G's analytics and some self coded PHP... With self coded solution you can do things like:

1) Set session variables
2) Read in get URL variables
3) Apply variables to user action e.g. hidden field on optin form or buy now button...

That way I can accurately track what outside resources is bringing in traffic which converts.... e.g. person clicks on an ad then buys the product and from that you can ascertain which ad is the best...

I hope that helps!

 

[Ben Hartsuff]

Hi elcidofaguy, Thank you for your insight. I should have been more specific, I am using tracking202's self hosted version prosper202 it is a free tool.

 

[jimi1980]

Well if I m not wrong you are talking about tracking the whole management system for this you need to have the kind of pro support for that you can go for google and search for the term "Affiliate Tracking software"

 

[SIG]

You surely cannot go wrong use [URLnf="http://prosper.tracking202.com/apps/"]this[/URLnf]

 

[popwin1]

How does tracking202 is free ? Is there anywhere from they would earn money with that ? Is it effective ?

Thanks for info

 

[mindwave1]

You can give ClickMeter a try: it allows link cloaking. ClickMeter also provide a referral wiping option as well as, of course, a detailed counter for the clicks. You can use it for free or upgrade to the premium versions. That is what have been using for a while now and is very accurate compared to tracking202.

 

[elcidofaguy]

As an update I've setup a step by step guide for tracking links within the forum blog entry here. It covers how to install and setup YOURLS. Let me know if you have any questions....

 

[Vendzilla]

Post Affiliate Pro is pretty good

 

[ioZoom]

Have been using linktrackr.com and it works good. Recently came across clickmagick and thinking about trying that out.