Web Traffic

I have a number of friends who have services or products they want me to help advertise on the web. If I put up an online ad and pass a new customer through to my client’s site, we can track this traffic easily, but we want to tie it to a cost-per-purchase basis and I’m not sure how we track that person all the way through to an actual purchase. These are small clients with simple websites. I want a technical solution, rather than something like asking people how they heard of the product when they purchase.

I imagine off the shelf affiliate management code or an affiliate management service (whose names escape me) I’ve heard the big time affiliate services like cpa networks use are expensive, perhaps $1000/mo.

elitius is a freebie, postaffiliate has free and pro versions of their php scripts

Here are some possibilities working in that field:

I have a website and I have been tracking it’s traffic for some time now. But I get some likes like www.forum.com/pagename.php – When I click it does not show me what the page was. Is there a way for me to generate spesific links to give out to people and to use in different places so i know exactly where my traffic is coming from?
xeo_2004 I understand that, put I would like to know exact pages- so for example if I post a url 10 times in the same forim. I would like to be able to see which pages are refering the most. for example maybe there is a tracking program that will give me urls like www.mysite.com/8923
www.mysite.com/1223
www.mysite.com/9576
www.mysite.com/9332

this way i know where i put what link

your web tracker does not include the query string of the url referer:

example: your refer page should be like

www.forum.com/pagename.php?varialble=x

where your tracker only gets

www.forum.com/pagename.php

not including ?varialble=x or whatever…

but atlest you know what website is refering but not the specific page though.

www.forum.com

STOP! If you’re not tracking the traffic to your website, you’re wasting marketing money that could be growing your small business.

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I Need to know is there any solution for inbound link management.

for eg:
if i add my web site link to the yahoo directory i want to track how many times traffic comes from yahoo directory. I don’t want to use 3rd party sites because then i have to use there URL. My web site is based on Joomla. Can any one help me to resolve this issue.

Thanks.

if you are using php the variable $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] will return the refferal page’s url. From there you can log and manage. There are also equivalent variable in other languages as well.

John Mulligan, SEO-PR (http://www.seo-pr.com) interviews Chris Zaharias, VP, North American Sales, SearchCenter, Omniture (http://www.omniture.com) at SES San Jose 2009 about the Omniture sponsored track about a Creditcards.com case study. Chris says creditcards.com is a large site that drives leads to credit card issuers. Creditcards.com is using Omniture technologies to take their search marketing campaigns and operate them in a multi-channel way, taking into account the value that search generates and looking at the impact of other marketing channels on paid search. Search is part of an overall visitor acquisition strategy that involves online and offline components. Chris says the study examined tracking of all of the traffic to their website and capturing offline data on the credit card applications. Omniture was able to automate this integration between online and offline channels. Creditcards.com ultimately saw upwards of 40% lift in completed credit card applications and approvals from the issuers. For more information on speaking and presenting at SES, please visit: http://www.searchenginestrategies.com

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I have a website and I have been tracking it’s traffic for some time now. But I get some likes like www.forum.com/pagename.php – When I click it does not show me what the page was. Is there a way for me to generate spesific links to give out to people and to use in different places so i know exactly where my traffic is coming from?

With a server side language you can easily get the exact referring page.

ASD Cash Generator is a "profit/revenue- share" type internet advertising company that allows you to generate money by viewing websites. I’m using ASD to advertise 5 of my sites and have received real traffic and leads from it.

Each day a paid member views ads, they get a share in the profits of the company paid directly to their accounts until the member pockets 25% more than they spent. At the time of this writing, their current daily interest rate has been averaging about 0.50% – 2% per day, and is primarily based on the total the number of ad package sales for the previous day. The daily rebate rate will vary and is not fixed.

All you have to do is view 24 web sites each day for 15 seconds each to receive your daily rebate that equals to about 6 minutes.

Who’s running the show?

The company was founded over a year ago by CEO, Andy Bowdoin. In doing my due diligence and searching over 9 pages of information on Google on him (all positive), I found that he has quite an extraordinary reputation, not only as a career Advertising man, but as a man of exceptional integrity.

