While doing affiliate programs such as cj, clickbank, shareasale and linkshare, Click throughs earn you income.
To maximize click throughs, of course, you know that you must find out highvalue content that OVERdelivers what your visitors were looking for, tracking these affiliate links is one of the solutions out there.
cj: commission junction
we can track CJ.com's click through by sending them SID value.
clickbank
Clickbank affiliates can track conversions to improve affiliate marketing income, and not have to ask the merchant to add a bunch of code to their website!
Clickbank tracking works simply by placing the following after you affiliate URL. ?tid=keyword You can substitute “keyword” for any eight characters containing alpha or numeric values. You should make this identifier a unique value for each keyword. When you make a sale using this method, Clickbank will display which identifier resulted in the sale.
shareasale
AffTrack ID: ShareASale has a parameter called "afftrack=" which can be used to identify a specific click, if your site can insert an appropriate ID (click ID, user ID) to pass as a parameter.
tracking affiliate links through SAS. You need to append 'afftrack=' value and the destination url.
Linkshare
LinkShare Tracking does not rely on cookies to track affiliate referrals. There is direct communication between the Merchant and LinkShare, and the web browser does not present an additional potential point of failure.
The exposure of cookies to browser behavior is nothing new. The industry has long recognised the risks of cookie deletion as a result of:
• Browser privacy and security settings
• Anti-Spyware program/s
• Anti-Virus programs
• Users manually clearing their cookies
LinkShare’s patented tracking remains the most reliable and secure in the Affiliate Marketing industry.
