How to Use ClickBank TID to Track Your Promotional Efforts

ClickBank Tracking ID, a.k.a. ClickBank TID is a simple but incredibly powerful tracking feature to track your promotional efforts so you know what’s working for you and what’s not. The TID can be used widely to suit your needs, let me show some examples:

• If you’re an affiliate who pays for advertising, not understanding what’s not working and why can cost you a lot of wasted time and money.
• If you use free promotional methods, you’ll still waste a lot of valuable time if you don’t analyze your efforts and make improvements based on that analysis.

In this post I’ll show you several ways to analyze your efforts by using the Clickbank TID. Please note, this guide also can be implemented on other affiliate or CPA network. On other platform instead of ClickBank usually the TID is same with subid, sid, etc.

Analyze Your Efforts by Using ClickBank TID / ClickBank Tracking ID

Said I’m promoting a WordPress plugin called “WP Subscribers”, the hop link / affiliate link for that product is: http://zzzzz.wpsubscrib.hop.clickbank.net/ and the encrypted version of it is http://98984pi7hz9m7tcgxi240-3hp1.hop.clickbank.net/.

So how do I add tracking ID to the hop link? Simply by adding ?tid= at the end of URL plus your own tracking ID, then the hop link above will become:
http://98984pi7hz9m7tcgxi240-3hp1.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=blogpost. You can create your own tracking ID, examples: blogpost, banner300x250, tweet, fbstatus, sidebarlink, etc. I usually crate ClickBank TID based on the position of the URL and its traffic source. So that I know which is working and converting well and which is not. I can easily find the best method, for the best I’ll continue use and optimize for maximum result and for the methods that don’t work I’ll stop them.

Please visit ClickBank official site to learn more about ClickBank TID.

Smart Affiliate Links WordPress Plugin

Smart Affiliate Links features a unique approach to track and cloak your affiliate link, wherein you can cloak your affiliate links as well as track the clicks, views, traffic sources, other stats and track the TIDs.

You can generate the TID using Smart Affiliate Links WordPress plugin to become keyword or click ID, it’s up to you. Each click will give you a quick overview of the stats.

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Hopefully this article can benefit you so you now can track and analyze your marketing efforts. So that you know exactly which methods that work and which don’t. Eliminate the losers and keep as well as optimize the winners, is the main goal of tracking your campaigns.