Affiliate marketing is one of best if not the best ways to generate a strong revenue stream. There are people making thousand of dollars(and even millions) from their affiliate marketing efforts.
If you’ve done a good article and positioned it on the first search result for a particular key term, then you’ve only did half the job. Once the article is online, then you have to continue to track it again again in order to mantain that position.
Would your get excited if I tell you how to track your affiliate page which help your product sales grow. Today I decided to tell you how I do this by using a cool free tracking tool Google Analytics.
Let me start with a simple example. One of affiliate products I sold more copies was a cloack plugin called “WordPress link cloak“. Just type the key term “cloack link” on Google search engines, and it show my article first on the search results. It is a cool plug-in that convert well because it useful for any affiliate marketer and anyone who want make money online has really need of it. Also, it has a nice commission for any sales done.
How Exactly Do You Make This Work?
Ok, now is time to start becoming more visible. By using Google Analytics is the best way to help grow your visibility. Today, what we are going to do in particular is simply find what are the key terms visitors type on Google search engine in order to reach your webpages and how use that key terms to improve this webpages position on search results.
First and foremost, log into Google Analytics, in the left of the page is a section titled “Dashboard”, then click on “Content” as showed in the image below. On the next page, by default, you should see the results from the last 30 days.
Now, you have to look the section called “Top Content” which is the area to individual pages that have received the most traffic within the last 30 days. The next step I do is click on “View Full Report.”
If you are following along with me, please do this now. After you click on view full report, you should see a screen that looks like this:
Look the screen shot above to view in full size. Now this screen shot is called the Google Analytics Top Content Performance Report. It will show you exactly which individual page(s) are receiving the most traffic and why.
If you click on every link, you open a page that will give you a bit of information about one particular webpage. For instance, if you click on Entrance Sources this page will tell you where majority of the traffic is coming come(i.e. social network, search engine, direct referral, and so on).
The next step is to click on “Entrance Keywords”, so you can check where the majority of traffic is coming for certain keywords. Click on “Entrance Keywords” and you will see a page that looks like this:
Now, at this time, we go about using a simple methods to edit ours page and allow us receive more traffic in the future. Just because the traffic coming for the key term “link cloak”, it would be better for me to edit this page.
What Can We Do With This Data?
This data is worth like gold! You could add these keyword phrases into your web content and rebuild the content on this page for getting a better optimize.
Also, with this list of keywords you can create additional pages by using these keyword like tag. Tags allows you to create new page with the snap of your fingers and instantly you have additional pages that get indexed in the search engines.
Conclusion
Remember, if you don’t take action it will only slow down your chances of becoming a top affiliate marketer. If you no knows about how your product will perform, it doesn’t matter how good it is. Increasing conversion to your business is the best way to increase walk-in sales to your establishment. I hope that you enjoyed this tip today.
To Our Success,
Nicola Deiana
Affiliate Marketer
