Affiliate since: 02/16/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Philippus's 100 other Ask SC answers

SFI’s own Hit Tracking system is very good for the purpose of tracking the effectiveness of your advertising campaign.

Go to the Power Tools Tab on your home page and click on Key Codes. There you’ll find all the Key Codes that you have used that attracted some hits. To create Key Codes for your ads just choose your own Key Codes and add them to your SFI ID in your Gateway links so that you can track the amount of hits created by your ads to all your gateways.

To track the amount of hits to your different Gateways go to Power Tools and click on Hit Tracking. SFI resets the totals each Sunday, so be sure to check them every week.
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SFI’s own Hit Tracking system is very good for the purpose of tracking the effectiveness of your advertising campaign.

Go to the Power Tools Tab on your home page and click on Key Codes. There you’ll find all the Key Codes that you have used that attracted some hits. To create Key Codes for your ads just choose your own Key Codes and add them to your SFI ID in your Gateway links so that you can track the amount of hits created by your ads to all your gateways.

To track
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Williams's 638 other Ask SC answers

Tracking your ads is very important and the best way to do this is the be very methodical. Use a spreadsheet that tells you where you are advertising and use a keycode for every place you advertise. If you are using safelists you want to also track the 5 major components of your email copy: the subject line, the body, the call to action, the signature line and the PS. For this, track these 1 at a time. If you change to many variables at once, you don't know how to trace the results. You should track your banners, text links, login ads, and everywhere you promote. Every aspect of the promotion is important so track it. The end goal of course is to find that sweet spot that yields the best return on your time and money spent.

Tracking paid ads is a little different from tracking free ads but you still perform the same strategy. Track each component of the ad creative to include the destination url and the landing page. Tracking for clicks, click through, and conversions are paramount. If you are promoting products you also need to know your earnings per click.

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Tracking your ads is very important and the best way to do this is the be very methodical. Use a spreadsheet that tells you where you are advertising and use a keycode for every place you advertise. If you are using safelists you want to also track the 5 major components of your email copy: the subject line, the body, the call to action, the signature line and the PS. For this, track these 1 at a time. If you change to many variables at once, you don't know how to trace the results. You should
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Affiliate since: 07/23/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Pavle's 75 other Ask SC answers

Hello,

I think that the best ways to track yours ads to know which are providing the best results are to put some 3 or 4 digit numbers at yours used gateways.

For example, you can track your tripleclicks gateway at certain advertising site, which you choose to be with 1234 tracking number.
Such gateway should be then like this:
http://www.tripleclicks.com/XXXXXXXX.1234; where XXXXXXXX is your personal SFI ID number.
For other advertising site purpose, use other tracking number, etc.
At the same way combine your other gateway sites.

Then use hit tracking to see what are the best advertising sites for you at:
https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/HitTracking

That is the easiest and best way for tracking.

To Your Success!
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Hello,

I think that the best ways to track yours ads to know which are providing the best results are to put some 3 or 4 digit numbers at yours used gateways.

For example, you can track your tripleclicks gateway at certain advertising site, which you choose to be with 1234 tracking number.
Such gateway should be then like this:
http://www.tripleclicks.com/XXXXXXXX.1234; where XXXXXXXX is your personal SFI ID number.
For other advertising site purpose, use
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

One of the best ways I have found to really keep track of how things are going ad-wise is bitly.com. It's a site where you can create custom links that you can track to see how many click happened and when. It's free and you can create as many links as you want. What I sometimes do, depending on my campaign, is that I use it in combination with social media. You can create a special link (or a number of specially tagged links) specifying a particular social network, make that link a bitly and post. I've been able to see who's working and who's not that way.
You can specially tag links using Google's URL builder, which is also free. You can create a link for a text ad, for example, and one for a banner ad. Both would be different links in bitly and you can track to see which is getting more clicks, what times and what days.
There are plenty of other ways but I find that with these simple free tactics, I'm able to really get a handle on my advertising efforts without spending too much

Good Luck
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One of the best ways I have found to really keep track of how things are going ad-wise is bitly.com. It's a site where you can create custom links that you can track to see how many click happened and when. It's free and you can create as many links as you want. What I sometimes do, depending on my campaign, is that I use it in combination with social media. You can create a special link (or a number of specially tagged links) specifying a particular social network, make that link a bitly and post.
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Affiliate since: 11/01/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Julian's 27 other Ask SC answers

The best way to track your ads is to use SFI key codes. I recommend using a legend where you can monitor ad groups per particular sites.

For example 1XXX can represent ads placed on one site from banners, text ads etc. listing each from 1001, 1002 and so on while 2XXX is another ad group. All the while taking care to avoid pre-defined system codes see https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/KeyCodeTracking for more details.

Also for PRMs, PSAs/ECAs recruits you can start from 0 and count up to keep track of ads sent to prospects.

If you use a blog or personal website to place your ads you can also get additional tracking information from Google Analytics.
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The best way to track your ads is to use SFI key codes. I recommend using a legend where you can monitor ad groups per particular sites.

For example 1XXX can represent ads placed on one site from banners, text ads etc. listing each from 1001, 1002 and so on while 2XXX is another ad group. All the while taking care to avoid pre-defined system codes see https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/KeyCodeTracking for more details.

Also for PRMs, PSAs/ECAs recruits you can start from 0 and
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

"What are the best ways to track my ads to know which are providing the best results?"

