New Geo Reporting Feature for LinkTrackr

by Gobala Krishnan

I think the video above explains everything about the new geo-reporting for LinkTrackr. This has been a much anticipated feature for quite some time now, but we’ve been bust testing a few methods to determine the best way to do it.

Well it’s finally here (or soon if you don’t see it yet) – and this new feature will allow you to see clicks and conversions by country, for all links or individual links.

Let me know what you think.

NOTE: Only clicks after the update will be tagged to a certain country, all previous clicks will show up as “Unknown”.

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FaceBook Conversion Tracking with LinkTrackr

by Gobala Krishnan

FaceBook conversion tracking is a tricky issue, but if you’re planning to buy FaceBook ads then you’ll just burn a hole through your pockets without the correct tracking system setup.

FaceBook used to have it’s own conversion tracking system, but due to unknown reasons they had it shut down. Perhaps  they were worried that advertisers would start to realize just how bad their conversion rates are, and doubt the quality of their advertising platform. No real official reason was given though.

Till today FaceBook has not introduced a replacement to their native conversion tracking, so most marketers are spending blindly on FaceBok ads. This is surprising when you consider the fact that FaceBook Ads are often hyped up to be “the Google Adwords replacement”.

The good news is that you can easily track your FaceBook conversions with LinkTrackr. Unlike the defunct native FaceBook conversion tracking system however, LinkTrackr can also be used to track affiliate products you may be promoting. As long as your affiliate program supports pixel tracking or TID tracking, results should be accurate. You can read more about affiliate conversion tracking if you’ve never attempted to track affiliate sales before.

Here I’ll give you a step-by-step walkthrough on how to create your own FaceBook conversion tracking campaign.

FaceBook Conversion Tracking Step 1 – Naming System

FaceBook’s ad platform is different from Google Adwords. FB only tracks by campaigns and ads. They do not have “Ad Groups” to help you group together different ad targetting options.  Therefore you will need to create your own naming system if you want to implement your own FaceBook sales tracking.

To make things simple, whenever I start a new campaign, I name my first ad “FB001″ and continue this incremental numbering system for all ads, like below:

To keep the data accurate, I just keep giving the ads a new number regardless of whether they were approved, or whether I paused / deleted them. Never use the same number twice.

FaceBook Conversion Tracking Step 2 – Tracking Links

Now that we have numbered each ad, create a new tracking link in LinkTrackr for the product or affiliate offer you want to promote, and enter that tracking link with the ad number as the campaign name. Example:

With this simple method, you will be able to see right away in your LinkTrackr dashboard the amount of clicks you get from each numbered ad. If you have an account that supports conversion tracking, you should also be able to see the sales and optins from the numbered ads.

Multiple Campaign FaceBook Conversion Tracking

The example above is when you’re running a single campaigns for a single product. If you’re running multiple campaigns, you need to append a campaign ID to your campaigns and in your tracking as well, for example:

http://gobala.linktrackr.com/trackingname-FB01AD01

This is my reference for campaign 01, ad 01. If you want to test more complex campaigns however you’ll need a spreadsheet to keep track of your numbering system.

FaceBook Conversion Tracking Limitations

The limitation with this method is that you cannot track how many “Likes” you got from the campaign. If your objective is to get more likes then advertise your FaceBook page instead. FaceBook will be able to tell you exactly how many Likes you got when you advertise a page or “sponsored story” with the default stats.

Like I said before, FaceBook conversion tracking is not easy and never will be until FaceBook intriduces a new conversion tracking for advertisers, but this method will work pretty well.

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YouTube Conversion Tracking with LinkTrackr

by Gobala Krishnan

Do you have a YouTube conversion tracking strategy?

If you’re like me, then you’re probably uploading product reviews, screen capture tutorials and other short videos on YouTube to promote your affiliate website or affiliate links. But how are your YouTube promotions really impacting your profits? Is YouTube really worth your time?

There’s no real way to know unless you implement a systematic way of tracking your YouTube clicks and conversions. And of course, you can do this easily with LinkTrackr.

The easiest way to do it is to embed your LinkTrackr tracking link right on the video page. On your video editing page, you can actually insert a short description of your video. Put your tracking link right up front followed by a short description as you can see below.