He has over 40 years experience in sales and marketing, and has had success in everything he’s done. He started his sales career working with the Dale Carnegie Courses in the early sixties and later worked with the Napoleon Hill Leadership Program. Andy has trained thousands of sales people during his career and started several companies.

He expanded a 60-minute dry cleaning franchise throughout the Southeast and Midwest. He developed a company that sold wireless communication franchises throughout the U.S. and then started a company to market credit card processing for merchants.

In 1999, Andy did research and discovered a need for GPS Tracking for fleet vehicles and GPS Tech was created. In 2006, Andy again saw a new opportunity – the need for a new way to deliver advertising to the masses and Ad Surf Daily, Inc. was born.

He modified his marketing strategies for the internet and attracted over 5,000 members in 120 days and sold over $1,200,000 in services. He now teaches his ASD members his strategies to help them build their internet businesses.

ASD has a physical office located in Quincy Florida, a state of the art online support ticketing system and real telephone support where customer service reps handle all support questions or inquiries.

One of the big perks with this program is they have an account with Bank of America where you can make direct deposits. They withstood a rigorous Verification Process (common sense will tell you Bank of America doesn’t do business with scams).

* Sustainable Payout Structure, NO guarantee of earnings in a set time.
* Daily Payouts fluctuate with daily sales – true Profit Sharing, NOT a Ponzi.
* Daily sales posted each day with your exact payout percentage.
* Zero Cost Membership.
* Structured like a REAL business with CEO, Executive Officers, Chief Administrator
* Full information on CEO, not some ‘anonymous’ admin

How is the company revenue distributed?

The ASD Cash Generator business plan pays 50% of all daily ad buys back to the advertisers, 15% in referral commissions (on two levels) and 25% for expenses and corporate profits.

By never paying out more than they take in, ASD will never encounter the cash-flow problems that have plagued other paid-to-surf programs. You’ll receive a variable percentage daily of that 50% revenue, for surfing 24 sites daily, until you reach 125% of your ad purchase (25% profit), and then you’ll re-cycle.

Members in the US are sent 1099s for any net profits (not advertising purchases) earned each year from ASD, but you can write off anything you purchase in advertising packages, and in turn, save money on your taxes!

Note: ASD Cash Generator is actually the 3rd get-paid-to-surf type program Andy has created. The first two programs were discontinued last year due to programming script problems. All the previous members had their balances transferred over to the new restructured ASD Cash Generator program or were refunded. ASD Cash Generator launched in July 2007.

Speak Spanish?

ASD also has a Spanish version of the English ASD website for those wishing to either view Spanish-based websites or know people who would like to earn money surfing a Spanish site. It’s set to be available for surfing and advertising in the beginning of February.

No sponsoring or recruiting is required, but for those that wish to refer others to ASD, they have a referral program that pays up to a 10% commission from the ad credits purchased that you personally refer, and up to a 5% commission from the ad credits of those referred by your direct referrals for a total of 15% total referral commission paid on 2 levels.

What’s the maximum number of Ad Packages I can purchase?

Twelve thousand (12000). Ad Packages are $1.00 each, so the maximum you can own at any one time is $12,000 USD. ASD requires that you have a product, service, program or opportunity that includes a web site to advertise in order to be an advertiser.

Note: If you don’t have a website to advertise, you can contact me for one to use.

3 Membership Levels: (Optional monthly subscription)

You can join ASD for FREE to advertise your site, or you can upgrade and advertise your business and earn cash-back rebates at the same time. The free membership will always be there and advertisers can get FREE advertising by viewing other web sites on the ASD Cash Generator Web Site.

An advertiser can pay a monthly membership fee and reduce cash out fees, increase referral commissions and decrease the number of sites to view on a daily basis. The amount of your monthly membership fee determines the number of times you can cash out each week, the amount of your referral commissions and the number of sites you must view each day to receive your rebates.

Monthly Memberships:

* $10 per mo. fee = Cashout on Mondays Only and 5% referral commission for 1st level and 3% on 2nd level,
* $25 per mo. fee = Cashout on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays and 7% referral commission for 1st level and 4% on 2nd level,
* $100 per mo. fee = Exec. VIP Plan, Cashout DAILY and 10% referral commission on 1st level and 5% on 2nd level.

Special Promotion through Tuesday, January 22, 2008.

