Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 44 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

The Hit Tracking is indeed a powerful tool to use in promoting your SFI Gateways. Tracking your results in your advertisement is a vital part of your SFI business. A good marketer needs to know where he can place his advertisement effectively and the Hit Tracking is very handy for this purpose.

How to use the Hit Tracking?

When placing an ad using your SFI Gateways, include the key code. If you use the real2 SFI Gateway, your link that includes your SFI ID will followed by the period and your selected key code. It looks like this: http://www.sfi4.com/SFI ID.15. The number 15 is your key code.

Try to use all your SFI Gateways when placing ads using different key codes. In this way you'll be able to find out which one is effective.
You can only use the Key Code Tracking if you have at least 1000 VP for the current month.

If you have a personal website or blog that links to one of your SFI Gateways, you can add also your key codes.
When you log in to your SFI homepage, you can track the results of your advertisement by clicking: https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/HitTracking. Based on the results you can make decision where to place your ads effectively.
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The Hit Tracking is indeed a powerful tool to use in promoting your SFI Gateways. Tracking your results in your advertisement is a vital part of your SFI business. A good marketer needs to know where he can place his advertisement effectively and the Hit Tracking is very handy for this purpose.

How to use the Hit Tracking?

When placing an ad using your SFI Gateways, include the key code. If you use the real2 SFI Gateway, your link that includes your SFI ID will followed by the
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Affiliate since: 08/03/2013, Power Rank: 455 | Read Lisa's 11 other Ask SC answers

This is a very good question. After all, this one of the most important parts of our job in this business by promoting.

SFI has provided a general hit tracking system for their domain links for SFI and TripleClicks. There we can keep track during the week how often your links are being visited. But how do we make these links for effective?

First, creating your own keycode system is the first step. You can use numbers correlating to what type of advertising the link is connected to. For example, 123... 1 is for free advertising. 2 is for which advertising sight assign the number 2 to. 3 pre-assign a number for whatever else you feel is important to note.

Second, keep track of which ones are being hit not necessarily the most but which one get more conversions. That is, how many actually sign up after visiting your link.

Third, focus on the successful areas but continue experimenting. There are places where I am able let my links sit and be searched and they do get hit and even sign ups without any money. I don't do much with them so I would never take it away even if I get just one sign up every few months. The successful areas are found in the ratio of time/money per conversion.

Creating your own unique domain like a blog or website is very important as you essentially want to be "unique" out there. Unfortunately SFI does not have an area to keep track of hits when you do this but there are services that you can sign up your link to track your hits.

I know this is an area I am currently studying more on and I know I need to do better at. But I am finding that record keeping is very important. I am also currently trying to create an excel system to keep track of my hits.

I hope this helps. There is also a training chapter on this subject at https://www.sfimg.com/Training/Lessons/49?referrer=search and https://www.sfimg.com/Training/Lessons/50?referrer=search

Aim High! Dream Big!



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This is a very good question. After all, this one of the most important parts of our job in this business by promoting.

SFI has provided a general hit tracking system for their domain links for SFI and TripleClicks. There we can keep track during the week how often your links are being visited. But how do we make these links for effective?

First, creating your own keycode system is the first step. You can use numbers correlating to what type of advertising the link is connected
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Affiliate since: 05/05/2004, Power Rank: 916 | Read Robertson's 212 other Ask SC answers

Tracking your SFI websites is very important in order to know if your website is getting enough traffic and from where the traffic is coming from. Key codes are used on the URLs to identify where the traffic is coming from and the volume of traffic from each source. Advertising campaigns can then be adjusted to obtain optimum traffic.

PSAs, ECAs, PRMs and product sales can come from different sources for example, free classifieds, paid classifieds, personal websites co-ops and blogs etc. Having key codes zeros in on the sources of traffic and helps us to focus or adjust our campaigns accordingly to generate maximum traffic.

You can use any numerical key code greater than 0 that you wish, other than key codes in the range 1100 to 1300 which have been reserved for SFI Corporate.

Some examples of Key code application:

Website 2100
Blog 3100
Free Classifieds 4100
Paid Classifieds 5100
Facebook 6100
Twitter 7100
Traffic Exchanges 8100

Upon sponsoring PSAs, SFI will send you New PSA notifications with the key codes you have used and in this way you will know the source. Based on the quantity of PSAs from each source you can further enhance your campaigns to get optimum results.