YouTube only makes a portion of your description visible, so make sure you enter the most important text right after the tracking link. Now your video display page will look like this:

When anyone shares your video URL on FaceBook, your YouTube tracking link will also be share and will be clickable (unless they just clicked on “Like”), as you can see below:

This will go a long way in helping you track clicks from your YouTube videos and shares, and also with your YouTube conversion tracking efforts.

However, this is only useful when someone views your videos on YouTube itself. It doesn’t appear when someone embeds your videos on their website. For that you need to work with “annotations”.

YouTube Conversion Tracking With Annotations

Annotations are another great way to implement YouTube conversion tracking, especially due to the fact that annotations appear on all embedded videos on any website or blog.

Since YouTube only allows you to link to other YouTube videos or pages, enter the full tracking URL as per the example below. It will not be click-able but at least you get to display the entire link. To make it even more effective you may also want to use domain name cloaking or cPanel link cloaking for shorter, easier to remember links.

Other YouTube Conversion Tracking Ideas

Here are some other ideas to make your YouTube conversion tracking more effective:

  • Video Splash Screen – Create a 5-10 second introduction “splash screen” with your tracking link displayed on a plain background with some text, so viewers know where to go to get more information.
  • Video Credits – Just like the splash screen, but at the end of your video. Make it play for 5-30 seconds so your viewers can actually remember or write down the URL.

YouTube Conversion Tracking with LinkTrackr

With LinkTrackr’s dynamic campaign feature and TID conversion tracking feature (which is available in all accounts), I can clearly see how may people registered / opted in to my free webinar:

I can also see the conversion rate so I know exactly how effective YouTube is as a traffic source for my webinar. If I find that the traffic is too low quality, I may just decide to stop marketing this product on YouTube and turn my attention to more qualified and responsive traffic sources.

With the correct strategy, you will know for sure if your YouTube efforts are paying off or if your time is better spent elsewhere. So start tracking your YouTube conversion tracking campaign now!

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Shocking Facts You Never Knew About ClickBank

by Gobala Krishnan

We written a lot about ClickBank on this blog, including our Clickbank review, introduction to ClickBank hoplinks and conversion tracking for ClickBank affiliates. Now we should probably tell about the scary stuff no one told you about ClickBank.

Unlike most affiliate networks, there’s a real good chance that you will never get paid from ClickBank unless you’re making regular commissions via their network. Here are three reasons why.

1. You Need To Make At Least 5 Sales

You will never get paid if you make one or two sales. In fact, you need to make at least 5 sales (best case scenario) to actually get paid the first time.

According to ClickBank:

ClickBank will withhold payment of any account balance until the following criteria is met:

  • Sales made with 5 or more different credit card numbers; and,
  • Sales made with two different payment methods (either Visa, MasterCard, PayPal or European Direct Debit(ELV)). Note: PayPal purchases do not count toward the minimum 5 different credit card numbers.

This requirement is in place to help prevent Affiliates from abusing the ClickBank Affiliate program by using their accounts for the sole purpose of fraudulently collecting rebates and/or discounts on their own purchases.

Once you have met the Customer Distribution Requirement, your account will begin issuing payments normally, in accordance with our Accounting Policy, beginning on the next payment issuing date.

What this means is that a single sales doesn’t matter. 100 affiliate sales don’t matter either if everyone paid via their VISA credit cards or PayPal. Make sure you understand this requirement, as it closely relates to the next shocking fact you never knew about ClickBank.

2. There’s a “Dormant” Fee Up to $100 a Month

Yes, if you do not make any new commissions, ClickBank will penalize you for it. Deductions start at $1 per “Pay Period” which is every two weeks in ClickBank.

According to ClickBank:

Accounts with a positive balance but no earnings for an extended period of time are considered dormant. Dormant accounts are subject to a charge of $1 per pay period after 90 days of no earnings, $5 per pay period after 180 days of no earnings, and $50 per pay period after 365 days of no earnings.