Hello,

To track your ads you have the option of Hit Tracking (Find it In Power Tools Tab)
To know which ads are giving you the best results you have the option of Key Codes
Tracking where your advertising responses are coming from is VITAL to successful marketing, and key codes play a CRUCIAL role in your efforts.
As an SFI affiliate, you can (and should) use Key Codes in all your advertising. You choose your own Key Codes and append it to the end of your SFI ID number within your Gateway links.
To know how to use Key Codes and to know more about Key Codes go through this link below https://www.sfimg.com/Support/Solution?id=19365.
To Track your ads and How many Hits you got Please visit the link below
https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/HitTracking

Hope this helps,
Cheers!
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"What are the best ways to track my ads to know which are providing the best results?"

Hello,

To track your ads you have the option of Hit Tracking (Find it In Power Tools Tab)
To know which ads are giving you the best results you have the option of Key Codes
Tracking where your advertising responses are coming from is VITAL to successful marketing, and key codes play a CRUCIAL role in your efforts.
As an SFI affiliate, you can (and should) use Key Codes
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi,
When you are advertising your gateways such as Affiliate signup link or TC member referral, you should plan to use different key codes in the link such as
-- 3 digit key code for Affiliate sign up for REAL gateway,
-- 4 digit keycode for REAL2 gateway,
-- 5 digit key code for Tripleclicks gateway

Next the important thing is to track the advertising media that proved to be successful for your ads.

To track the advertising media, you now can use identification such as for your REAL gateway, you may use keycode starting with 1 to identify one platform, keycode starting with 2 for next ad platform and so on.

Once you are done with the tracking plan now you have to maintain a record of the advertising media or platform detail and the corresponding key code you have used.

Once this exercise is complete, now start advertising and keep monitoring your HITs in the PowerTools option.

This will give you a fair idea about which ad has been successful as well as through which advertising option.

Hope this helps.
Thanks
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Hi,
When you are advertising your gateways such as Affiliate signup link or TC member referral, you should plan to use different key codes in the link such as
-- 3 digit key code for Affiliate sign up for REAL gateway,
-- 4 digit keycode for REAL2 gateway,
-- 5 digit key code for Tripleclicks gateway

Next the important thing is to track the advertising media that proved to be successful for your ads.

To track the advertising media, you now can use
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Raymond's 64 other Ask SC answers

The best way by far is SFI's own keycode tracker. This great tool is available to every member who generates at least 1000 Versapoints in any given month.

It is important to set up some method of tracking your keycodes so you have an easy reference to know what code is being used where. This can be a notebook, a spreadsheet, a database... whatever works best for you.

There are also several URL shortening services that offer analytics. These includes sites like bit.ly, tinyurl, goo.gl, awe.sm, ls.gd, cli.gs and ow.ly

Hope this helps.
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The best way by far is SFI's own keycode tracker. This great tool is available to every member who generates at least 1000 Versapoints in any given month.

It is important to set up some method of tracking your keycodes so you have an easy reference to know what code is being used where. This can be a notebook, a spreadsheet, a database... whatever works best for you.

There are also several URL shortening services that offer analytics. These includes sites like bit.ly, tinyurl,
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

One can track the response against his/her advertisements through key codes and hit tracking.

"Key codes" is nothing but the code by which the advertiser can understand the type of advertisements deliver results and which does not.

You can choose any number for your ad-based Key Codes, except the following codes currently reserved for SFI corporate use:

1101 only for affiliates from S-Builder.
1104 only for PSAs To Go/PSAs won at Auctions
1200 only for affiliates who were not referred to SFI by anyone.
1300 only for TripleClicks members via the TC Tell-A-Friend feature.

Affiliate can choose his/her own Key Codes and append it to the end of your SFI ID number within your Gateway links (for example: http://www.sfi1.biz/SFIID.123 or http://www.sfi4.com/SFIID.123/FREE). System will automatically capture the Key Codes when someone joins SFI or becomes a TC Member through one of the Gateway links with a Key Code attached. Affiliate can see the Key Codes referred to within incoming PSA and PRM Notifications and also in the "KC" column within his/her Genealogy, providing immediate feedback on the effectiveness of his/her ads. In other words, by embedding different Key Codes into various advertising efforts, affiliate can easily and quickly identify where his/her results are coming from, which ad sources are pulling, and which ad sources are not.

As an example, let's say that affiliate runs a particular SFI ad in a popular blog and on an offline flyer. He/she refers prospective affiliates to his/her FREE Gateway on both ads, but using different Key Codes for each source, he/she will be able to tell which one is bringing him/her better results:


Blog: http://www.sfi4.com/SFIID.100/FREE

Flyer: http://www.sfi4.com/SFIID.200/FREE



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One can track the response against his/her advertisements through key codes and hit tracking.

"Key codes" is nothing but the code by which the advertiser can understand the type of advertisements deliver results and which does not.

You can choose any number for your ad-based Key Codes, except the following codes currently reserved for SFI corporate use:

1101 only for affiliates from S-Builder.
1104 only for PSAs To Go/PSAs won at Auctions
1200
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Affiliate since: 10/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ronelle's 268 other Ask SC answers

Look under Power Tools tab on home page for KeyCodes. There you will find a thorough explanation of what keycodes are, what they represent, how best to use them and when.

When you get your advertising started, keep very clear, specific information about the codes, ie: where you have put them, when you started that particular campaign (date), how long it is to run, what days and/or times it will run... You need to keep records that will tell you pretty much at a quick glance which ads/sites are the most productive for you.

Then you will be able to analyze all your data, learn what should be your next move.

Good luck to you!:)...
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Look under Power Tools tab on home page for KeyCodes. There you will find a thorough explanation of what keycodes are, what they represent, how best to use them and when.

When you get your advertising started, keep very clear, specific information about the codes, ie: where you have put them, when you started that particular campaign (date), how long it is to run, what days and/or times it will run... You need to keep records that will tell you pretty much at a quick glance which ads/sites
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