Affiliate since: 10/04/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Mark's 12 other Ask SC answers

Hi Adebayo, I will surely follow this topic, for I know the importance of a good tracking but missing a good system with it too.

My friend used a cool 4 number system. With the first number, he tracked his ad place, with the second, he tracked his ad topic, with third, the ad body (he advertised mostly by solo ads)and with the last one, he tracked the gateway. He sweared to me that the old white RealBusiness gateway worked better than the new green one, interesting, isn't it...

Our SFI key codes and hit tracking is great, but it has one major and quite common with some other trackers fault, it does not work with majority of the credit links! Is just those links have a special code, and while counting the timer, they wipe out the extra trackers.

There are some businesses out there, that that code is wiping the whole ref part, so we are lucky anyway that it wipes out only our tracker;-)
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Hi Adebayo, I will surely follow this topic, for I know the importance of a good tracking but missing a good system with it too.

My friend used a cool 4 number system. With the first number, he tracked his ad place, with the second, he tracked his ad topic, with third, the ad body (he advertised mostly by solo ads)and with the last one, he tracked the gateway. He sweared to me that the old white RealBusiness gateway worked better than the new green one, interesting, isn't it...

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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

The easiest way to track your ads, at least with respect to SFI referrals, is through the use of "Key Codes" at the end of your referral link.

If you go to

https://www.sfimg.com/Support/Solution?id=19365

you will learn how to use them. Essentially, you're tacking a four-digit code on the end of your affiliate ID, and then when you go to your Genealogy report, you can search on your key codes and discover which ones are getting you active affiliates.

With your TripleClicks ads, that's a little trickier--I don't think they have key codes for those. You could, however rotate your ads for different products, and then base your success rates based on the commission values you're receiving.
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The easiest way to track your ads, at least with respect to SFI referrals, is through the use of "Key Codes" at the end of your referral link.

If you go to

https://www.sfimg.com/Support/Solution?id=19365

you will learn how to use them. Essentially, you're tacking a four-digit code on the end of your affiliate ID, and then when you go to your Genealogy report, you can search on your key codes and discover which ones are getting you active affiliates.

With
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Affiliate since: 11/04/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Celestina 's 3 other Ask SC answers

Hi Adebayo,
The best way to track your ads to which is providing the most result is for you to make sure you check your hit tracking everyday before they are reset on Sundays but the best way to track them is for you to make use of key codes but be sure to avoid using the special codes meant for corporate use.

To make use of these key codes you have to place them after your SFIID For instance, http://www.sfi4.com/xxxxxxxx.4689 With the key codes you decides to use, you will be able to tell where your hits are coming from whether it is from Facebook, twitter, or any other media you chose to make use of.
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Hi Adebayo,
The best way to track your ads to which is providing the most result is for you to make sure you check your hit tracking everyday before they are reset on Sundays but the best way to track them is for you to make use of key codes but be sure to avoid using the special codes meant for corporate use.

To make use of these key codes you have to place them after your SFIID For instance, http://www.sfi4.com/xxxxxxxx.4689 With the key codes you decides to use, you will be able
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Thanks for this question.

The answer lies in: Power Tools (On our Home Page).

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How can I track my advertising? How do I use key codes?
10/25/2014

Tracking where your advertising responses are coming from is VITAL to successful marketing, and key codes play a CRUCIAL role in your efforts.


As an SFI affiliate, you can (and should) use Key Codes in all your advertising. You choose your own Key Codes and append it to the end of your SFI ID number within your Gateway links (for example: http://www.sfi1.biz/SFIID.123 or http://www.sfi4.com/SFIID.123/FREE). Our system will automatically capture your Key Codes when someone joins SFI or becomes a TC Member through one of your Gateway links with a Key Code attached. You'll then see your Key Codes referred to within incoming PSA and PRM Notifications and also in the "KC" column within your Genealogy, providing you immediate feedback on the effectiveness of your ads. In other words, by embedding different Key Codes into your various advertising efforts, you can easily and quickly identify where your results are coming from--which ad sources are pulling, and which ad sources are not.


As an example, let's say that you run a particular SFI ad in a popular blog and on an offline flyer. You refer your prospective affiliates to your FREE Gateway on both ads, but you use different Key Codes for each source, so you'll be able to tell which one is bringing you better results:


Blog: http://www.sfi4.com/SFIID.100/FREE

Flyer: http://www.sfi4.com/SFIID.200/FREE


As your PSAs join SFI through these two ad links, you can quickly determine by the Key Code references in new affiliate notifications and your Genealogy which source is working better.