ClickBank income

The above example is from one of my joint venture ClickBank accounts. Unfortunately, after the initial sales for this product none of the partners (including me) bothered to do anything about the income. We thought we’ll just leave it there till be can get more JV partners to promote the product. That never happened however.

From several thousand dollars in the year 2007/08 you can see how this had depleted to $0 simply because this account was dormant and we had set the minimum payout to $5,000. Last year we had $50 deducted from our account every pay period, which is biweekly, resulting in a $100 deduction per month. Needless to say in a couple of months our earnings were completely wiped out.

I only realized this after checking that dormant account. We should have taken the money out sooner while there was still something to be paid out.

3. You May Never Get Paid

If you decide to promote Clickbank products, you need to keep it going till you get past the minimum 5 sales requirement, and set your minimum payout as low as possible, to actually start getting paid. If you decide to “take a break” from ClickBank you may return a year later to find that your earnings have disappeared.

There’s a real chance that you may never get paid from ClickBank despite all your hard work promoting their products as an affiliate. Be glad you read this!

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PayDotCom Review – The ClickBank Killer?

by Gobala Krishnan

paydotcom review

Like our ClickBank review and Commission Junction review, I hope this PayDotCom review will help you understand and explore PayDotCom better as an affiliate marketer.

PayDotCom is owned by Mike Filsaime, one of the most popular Internet marketing experts in the world. Billed by some as the “ClickBank killer”, PayDotCom also specializes in digital products, Like ClickBank, it is also commonly used by marketers selling how-to ebooks, software and web templates.

Our PayDotCom review is for affiliates, not merchants planning to sell their products on PayDotCom.

PayDotCom Review – Advantages

There are several advantages to promoting PayDotCom products as an affiliate:

  • paydotcom widgetTons of products. If you’re into promoting web software, Internet marketing guides and even niche products, PayDotCom doesn’t disappoint with the amount of products them have to offer
  • Get paid by PayPal. Getting paid as an affiliate in PayDotCom is easy, all you need is a PayPal account.
  • Better affiliate tools. PayDotCom help you make more commissions by giving you more robust affiliate tools like banners, the PayDotCom widget, and also campaign tracking.

PayDotCom Review – Disadvantages

Like any of the other affiliate networks we’ve covered, PayDotCom also has it’s share of disadvantages:

  • Affiliates are charged fees. Similar to ClickBank, affiliates are charged a fee on the commissions they make. For each sale, PayDotCom splits the fees between merchants and affiliates 50-50. Most affiliate disagree with this since unlike ClickBank, the affiliate receives no direct benefit from using PayDotCom.
  • Payout done by merchants. Unlike ClickBank however, each merchant is responsible for paying their affiliates. Therefore you may receive many individual payment (instead of one lump sum) for the products you promote on PayDotCom.
  • Commission delays. Since the payout is done by individual merchants, there will always be commission delays.
  • Poor user interface. PayDotCom’s layout and interface hasn’t changed much since it was first launched. Overall, the interface can be quite tricky and confusing for affiliates. At least with ClickBank you can instantly see your total commissions when you login.
  • Lack of documentation. New affiliates may find it hard to use PayDotCom due to the lack of online documentation. However, when compared to other affiliate networks, the documentation and help process is still within an acceptable range.

PayDotCom Review – Related Opinions

As a conclusion to my PayDotCom review, I think PDC is a great affiliate network but it could surely be improved a whole lot if the owners paid serious attention to it.

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Commission Junction Review – Affiliate Marketing Network

by Gobala Krishnan

Commission Junction Review

Not having a Commission Junction review on this blog is unacceptable, considering that Commission Junction (or just CJ) is one of the oldest, largest affiliate networks out there today. According to Wikipedia:

Commission Junction is an online advertising company owned by ValueClick and operating in the affiliate marketing industry. The company is the largest affiliate network in North America and operates worldwide. Among the top 500 retailers using 3rd party affiliate marketing software, 62% are powered by Commission Junction.

I’ve been an affiliate with CJ since 2001, and have been witness to their tremendous growth in the affiliate marketing industry. Since then I’ve had my fair share of ups and downs with them, the lowest point was when my account was suddenly terminated in 2001/02 and my affiliate commissions disappeared.

