Affiliate Challenge: How To Get Your Article Stats Part 1

In this 2-part post I wanted to share with you some of my article stats and conversions so far, but instead of just writing it down I thought I’d show you how I’m going to figure it all out, as I do it.

I’ll use 3 articles that I have written to demo how im going to get all my number and figures. I’m going to start with the very first article that made me my first sale a couple of weeks ago, this article is directly linking from my affiliate link to the products sales page(Clickbank Product).

The next article I will pull the stats from is one that is actually linking to a small mini site I created to get the visitors information. So rather than the person clicking on my link in the articles and being taken to the products sales page, they are instead taken to my mini site where I hope they enter their email information so I can start to sell them a product via a pre-written email sequence.

The third article I wanted to take a closer look at is for a CPA offer I picked up on Commission Junction(cj.com). It’s from this type of article that I want to get the visitor to click on my affiliate link within the article, which will then take them to the vendors website where I hope they will take action and enter in the information required for me to get the small CPA commission.

So here is what I should end up with…..

• Direct Linking Article Stats And Conversions.
• Article Stats And Conversions That Links To My Mini Site.
• CPA Article Stats And Conversions.

Here is what I should find out….

I want to know what percent of people visit an particular article, then want to find out more by clicking on my links within that article.

Direct Article Links

I want to know how many readers to my articles went on to visit that products sales page via my link. This will tell me two things…..

1) If the article I’ve written is doing its job by making people want the product, or at least to want to find out more about it(Meaning they click through to find out more).

2) What the products sales page is converting like. Say if I send the vendors website 600 visitors, but it does not turn one of them into a buyer, then I know that there could be an issue with the sales page, or product itself. So I can them move on to another related product and try that one.

Article That Links To My Mini-Site

1) Again, I’ll find out how this article is converting readers into clickers;)

2) I’ll know the number of people that hit my opt-in page and enter in their information, and the number of people that hit my mini site page and leave. This will tell me if I need to change my mini site so that I can increase the number of people that visit it and then want to submit their emails.

CPA Offer Articles

1) Conversions from my articles to my CPA offer page.(Direct link again)

2) It’s meant to be easier to try and get people to just enter some simple information, without  them parting with any cash as they would do for a product. Some CPA offers only really need a valid name, address and email for you to actually earn your commissions. Then from that point onward the vendor will sell to that possible customer via their own email sequence. Your work was just to get them on that list!

Ok, I think I covered what I want to find out by doing all this. The next post is going to be purely practical, and follow me along as I work out all the numbers and stats to give me the information I require. I’ll either post it today or tomorrow;)

## Just one thing. As im using Articlesbase as my main article directory, they don’t actually allow direct links within articles. So when I reference a direct linking article in Articlebase, I actually mean a redirected direct link using PHP -> Find out what im talking about go here -> Php Redirect Post.

Tags: article conversions, article stats, direct linking articles

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