If you purchase $500 – $999 in Ad Package purchases, you’ll receive 3 month Exec. VIP membership level upgrade. For $1,000- $1,999 in Ad Package purchases, you’ll receive 6 months Exec. VIP membership level, and for $2000 or more in Ad Package purchases, you’ll receive 1 year Exec. VIP membership level upgrade.

Do I have to pay a membership fee?

No. If you just want to be a passive member in ASD and receive cash back rebates from your ad purchases, you don’t need to pay a monthly membership fee. It’s primarily for people who choose to refer other advertisers or want to increase the frequency that they can withdraw their profits. If you don’t pay a membership fee and you decide to refer others (optional), you’ll be paid a 3% referral commission on all of your personal referrals only.

What payment processors are available?

Currently Alert Pay, Solid Trust Pay ,direct deposit into Bank of America account, cashier checks and mail in money order. Soon to come will be an International Debit card

What happens if I’m unable to view and rate websites on any given day?

If you miss a day and you’re unable to view and rate ads (for any reason) you don’t lose anything, it just freezes and extends the time line until you come back.

Personal opinion: From everything I’ve researched, Andy Bowdoin is a man of integrity who does what he says he’s going to do. He has a rock-solid business plan and experience based on verifiable and publicly available information. Everything is very transparent.

His business model is a win win for everyone and very lucrative for both passive and active members. Advertisers who simply want to be sure their website get seen, get exactly what they pay for.

Entrepreneurs who want a passive way of growing their money, get the ability of doing so for simply viewing ads daily. They get quality prospects visiting their websites which will ultimately turn into sign ups, sales, or more business partners.

You can get a 25% bonus on your advertising dollars spent for simply investing 10 minutes per day to view others sites. So if you purchase $1,000 in advertising from ASD, you’ll get paid daily until you receive $1,250 back. It doesn’t matter if you purchase an ad for $10 or $500… if you do nothing else but view ads, the results are the same and you’ll eventually earn 125% of what you spend (25% net profit).

If you look at their Alexa traffic ranking in the chart below, you’ll see that there’s tremendous momentum with this program right now.

Here’s how to sign up:

1. Click on this link: http://www.asdcashgenerator.com/?ref=20470, read the FAQ and Terms & Conditions, etc., then click on the link right under the top banner that says "Sign-up." To become an Upgraded (paid) advertiser, first click on Signup on the Home Page and become a Free Member.

2. When you join as a free member, you’ll be sent a welcome email. Some email carriers such as AOL, Bellsouth, Yahoo and others will treat our emails as spam. Check your Spam folder to see if it ended up there. If you didn’t get the email you may want to go to Google and get a free gmail account, otherwise you won’t be getting any emails from ASD because they’ll be blocked.

3. After you sign up, log in to your back office on the bottom left of the Home Page. Click Login and that will take you to your Account Overview Page. Look to the right of Account Level and you will see (upgrade level) in blue. Click on upgrade level and it’ll take you to your Upgrade Account Page. Select your payment processor and insert the dollar amount of ad packages you want to purchase. Ad packages are $1.00 each. If you want $100 of ad packages put 100 in the window. Click upgrade. Your purchase should show up on your Account Overview Page to the right of Current Upgrade Purchase. You can pay by credit card by calling the home office at 850-627-2206.

4. Once your account is funded and you’ve purchased your ad packages, click on the START SURFING link on the left hand side and do your viewing each day

I am apart of this program,and I love it. WHY? because I have made 30 times what I invested. Everything they promised has happened. The only people who call this a scam,do so while advertising there scam! Anyways decide for yourself,you’ve done the homework. Oh,and the customer service is top of the line,I’ve gotten ANDY on the phone within 24 hours,personally!! Do what you want, I am not going to miss this bus,because I personally believe everyone that has this opportunity and passes will regret it one day.Oh and be sure to wait for a promotion before you enter,like a 100% match!!!
you can reach me at buss362002@yahoo.com if yiu wanna continue this Q AND A further. DONT MISS THIS BUS!

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Mo. town outraged over killings, illegal immigrant
http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2009/03/20/ap/us/d971tl300.txt
By JIM SALTER
HANNIBAL, Mo. – A Hannibal police officer was finishing up mundane paperwork on a quiet Saturday morning when Manuel Cazares walked into the station, blood splattered on his hands and shoes.