I hope this Commission Junction review will shed some light on how CJ works, and what to expect as a CJ affiliate.

Commission Junction Review – Advantages

Commission Junction Review

If you’re just getting started out with affiliate marketing, then Commission Junction would be a logical place to go to. Signing up as a publisher is free and instant, without any manual approvals. Here are some reasons why you may want to try CJ:

  1. Wide Selection of Offers – Besides having tons of merchants, CJ also offers different type of offers. Besides the typical Pay-Per-Sale deal, you can also find Pay-Per-Lead or Pay-Per-Call offers.
  2. Established Merchants – Most of the merchants in CJ tend to be of the more established, Fortune-500 type of companies. For affiliates, this means that.
  3. Commission Junction Stats Transparent Performance Stats – CJ’s little green bar and 3 Month / 7 Day EPC (Earnings Per 1,000 Clicks) tells you exactly how individual merchants are doing within the CJ network. This is really useful as we only want to promote merchants who are doing justice to their affiliates.
  4. Tons of Affiliate Banners – Every merchant has tons of banners and marketing material, hosted by CJ. Each banner also displays the same.
  5. Individual Product Links – You can also link directly to individual products, although this is not true for all merchants. Linking directly to a product, as you may know, is the most effective way to make affiliate sales.  performance stats so you can choose to use only the banners that are doing well.
  6. Centralized Affiliate Payments – All commissions are paid by CJ themselves, not the individual merchants. This means that your paychecks are predictable and secured.

Commission Junction Review – Disadvantages

Although CJ is a great affiliate network, it certainly has its share of disadvantages. Here are some of the most obvious ones:

  1. Advertiser Application Process – Unlike ClickBank where you’re free to promote any affiliate program you want, in CJ you have to manually apply to individual merchants and agree to individual terms of service.
  2. Temporary Advertiser Deactivation – Because of the billing process between CJ and its merchants, you constantly get “Advertiser Deactivated” notifications. It’s pretty annoying to know that once the advertiser has been temporarily deactivated, you no longer receive commissions for that merchant.
  3. Lack of Standardization – Each merchant has their own terms of service (TOS) and refund terms, which means that all your commissions are handled differently. What is ok with one merchant may not sit well with another, for example buying a product with your own affiliate link and using trademarks in your marketing. Keeping track of all these changing terms is a real headache.
  4. Old-School Conversion Tracking – CJ’s stats and reporting features are outdated to say the least. Their affiliate really deserve more conversion data than just commission date and TID tracking. Although they do provide an API for third-party reporting integration, it would be great if they can provide more details to the affiliates directly.
  5. Link Encryption and Protection – CJ offers the option to complete encrypt your link so that your affiliate ID is hidden and hijacking is impossible.
  6. No PayPal Payment Option – I don’t know about you, but I prefer to get my affiliate commissions directly in my PayPal account. Checks are so tedious to deal with and mess up your cash flow. Although CJ does offer an ACH (bank transfer) option, this is only for affiliates from a few countries.
  7. Reputation for Closing Accounts – CJ has a reputation for closing “inactive” affiliate accounts. In fact my account was closed a few years back even though I was making regular commissions from CJ, and they never responded to my emails as to why my account was closed.

Commission Junction Review – Negative Press

Here’s some not-so-flattering (sometimes downright scathing) reviews of Commission Junction. I believe most are exaggerated, though there may be some underlying truth. Also, some review are much older and may no longer be applicable.

  1. Commission Junction is a Joke and a Scam – A pissed off forum user complaining that he “only accumulated $38.70 from 8,000,000 page impressions and 8000+ clicks”. Several other forum member relate similar experiences.
  2. Commission Junction Deletes Accounts And Steals Commissions – An unofficial report about CJ closing accounts and vaporizing affiliate commissions. No official rebuttals to this report.

Although I personally don’t believe that CJ has any malicious intent towards affiliates, it does seem that their arbitrary actions and lack of communication has pissed off a lot of affiliates in the past. A pissed off affiliate tends to tell whoever will listen about CJ’s faults.

I think they need to either rebrand themselves with another name, or hire a really good PR firm to clear up their increasingly bad reputation.

