subject: Tracking Tips - Where Your Targeted Traffic Is Coming From [print this page] Tracking Tips - Where Your Targeted Traffic Is Coming From
Applying ANALYTICSUSING ANALYTICSIf you Google the Tool URL Builder from Google, you'll get this Google Analytics URL Builder. You put in your website address here that you want to traffic to. You put in the campaign source say, Facebook. Campaign Medium, that will be social. Campaign term, that will be identifying keywords that you're using. Campaign content, that will be the particular content that you're using or your ad and the Campaign name, so that would be launch, phase 1 or phase 2. Hit generate URL and you'll get a special analytics website address and that will pop up in your analytics account now telling you all of these fields.URL KEYNow I've got this handy URL key where we put our index of the different websites that we use or the different sources, the campaign source, the campaign medium, the campaign term we punch in there whenever we use the tool. Then what type of content: what layer it is and whether it's direct or a specific tool. Using this keyword tool we can actually get some amazing data.Now I've put this in the paid member's area and you can access the excel template for tracking your own campaigns.LNX2 URL SHORTENERNow you may want to shorten the links and you want to use a search engine friendly shortener. So if you want to use LNX2.co you're certainly welcome to use that. You can use anything else. But some of the web properties you may want to shorten the link because it does give you a long extension. This will not lose the search engine factor it will pass through.Trackable TrafficI can guarantee you that almost every internet marketer are not tracking their analytics to this level and that's because they haven't bothered or they don't know how. You can see it's pretty obvious once you track to this level that you can simply reverse engineer where all of your traffic is coming from and go and get more just like it. You can also tell which tools of yours are getting you the traffic and making the difference. And you know what's even better? You can actually track which ones caused your sales and that is pretty awesome stuff.Stop doing things blindly. Find out which of your campaigns is bringing in the right kind of traffic. Start tracking your results and enjoy a significant increase in profitability with a boost in targeted traffic.
