hughdurkin
New Member
Hello all,
Just seeing if any affiliates would like to share their thoughts in relation to Tradedoubler and tracking of sales / leads etc.
On one site of mine in particular, I've been building out various channels (it's getting about 4-5k uniques per day, mostly Irish), and promoting various Tradedoubler merchants with text links in content etc.
I've trialled using display ads to drive clicks and sales, but the tests I did didn't go so well, so I reverted to using Google Adsense to backfill my display inventory.
I've also been using bit.ly to shorten Tradedoubler deep links, and push various offers on Social Media (Twitter and Facebook to be exact).
I just pulled a report for October 2010, and it looks like this (deliberately blacked out the merchant / site details):
View attachment 324
As you can see, for the amount of clicks I generated from one site and through social media, there is only one sale listed.
The conversion rate surely isn't as high as it should be, and with other affiliate networks I use, the rate of conversions to clicks is way higher than this.
I also pulled a report for a specific offer I posted out to twitter. I used a link that was emailed to me by TD with a tracking code in it, put it through bit.ly to shorten it, and sent it out via social media. What's below is for one merchant on one link on one day, but this has happened for other merchants on different days.
View attachment 325
As you can see, 36 clicks were tracked for the link, but no Unique Visitors were recorded. So TD is tracking the link being clicked, but not tracking each unique visitor (or one unique visitor).
Has anybody else had similar issues like this, and if so how have you resolved them? Maybe it's down to the deep link tool or the url format of the links, but I'm baffled by the lack of sales compared to other networks.
Any help from TD or other affiliates most appreciated!
Cheers,
H
Just seeing if any affiliates would like to share their thoughts in relation to Tradedoubler and tracking of sales / leads etc.
On one site of mine in particular, I've been building out various channels (it's getting about 4-5k uniques per day, mostly Irish), and promoting various Tradedoubler merchants with text links in content etc.
I've trialled using display ads to drive clicks and sales, but the tests I did didn't go so well, so I reverted to using Google Adsense to backfill my display inventory.
I've also been using bit.ly to shorten Tradedoubler deep links, and push various offers on Social Media (Twitter and Facebook to be exact).
I just pulled a report for October 2010, and it looks like this (deliberately blacked out the merchant / site details):
View attachment 324
As you can see, for the amount of clicks I generated from one site and through social media, there is only one sale listed.
The conversion rate surely isn't as high as it should be, and with other affiliate networks I use, the rate of conversions to clicks is way higher than this.
I also pulled a report for a specific offer I posted out to twitter. I used a link that was emailed to me by TD with a tracking code in it, put it through bit.ly to shorten it, and sent it out via social media. What's below is for one merchant on one link on one day, but this has happened for other merchants on different days.
View attachment 325
As you can see, 36 clicks were tracked for the link, but no Unique Visitors were recorded. So TD is tracking the link being clicked, but not tracking each unique visitor (or one unique visitor).
Has anybody else had similar issues like this, and if so how have you resolved them? Maybe it's down to the deep link tool or the url format of the links, but I'm baffled by the lack of sales compared to other networks.
Any help from TD or other affiliates most appreciated!
Cheers,
H