I hope you enjoyed this Commission Junction review, feel free share it using the links below.

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ClickBank Conversion Tracking for Affiliates

by Gobala Krishnan

ClickBank conversion tracking is one of the most important tricks you need to master as a ClickBank affiliate. However, most affiliates pay little or no attention to it. If you’re new to ClickBank, make sure you read our ClickBank review first so you can follow the rest of this post.

There are two different types of ClickBank conversion tracking:

  1. PPC tracking with Google Adwords, MSN etc
  2. Their built-in TID tracking for all other ad sources

ClickBank Conversion Tracking – PPC Advertising

If you’re using PPC advertising to promote ClickBank products, you can use their built-in PPC conversion reporting feature.

Go to Account Settings > Integrated Sales Reporting > Add Tracking Code and you’ll be able to select your PPC network like below:

clickbank ppc conversion tracking

Select the PPC network (Google Adwords in the example), then enter your Google Adwords ID as well as your Adwords conversion tracking code ID.

When your campaigns generate a sale, you’ll be able to see the sales data within your Adwords account interface.

ClickBank Conversion Tracking – Other Traffic Sources

However, very few affiliates now use PPC to send direct traffic to ClickBank products. Instead, most affiliates use blogs, email broadcasts or affiliate landing pages. When you promote affiliate products indirectly, using the built-in PPC traffic tools aren’t really useful or accurate.

So how do you track your ClickBank conversions to a specific traffic source?

At the moment, the only way to do this seems to be with ClickBank’s TID affiliate tracking feature. TID tracking is one of the oldest forms of affiliate tracking, yet it’s the only tracking tool provided by most affiliate networks..

With TID tracking, you insert an identifier code after your Clickbank hoplinks to indentify the source of the sale. When you receive a commission, you’ll be able to see where the sale originated from.

In my LinkTrackr account, I entered the ClickBank hoplink but replaced the TID with LinkTrackr’s TID tracking code as below:

clickbank conversion TID code

For this promotion, I did two different email broadcasts to two different lists – the LinkTrackr users list, and my other list. The LinkTrackr user list is identified with the TID “aweberlt” since I sent out the broadcast using Aweber. The other list was tracked with the TID “aweber”.

In the example below, I can see which sales came from the two different list.

clickbank conversion tracking

 

From this data, and from the click data from my Aweber account, I can calculate the conversion rates for each list. From this experiment, the LinkTrackr customers list generated a much higher conversion rate.

However, there are two main setbacks to using TID codes for ClickBank conversion tracking. They are:

  1. Only one identifier. You’re only allowed to use one identifier code. Some networks allow you to have up to 5 identifier codes, but these are generally the exception to the rule.
  2. Only sales data. The TID tracking method only gives you sales data. With LinkTrackr you can get more information like traffic sources and browsers, but it’s hard to match an individual sale to it’s referring data other than the campaign name.

The bottom line is that you need to use any and all available tools to track your affiliate marketing campaigns.

Although ClickBank conversion tracking appears to be primitive, it’s still a useful tool that every affiliate marketer should make use of.

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Domain Name Cloaking for Affiliate Marketing

by Gobala Krishnan

Besides simple HTML link cloaking and cPanel link cloaking, you can also use domain name cloaking in your affiliate promotions. This means that visitors will only see the top-level domain name, with the underlying affiliate link completely hidden from view.

There are a few advantages to domain name cloaking:

  1. A top level domain hides any trace that it could be an affiliate link
  2. It definitely looks more natural that any cloaked tracking link
  3. It could make the visitor believe that he is on the actual merchant site if the domain name is similar to the actual merchant’s

I’ve seen a lot of top affiliate marketers use domain name cloaking instead of regular link forwarding, and I’ve done some myself. For example:

  1. www.AmemberPro.net – Domain name cloaking that actually leads the visitor to the Amember membership site software.
  2. www.DesperateBuyersGuide.com – Domain name cloaking for the Desperate Buyer’s Guide information product website.
  3. www.EasyMembersPro.com – Domain name cloaking that promotes the Easy Member Pro membership site software.