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Tracking your SFI websites is very important in order to know if your website is getting enough traffic and from where the traffic is coming from. Key codes are used on the URLs to identify where the traffic is coming from and the volume of traffic from each source. Advertising campaigns can then be adjusted to obtain optimum traffic.

PSAs, ECAs, PRMs and product sales can come from different sources for example, free classifieds, paid classifieds, personal websites co-ops and blogs etc.
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hit Tracking is a Power tool, an advanced Marketing and Ad Technique. It helps you work with clarity and avoid placing your ads blindly.
Find the details in Power Tools/Key Code Tracking through the link below.
https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/HitTracking

What does Hit Tracking do?
It gives you detailed account of the source of your sign-ups. For a given ad campaign, if you have advertised in two or more sites, and you have placed different tracking codes in each of them, those codes will tell you whether a given site is yielding good results for you.

How Hit Tracking can help you?
Knowing which sites are productive and which ones are not allows you to focus your advertising efforts where you are getting good results. You want to duplicate both the wording of those ads and the advertising support you are using such as banners and pictures in those sites that offering the best results.

Long term effects
When you tweak your ads this way, after a period you determine as indicative enough, you will have a list of sites where you will focus your ad campaigns. This monitoring has to done periodically. Some sites may stop being productive, other sites may improve. You will adapt to the new realities your advertising and marketing strategy.

This is what the most successful marketers do on a regular basis.

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Hit Tracking is a Power tool, an advanced Marketing and Ad Technique. It helps you work with clarity and avoid placing your ads blindly.
Find the details in Power Tools/Key Code Tracking through the link below.
https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/HitTracking

What does Hit Tracking do?
It gives you detailed account of the source of your sign-ups. For a given ad campaign, if you have advertised in two or more sites, and you have placed different tracking codes in each of them,
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2013, Power Rank: 2353 | Read Jennie's 147 other Ask SC answers

Hi,

SFI hits tracking uses a key code to monitor traffic to your gateways, it is a business activity, it is a part of your business records.

It keeps you informed of the effectiveness of your advertising or promotion. It lets you know where to spend you advertising dollars and where not to. It lets you know where the best places to advertise are.

-You cannot use the key codes 1101, 1200 or 1300
-You can use any key code up to 4 numbers.


You can use the key codes to track and compare FREE and PAID advertising, One code for FREE and another for PAID.

You can use the code to track and compare different forms of advertising, for example:
Email advertising,traffic exchange, local newspaper or magazine. Use a separate code for each form.

You can use a separate code for Twitter and Facebook, Or you can use one code for all social media. It depends on whether you want to compare Twitter and Facebook or Social Media and Email.

You can use a code for different locations. If you use 3 different email services you can use a different code for each email service.

You can use a code on your website or blog to track the number of visitors to your gateways from your website. Use the code on all the links on your website, If you use 100 as your key code, it will be:.100
www.tripleclicks.com/your ID.100 would be a code for your TripleClicks shop.

You can adjust your html codes by adding the key code to your ID number within the code.

Keep your own records of the stats, SFI resets the stats counter on Sunday.

Hope this helps.


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Hi,

SFI hits tracking uses a key code to monitor traffic to your gateways, it is a business activity, it is a part of your business records.

It keeps you informed of the effectiveness of your advertising or promotion. It lets you know where to spend you advertising dollars and where not to. It lets you know where the best places to advertise are.

-You cannot use the key codes 1101, 1200 or 1300
-You can use any key code up to 4 numbers.


You
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Affiliate since: 07/26/2007, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Williams's 638 other Ask SC answers

Hit tracking is just a way of measuring your traffic to your ads. You can improve your ads by closely monitoring hits over a period of time. For example in a split test, you are testing the profitability of 2 ads called Ad A and Ad B.

You are testing the overall responsiveness of 1 gateway over another gateway. The first gateway, http://www.sfi4.com/xxxxxx.5/free and http://www.sfi4.com/xxxxxx.7 The first gateway recruits PSAs and the second gateway is recruits PRMs. After a week of promotion, the first gateway comes to 100 hits and the second gateway comes to 75 hits. From those hits you net 2 PSAs and 5 PRMs.

According to traffic, the 1st gateways appears to get more traffic but the second is more productive. After tweaking your ads and another week, you find the first gateway has 200 hits and 1 more PSAs. The second gateway produces 250 hits and 2 more PRMs. Therefore, it can be concluded that either gateway 1 is less attractive or that ad source less productive. Further testing is needed to make a final determination.

