Ad
Tracking:
An Ad Tracker is a
program which tells a webmaster where the visitors on
his website come from. If he has
several links
out there in the web in ads,
banners
, textlinks etc. he needs to know which one is successful
in terms of generating visitors and which one is not. If an
Internet marketer is in a situation of “I know that 50% of my
advertising is ineffective, but I don’t know which 50%” he can
solve it by Ad Tracking which delivers exactly that
information.
Possible applications for
an Ad Tracker could be:
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You put your
ad with a textlink to your website in 2
different
newsletters
. The Ad Tracker tells you, that your ad in
newsletter A was seen as many times as in newsletter B
but was clicked twice as often by readers of
A. Given the conversion rates were equal you would
come to the decision that you should invest your ad
budget exclusively for further advertisement in
newsletter A as you would make twice as much money
then.
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You would
run
Google
AdSense on each
page of your pets website and you would learn from your
Ad Tracker results that the ads on the cats page
got 40% more clicks then those on the dogs page. Of
course you would enforce what proves to be successful
and add some more pages with content for cats friends.
Without an Ad Tracker you would probably figure out
that most clicks must come from the birds page as it
gets the most visitors on your site.
Sophisticated AdTrackers
are able to deliver vital information in much more detail.
Correctly evaluating this information and enforcing the things
that get a lot of clicks can boost the income of clever
Internet marketers in totally new ranges. The underlying
philosophy is that you can’t expand something if you don’t know
the current size of it.

Example of the
tracking results of Google AdSense ads on www.hdtvplace.com
delivered by AdSpyTracker. In this case the info is about
which ad on which page gets how many clicks. Results
detailed like this are not awailable from the Google AdSense
statistics system.
[from Ad=
short form of Advertisement which goes back to Latin
advertere
= to pay attention
to;
the origin of Tracking is Old Norse trakke=
trodden spot]
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Recommended
Resources:
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AdSpyTracker
is a
tracking program specifically for
AdSense pages which gives a lot more
vital information than AdSense
channels.
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Ad Tracking
Supertips
, a free ebook tutorial which
gives much more insight on why, what
and how to track.
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AdTrackz
for many just the best
tracking program on the
web!
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