Domain Name Cloaking Setup

The easiest way to get started with domain name link cloaking is to use the “URL Frame” feature provided by your domain name registrar. In this example, our domain name registrar is NameCheap but most registrars should provide similar functionality.

Domain Name Cloaking

 

Just go to the domain name you want to use, and click on URL Forwarding. Then, enter the affiliate link in both “@” and “www” columns. This tells your registrar to cloak or “frame” the actual affiliate link within the domain name itself.

To add a title and meta tags to your cloaked domain name, just click on as shown below and enter meta tags for both “@” and “www” options:

Domain Name Cloaking

This makes the cloaked domain name look more natural, as if it was a real website. Here’s how your cloaked domain name would look like in a Google search:

Domain Name Cloaking Google

Since cloaking domain names will be indexed by Google like regular websites, you could also benefit from long-tail search engine queries.

Domain Name Cloaking Strategy

Although you can use domain name link cloaking with a naked affiliate link, the smarter way to do this is to use a link you have cloaked with LinkTrackr. By doing it this way, you can get access to LinkTrackr’s viral marketing tools, complete stats reporting and other useful features like A/B split testing.

To track domain name cloaked URLs, I normally add a tracking campaign of “domain” to the back of my LinkTrackr links, like this: http://gobala.linktrackr.com/easymemberpro-domain

This helps me identify how many clicks I get using the cloaked domain name, versus other direct promotion methods and keyword conversions using the LinkTrackr WordPress plugin, like this:

Domain Name Cloaking Tracking

Domain Name Cloaking Drawbacks

Although domain name cloaking seems like a cool thing to do, there are a few drawbacks to this method:

  • If you promote the cloaked domain names directly, you lose all your traffic when you let the domain name expire
  • The cost of yearly domain name renewal can be hard to swallow if you decide to renew it
  • If you registered a domain name with the product / company name in it, you could be putting yourself in danger of trademark violations

So use domain name link cloaking wisely. It would be a great idea if you plan to promote the product long-terms, or if you’re planning to use offline promotion strategies. If you’re not planning to do either of the above, then domain name cloaking is a waste of time and money.

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Improve Landing Page Conversion Rates with A/B Split Testing

by Gobala Krishnan

iStock_000004945226Small Whether you’re selling your own product online or trying to make a living as an affiliate marketer, there are two very important skills you must master if you want to get an unfair advantage over everyone else and make more money with less traffic.

Those two skills are:

  1. How to create an effective landing page
  2. How to split test your landing pages

A “landing page” is basically your “sales page” or “lead capture” page. No matter what you call it, the sole purpose of this page is to convert as many visitors as possible to a sale or a lead.

Instead of sending traffic to your blog or company’s home page, driving them to an effective landing page will help you make much more money online with less traffic. If you’re familiar with Google Adwords, then you should already be familiar with the concept of using landing pages. An effective landing page in Google Adwords will result in a better “Quality Score”, which in turn gets you cheaper clicks and better overall performance of your campaigns.

A Landing Page is A Work in Progress

Too many marketers I know create a single landing page, and stick with it the rest of their lives. They don’t bother to find out the conversion rate of the landing page, and if they can improve it.

The truth is that landing pages are always a work in progress. Super affiliates and top marketers are always tweaking their landing pages, making minute changes that can potentially make them thousands of dollars in the long run.

Even if you manage to improve your conversion rate by 1%, the long term impact is worth the effort. In highly competitive markets, all the big players are testing their landing page conversion rates and you have to as well if you want to even survive in those markets.

How to Do a Simple A/B Split Test

With LinkTrackr, we provide you with the tools you need to perform simple but effective A/B split tests that you can use to get more sales and optins from your landing pages.

Do do a simple A/B split test, you’ll need two web pages – page A and page B. As the name suggest, you will be pitting page A (the control) against page B (the test).

The winning web page becomes the new control page, and the losing page is replaced with another page in a new test. You can of course create more than two pages, but let not make it more complicated than it really needs to be.

Recently I did a test for Mega Money Emails, a product that gives you pre-written ClickBank autoresponder emails you can plug-n-play with Aweber or any other autoresponder service.