IMPORTANT! Be sure to keep a good list of each Key Code you create and the ad source you use it in, so you can refer to it as needed. SFI does not keep track of affiliate Key Codes, so if you lose your list, we cannot assist you in retrieving them.


NOTE: You can choose any number for your ad-based Key Codes, EXCEPT the following codes currently reserved for SFI corporate use:


1101 for affiliates from S-Builder.

1104 for PSAs To Go/PSAs won at Auctions

1200 for affiliates who were not referred to SFI by anyone.
1300 for TripleClicks members via the TC Tell-A-Friend feature.

Hit Tracking:

Track the Web hits to your personal SFI Gateway sites.

Creating cost effective, high performance marketing doesn't have to be difficult. In fact, simply following one important rule can help ensure you get the most bang for your marketing buck: TRACK YOUR RESULTS!

Below are the hit tracking results and performance summaries for any keycodes you're using in your advertising. Keep a close eye on these statistics to tweak and perfect the details of your marketing campaigns.

IMPORTANT: Due to system memory constraints, SFI resets Hit Tracking automatically each Sunday. Please note your Hit Tracking numbers before the weekly reset.

The Hit Tracker is automatically reset each Sunday. If you would like to reset your Hit Tracking statistics before that, just click the Reset button below.

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I took these details from Power Tools.

Conclusion:

The reports which I get are quite useful You too can go through these regularly to understand better.


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Thanks for this question.

The answer lies in: Power Tools (On our Home Page).

Quote:
How can I track my advertising? How do I use key codes?
10/25/2014

Tracking where your advertising responses are coming from is VITAL to successful marketing, and key codes play a CRUCIAL role in your efforts.


As an SFI affiliate, you can (and should) use Key Codes in all your advertising. You choose your own Key Codes and append it to the end of your SFI
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Affiliate since: 11/10/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Aleksandra's 27 other Ask SC answers

Interesting question, and a very useful one if you know the right answer. Now, among other things, SFI provides clear instructions on how to set the key code when you are making your own advertisements. They appear while you are using the prepared ads and I do not need to explain this part. I have been using them for months, and then I came across another interesting thing.

There is a very good site which is free to use and which can help you post your ads wherever you want. It is call bitly.com and it shortens your personal link in order not to be blocked or "stolen". At the same time, it is making its own statistics which can give you precise data about how many times one particular link was clicked during a certain period of time. It can even provide information about the physical area.

Another useful gadget is world tracker which you can install for free on your blog. It will show you the location of people who visited your blog so that you can adjust the contents and make it more appealing to your visitors.

Tracking your ads will help you decide what kind of contents/text should be used to get the best results in attracting new PSAs.

I wish you success in building your team!
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Interesting question, and a very useful one if you know the right answer. Now, among other things, SFI provides clear instructions on how to set the key code when you are making your own advertisements. They appear while you are using the prepared ads and I do not need to explain this part. I have been using them for months, and then I came across another interesting thing.

There is a very good site which is free to use and which can help you post your ads wherever you want. It is call
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 19 | Read Aina's 157 other Ask SC answers

1) Free: By SFI
You can find this under Power Tool ? Hit Tracking for all your adds. Keep in mind that it
is advisable that you assign different key code for different link. Take note of the 4
codes currently being used by SFI and affiliates are not to use these codes.

a) Affliliate from S-Buildier-1101.
b) PSAs To Go/PSAs won at Auctions-1104
c) Affiliates who were not referred to SFI by anyone-1200.
d) 0TripleClicks members via tc the TC Tell-A-Friend feature-1300

2) Other free sites (will not mentioned names here, just in case violate the rules)
Some will not allow you to check your stats, some do allow with very basic features.
Still, use them to advertise and link all your promo to your gateway provided by SFI.
If you purchase or won Lifetime Custom Prestige Domain at PriceBenders, links all your ads
to this personalized links@your gateway. Assign a code except those mentioned above,
and keep tracking using Hit Tracking.
You should be able to see all your codes should someone sign-up from this gateway/link.

Others using paid website will have all the option to check visitors to their website (statistics), at the same time through Hit Tracking. If you are able to see statistics, then you are able to see info like peak hours, peak days and region or countries and referring sites. Do keep your own record as SFI resets Hit Tracking automatically every Sunday.

