Monthly Affiliate Newsletters - September 15, 2008

Dear Valued Partners,

Do you want to make September a month to remember by cutting your PPC costs and increasing your returns on free traffic methods by as much as 60%!

Have you had these issues?

• Inability to generate profit from pay per click campaigns.
• Increased effort with unsatisfactory results.
• Inability to analyse or track cost effective data.
• Costly PPC keywords and difficulty realizing return on investments.

For me, those days were really difficult and I had no idea how to overcome those problems. After doing thorough research and analysing each and every aspect of my affiliate promotions, I realized that I still did not have all the data to make an effective decision.

Therefore, the obvious solution was to start collecting data on each and every ad I place, each and every article I write, and each and every keyword I bid on. To track all this I found the simplest method was to use tracking Identification numbers.

Suddenly, I found I have more control over every thing I do and within a few weeks time I had enough data to pin point the methods that were working and I was confident enough to change those things that were a drain on my success!

Soon I was able to boost my returns by about 60%. That was the big plus and since then I never do anything without using this tracking method.

In our affiliate program at UMM I don’t find many affiliates using tracking IDs on their campaigns. At UMM we have this feature already in place just for you! It is very simple to use, just follow the directions below.

Your affiliate link looks like this:

<a href='http://hits.affiliatetraction.com/cgi-bin/redir?pd_link=i1-a1-o1-c1'>

Change it to following: <a href='http://hits.affiliatetraction.com/cgi-bin/redir?pd_link=i1-a1-o1-c1&trackID=<? Place_your_uniqueID_in_place_of_this_text >'>

Add &trackID=<? Place_your_uniqueID_in_place_of_this_text > at the end of your affiliate link and replace “Place_your_uniqueID_in_place_of_this_text” with your tracking id and use this affiliate link in your ads.

Just use a unique ID number for each and every thing you want to track. Later, within your account you will be able to see your sales by the ID information. Here’s how...

When you login your account you will find a “Reporting” tab at the top of the page. Under Reporting you’ll find a drop down menu, in that menu select “Track ID” and you’ll be able to see all the Tracking Ids and sales you have made from each and every source.

Once you evaluate what is working, implement those methods, discontinue ineffective methods, and test new ideas. Soon you’ll be one of the top performing affiliates and this is what Internet marketing is all about!

If you should have any questions regarding this month’s article, please feel free to email me at amit@universalmarketingmedia.com.

Happy selling,

Amit Singh
Universal Marketing Media, Inc.
Affiliate Manager
amit@universalmarketingmedia.com
646-797-3239

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