I created two landing pages. Both were identical except for the highlighted text in the main headline of the sales copy.

  • Headline Page A: Profit-Pulling
  • Headline Page B: Instant-Profit

splittest-1 splittest-2

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting either landing page to outperform the other significantly. I was shocked when I viewed the results of my Mega Money Emails campaign 24 hours later.

How Much is A Word Worth?

splittest

As you can see, Page A with the words “Profit-Pulling” converted at 5.67%, while Page B with the words “Instant-Profit” converted at a low 0.8%. That means page A performed 708% or seven times better than page B.

At $0.46 per click, Page A also brings in more revenue than Page B at just $0.05 per click.

Of course this is just a preliminary observation and I can only declare the winner after about 300 clicks per page, but isn’t it shocking how one word can make such a huge difference in landing page conversion rates?

If you aren’t already split testing and trying to improve your landing page conversion rates, you’re leaving a lot of money on the table. The truth is, there’s only that much traffic you can buy or get. The key to gaining a competitive edge in your niche market is not more traffic, it’s more conversions.

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LinkTrackr Contest – Win an Apple iPad 64G with 3G + WiFi Worth $839

by Gobala Krishnan

apple-ipad-1Yahoo.. it’s our first contest for 2011 to announce the much-awaited arrival of LinkTrackr version 2.0!

In just six months, we’re turned a useful software into an awesome marketing system that every smart Internet marketer should have as part of his / her arsenal. Today, I can say without a doubt that LinkTrackr is the best link cloaking and link tracking software on the Internet.

We’re so excited, we want everyone to hear about LinkTrackr. This contest is open to everyone, anywhere. Read this post to find out how you can win a brand new Apple iPad 64G with 3G and Wifi – worth $839!

apple-ipad-2 All you need to do to stand a chance of winning is:

  1. Create an honest review of LinkTrackr to explain how it works and why online marketers would benefit from using it.
  2. Confirm your entry by pasting the entry token below before or after your review on the same blog post.
  3. Fill up the contest entry form using the link at the bottom of this page to confirm your review

Creating an Honest User Review of LinkTrackr

The best way to do this is to get yourself a free LinkTrackr account if you don’t already have one. Then create a review with your own original words.

Some simple contest rules:

  1. All reviews created before the date of this post (7th February 2011) will not count, so you need to create a new one to qualify.
  2. Reviews must be in English, and 300 words minimum, and created on a real blog (no autoblog or spam blog)
  3. You’re welcome to use your own LinkTrackr affiliate links in the review
  4. No copy & paste: If you merely copy and paste text from the LinkTrackr website or from reviews created by others, your entry will be rejected. Must be original text.
  5. If you’ve done a review before, then just create a new review as an “update” to announce our new features such as A/B split testing, and conversion tracking.
  6. You’re welcome to download and reuse our existing screenshots, but don’t link directly to them.

Put The Entry Token for This Contest on Your Post

To signify your entry, you must copy and paste the following (including the link back to this post) exactly as below:

This post was created for the LinkTrackr February 2011 Contest where you stand a real chance to win a brand new Apple iPad 64G with 3G + Wifi worth $839.

Blog posts without the entry token above will not be considered.

Fill Up The Contest Entry Form Below

Contest has ended so the form has been removed. Winners will be notified soon below.

How Winners Are Selected and Notified

  1. The best 3 reviews will be the winners
  2. The main winner will be paid via an Amazon Gift Card worth $839.00.
  3. Two consolation prize winners will each receive a $30 LinkTrackr account credit
  4. Contest ends on 24th February 28th February, and winners will be announce here and via email

So go ahead and write your review of LinkTrackr now. Don’t forget that you will also earn 40% recurring commissions when people read your review and signup for LinkTrackr using your affiliate link.

A total of three winners will be notified via email and their blog posts linked to below, so that’s a free backlink to your website as well!

Here Are The Winners…

Drum roll… here are the winners. I know that choosing the “best” review can be subjective, but I’ve just based my choice on the amount of effort put in, actual usage of LinkTrackr, and user interaction. While there were other good submissions, here are the winners:

Congratulations to the winners, I will be contacting you with instructions to claim your prizes!

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