Consequentially, it is clear that hit tracking and key coding is a highly effective way to monitor your promotional efforts. You can determine which gateways work best for your ads and which places those ads are most effective. It becomes a game of cat and mouse. The better you learn to play the game of advertising the better results you will get and the more success you will have. The key is to promote, promote, promote, and when you've promoted . . .promote some more! Always track your ads for improvement based on results.
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Hit tracking is just a way of measuring your traffic to your ads. You can improve your ads by closely monitoring hits over a period of time. For example in a split test, you are testing the profitability of 2 ads called Ad A and Ad B.

You are testing the overall responsiveness of 1 gateway over another gateway. The first gateway, http://www.sfi4.com/xxxxxx.5/free and http://www.sfi4.com/xxxxxx.7 The first gateway recruits PSAs and the second gateway is recruits PRMs. After a week
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Affiliate since: 10/09/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Simon's 35 other Ask SC answers

If you read the articles on posting ads, such as Johan's now legendary "Guide To Free Advertising", you'll learn all about using text ads, placing them, and running a successful campaign. Likewise if you read through the forum you'll see lots of good advice.

One question that will keep coming up is "WHERE do I advertise" and it's companion "What are the best sites?"

Now if an affiliate had a successful site and posted it publicly the site would soon be flooded with SFI ads and would become useless to them. The secret is to find your OWN successful sites.

This will very much be a case of trial and error, keep posting ads until you get sign ups. However this task will be impossible if you don't know which sites are sending you the signups.

The answer is to track your ads. Have a unique code for each site you use, for anywhere you post a link so you know which sites are sending your your signups and which are sending you nothing.

Very soon, by using the hit tracking system this way, you will have a list of sites that, when you post to them, send you regular signups. You can carry on with the process until you have a large list of successful sites and are able to run big successful promotions that are effective everytime.

It takes time and patience, and in some cases money, and the rewards are worth all the effort put it and the some!


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If you read the articles on posting ads, such as Johan's now legendary "Guide To Free Advertising", you'll learn all about using text ads, placing them, and running a successful campaign. Likewise if you read through the forum you'll see lots of good advice.

One question that will keep coming up is "WHERE do I advertise" and it's companion "What are the best sites?"

Now if an affiliate had a successful site and posted it publicly the site would
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Affiliate since: 06/29/2000, Power Rank: 59 | Read Leon's 55 other Ask SC answers

My answer is going to be in two parts. Part one will be directed at "Hit Tracking" specifically and part two will be directed at "Campaign Tracking". My experience is that it's very important to understand how "Hit Tracking" fits into an overall campaign tracking system.

__________________ Part One - Hit Tracking __________________

Hit tracking allows you to track the number of "suspects" that land on a particular "landing page" or "gateway page". However, until the "suspect" fills out a form and clicks submit they are NOT a "prospect" or lead. Hit tracking is useful in determining if your advertising and landing/gateway page are working together to produce an acceptable amount of "form fills" or prospects/leads. If you're seeing a high number of hits, but a low number of "form fills" or prospects/leads then something is wrong. Maybe your ad does not match well with landing/gateway page for example. You may also see a similar term called "bounce rate" which means that a "suspect" only looked at one page and then left the website. Use testing to increase your results.

SFI's hit tracking tool resets each Sunday:

https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/HitTracking

__________________ Part Two - Campaign Tracking __________________

You can use paper, a spreadsheet or even a database to perform steps 1 to 5. You do NOT need a complicated system, but as you grow it would make your system a LOT easier to track if you used a computer based tool like a spreadsheet.

IMPORTANT: All steps require you to track the advertising source of each lead. Use Key Code Tracking!

1) Track the "per lead" cost from your advertising. Ad cost divided by total number of leads generated.

2) Track the "per Affiliate" conversion cost from your advertising. Ad cost divided by total number of Affiliates converted from leads.

3) Track the "per EA2" conversion cost of the Affiliates from your advertising. Ad cost divided by total number of EA2s generated from Affiliates.

4) Advanced Metric: Track the EA2 "burn rate" from your advertising. This would be how long each lead stays active as an EA2 or above. This metric can be very important when you determine the demographics (countries and income levels) you want to target with your ads.

5) Determine which leads within your "lead system" overall convert the best to EA2, based on 1 to 4, and then "scale up" what you did to generate and convert those leads.