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1) Free: By SFI
You can find this under Power Tool ? Hit Tracking for all your adds. Keep in mind that it
is advisable that you assign different key code for different link. Take note of the 4
codes currently being used by SFI and affiliates are not to use these codes.

a) Affliliate from S-Buildier-1101.
b) PSAs To Go/PSAs won at Auctions-1104
c) Affiliates who were not referred to SFI by anyone-1200.
d) 0TripleClicks members
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Affiliate since: 09/16/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Kazhiyur's 49 other Ask SC answers

The marketer or advertiser who takes the initiative to market or advertise or sell his products or services can track his advertisements or the rate of success by verifying the advertising tracker which is made available at the bottom of the web-page at regular intervals of time, for a certain number of days to get the latest information or knowledge about the end result of his advertising, marketing and selling results.

In case, if the advertiser utilizes two or more than two channels or websites for his marketing, advertising or selling of his products and services effort, then he can always compare the net and gross results by verifying each and every website he has ventured into. At the end of his advertising, marketing or selling campaign, he can always construct a table the fill the blanks with the net and gross results or values at various times of advertising and finally come to a conclusion about which channel or website has been the most effective or efficacious in his advertising, marketing and selling effort.

Apart from the effectiveness of the advertising campaign, one has to always take a look at the expenditure or cost of the advertising effort. If the cost of a particular advertising is more and the comparative result is also more than the others, that does not mean it is effective or efficacious. Hence, the cost and time or duration of the campaign has to be taken at a constant level and then only one must make an attempt to calculate the effectiveness or efficacy of the advertising campaign.

The above-mentioned steps would prove to be very effective if one intends to track the advertisement effort for best results or output.
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The marketer or advertiser who takes the initiative to market or advertise or sell his products or services can track his advertisements or the rate of success by verifying the advertising tracker which is made available at the bottom of the web-page at regular intervals of time, for a certain number of days to get the latest information or knowledge about the end result of his advertising, marketing and selling results.

In case, if the advertiser utilizes two or more than two channels
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Affiliate since: 08/16/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Vijayan's 63 other Ask SC answers

Dear Friend,

The best way is to make use of key codes that will determine the ad gateway.

Keep different digit codes for all your gateways and keep a track of the same. Now, you will easily know which gateway generated more/good results and you can now easily find out answer for your question.

Once this setup is done, you can start advertising and keep monitoring your HITs in the PowerTools option.

Hope it helps!!

Affiliate since: 09/23/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Lee's 20 other Ask SC answers

What are the best ways to track my ads to know which are providing the best results?"

The best way to track your ads to know which are providing the best results is to use the co-op manager to set up individual trackers for each line of ad/ marketing which will give you a detailed summary of how many people of visited or signed up with each ad/ marketing tool you have active.

If you want to boost the number of traffic of prospects I recommend using the Affiliate Marketing Share from Tripleclicks and using a Personalized website which has your links to SFI and Tripleclicks which is linked to several search engines
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What are the best ways to track my ads to know which are providing the best results?"

The best way to track your ads to know which are providing the best results is to use the co-op manager to set up individual trackers for each line of ad/ marketing which will give you a detailed summary of how many people of visited or signed up with each ad/ marketing tool you have active.

If you want to boost the number of traffic of prospects I recommend using the Affiliate Marketing
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Affiliate since: 11/29/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Anton's 25 other Ask SC answers

Great question.

I find Bitly to be the best way to track my ads especially at first. you can actually use a combination of the SFI tracking system and Bitly.com. It's free. It breaks down your hits to country, ad exchanges, and time. It shows an actually graph 24 hours, days or even up to months. This way you know who the active countries are and when for which ad and you can target them on the better ad exchanges.
There is one downfall. Facebook does not let you use bit.ly and there are some other sits that won't let you use a double link. Keep this in mind if the site will not post your link and use just the SFI tracking.
There is also TinyUrl which I have seen used a lot but I am not familiar with it. After a while you will just know when the best times to run your ads are and where.

Best of success!
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Great question.

I find Bitly to be the best way to track my ads especially at first. you can actually use a combination of the SFI tracking system and Bitly.com. It's free. It breaks down your hits to country, ad exchanges, and time. It shows an actually graph 24 hours, days or even up to months. This way you know who the active countries are and when for which ad and you can target them on the better ad exchanges.
There is one downfall. Facebook does not let you use bit.ly and there
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