Cazares put his hands out, crossed them, and told the officer to arrest him.

"I killed two people," he allegedly said.

Details surrounding the allegations are far too common: an abusive relationship, a jilted lover, a sudden attack.

But some in this Mississippi River community of 17,000 best known as Mark Twain’s hometown aren’t just outraged by the violence. They also question why Cazares was in Hannibal at all.

Cazares admitted after his arrest that he is an illegal immigrant from the Mexican state of Michoacan. The 32-year-old had several run-ins with law enforcement before the homicides, but officials had never questioned his legal status.

Now he is charged with two counts of second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the Feb. 28 deaths of his ex-girlfriend, 27-year-old Amanda Thomas, and 25-year-old Carl Patrick Epley.

"I don’t know how this happens," said Tina White-Masengill, Thomas’ sister. "My stepdad told police many times, ‘I don’t even think the guy’s a legal citizen.’"

During his three years in Hannibal, Cazares managed to avoid detection, despite a few traffic violations and a property damage conviction after an arrest for allegedly beating up Thomas and tearing up her home. Thomas had a restraining order against Cazares, who got probation in the property-damage case.

Police say his name wasn’t in a database maintained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Police and Cazares’ boss also say he had authentic-looking identification, including a Social Security card. And police noted that Cazares speaks fluent English.

Cazares’ attorney did not return phone messages seeking comment. Cazares is being held in lieu of $1 million bond.

Hannibal police declined several interview requests from The Associated Press, but said soon after the killing that they had received several angry calls, some with racial overtones.

Days after the killings, rocks were thrown through plate-glass windows at the Mexican restaurant where Cazares worked. The FBI decided against opening a hate-crime investigation after concluding that it was vandalism, not retaliation.

Hundreds of messages related to the case were posted on the Hannibal Courier-Post Web site, with several questioning why authorities hadn’t been able to determine Cazares’ legal status before. One suggested police should conduct raids to seek out other illegal immigrants.

"Of course we have folks who say that’s unconstitutional and racial profiling so we have to ignore the problem until this sort of terrible tragedy takes place," the posting read. The newspaper eventually took down the postings.

At a news conference, police Capt. James Hark told reporters that tracking illegal immigrants is a federal responsibility. He said the department is sympathetic to the victims’ families, "but, in retrospect, there’s nothing in the system that would have prevented this from happening."

ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok said the agency seeks to work closely with local police to uncover illegal immigrants.

"When local law enforcement suspect that they have arrested an illegal alien on criminal charges, we encourage them to forward those suspicions to ICE, where we will make the appropriate determination whether that person is in the country legally or illegally, and whether he is deportable," Rusnok said.

The relationship between Cazares and Thomas had long been rocky, with Thomas seeking restraining orders in 2007 and again early last year. Marion County prosecutor Tom Redington said the first order was dismissed when Thomas failed to appear at a court hearing; the second was dismissed at her request.

Thomas made a third attempt around Thanksgiving and obtained a restraining order that was supposed to keep Cazares away from the small brick duplex where she lived with their 20-month-old son and a 7-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.

Yet neighbors said they often saw Cazares in the area.

"We pulled up one night and he drives up the street with his car lights off and just sits there watching her house," said neighbor Charles Thomas, who is not related to the victim.

In early February, Thomas told police she thought Cazares was stalking her. White-Masengill said her sister played cell phone messages for police, including one in which he said, "No one can love you like I do."

Redington said he didn’t have Cazares arrested immediately because of the "on-again, off-again nature of their relationship." He asked Thomas to obtain records that would show that Cazares had been calling her, but she never got the records.

According to court records, Cazares offered the following a

This kind of thing happens fairly often in California. In fact, I live in the Napa Valley where we have a very large population of illegals picking the grapes. My town alone has a population of 40% Mexican and many of them are here illegally. One winery out of over 300 here will hire only legal Mexicans. The rest hire whoever they can get. So, trust me, I know and see exactly what your talking about. BTW, your question is a little long and the last sentence should be removed since it is incomplete.

How to use tracking links to measure click-throughs on tracking links from LinkTrack.info.

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