Hint: Use A/B split testing through every step of the advertising process! When using A/B split testing put 80% of your budget in your best ads and use the other 20% for testing purposes. A/B split testing = Always Be Testing! Google the term when you get a chance...

SFI provides the tools you need to get started with your very own "lead system". However, for advanced Affiliates you may want to graduate to building and owning your own list. The basic steps are still the same except you would capture all leads on your own website and then market SFI directly to each prospect in whatever manner you see fit.

Some of the SFI tools you should consider:

https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/KeyCodeTracking

https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/TLCoop

I'm aware that all of the above may sound complicated. However, I would encourage everyone that reads this response to copy this information for future reference. If you want to earn SERIOUS INCOME from your internet marketing business you're going to need a lead system. I can assure you that if you take things one step at a time you'll be a professional within a very reasonable period of time. See you at the top!
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My answer is going to be in two parts. Part one will be directed at "Hit Tracking" specifically and part two will be directed at "Campaign Tracking". My experience is that it's very important to understand how "Hit Tracking" fits into an overall campaign tracking system.

__________________ Part One - Hit Tracking __________________

Hit tracking allows you to track the number of "suspects" that land on a particular "landing page"
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Affiliate since: 12/25/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ripan's 2 other Ask SC answers

I am always say to that SFI provides nearly all the required tools which its affiliates need to succeed in the business. Hit-tracking is no exception. Come to think of it, as an Internet Business Person with Gateways advertised out there, any smart entrepreneur must have and use tools to track hits to the Gateways of the products so advertised. In SFI, that tool is found here in this link:

https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/HitTracking

From the information provided by your installed personal key codes, you can track the number of times your gateway links are clicked because the tools record the number of hits/clicks your ads receive. You can thereafter use the 2 parameters below to make informed decisions on the effectiveness of your ads.

1. The volume of hits/clicks. This represents the number of persons who have actually seen your ads. The higher the number of visitors, the higher the chances/probability of sign-ups.

2. The number of sign-ups compared to the volume of clicks on your key code. This is simply termed “conversion rate.” The higher the rate, the more effective your ads are.

Armed with this information, it becomes easier for you to determine how you can improve on your promotions. You may choose to change the ads platforms for higher visibility or you can improve on the quality of the ads. You may choose to do any other things which can lead to higher figures on these 2 parameters.

That is how best to use hit tracking to make your promotions more effective in SFI. I hope this is your questions answer?
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I am always say to that SFI provides nearly all the required tools which its affiliates need to succeed in the business. Hit-tracking is no exception. Come to think of it, as an Internet Business Person with Gateways advertised out there, any smart entrepreneur must have and use tools to track hits to the Gateways of the products so advertised. In SFI, that tool is found here in this link:

https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/HitTracking

From the information provided by your installed
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 722 | Read Sule's 287 other Ask SC answers

Hi Marija,

I am always bold to say that SFI provides nearly all the required tools which its affiliates need to succeed in the business. Hit-tracking is no exception. Come to think of it, as an Internet Business Person with Gateways advertised out there, any smart entrepreneur must have and use tools to track hits to the Gateways of the products so advertised. In SFI, that tool is found here in this link:

https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/HitTracking OR under Power Tools/Hit Tracking

From the information provided by your installed personal key codes, you can track the number of times your gateway links are clicked because the tools record the number of hits/clicks your ads receive. You can thereafter use the 2 parameters below to make informed decisions on the effectiveness of your ads.

1. The volume of hits/clicks. This represents the number of persons who have actually seen your ads. The higher the number of visitors, the higher the chances/probability of sign-ups.

2. The number of sign-ups compared to the volume of clicks on your key code. This is simply termed “conversion rate.” The higher the rate, the more effective your ads are.

Armed with this information, it becomes easier for you to determine how you can improve on your promotions. You may choose to change the ads platforms for higher visibility or you can improve on the quality of the ads. You may choose to do any other things which can lead to higher figures on these 2 parameters.

That is how best to use hit tracking to make your promotions more effective in SFI. I hope this answers your question? Best wishes.

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Hi Marija,

I am always bold to say that SFI provides nearly all the required tools which its affiliates need to succeed in the business. Hit-tracking is no exception. Come to think of it, as an Internet Business Person with Gateways advertised out there, any smart entrepreneur must have and use tools to track hits to the Gateways of the products so advertised. In SFI, that tool is found here in this link:

https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/HitTracking OR under Power Tools/Hit
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