The Preneur A Place for Affiliate Marketers and Entrepreneurs

What is Tracking202?
Tracking202.com is a free online service for affiliate marketers that allows you to track your Pay-Per-Click campaigns. Tracking202 is a real-time Pay-Per-Click affiliate marketing tracking tool that you can use to optimize your Pay-Per-Click campaigns. You can use the information Tracking202 provides you with to see which of your keywords are converting into sales or leads, which text ads (ad copies) or landing pages convert the best and are making you money, and which referrers are performing the best.

There are usually common questions that arise from new users of the Tracking202 program. A more popular question would be whether or not Tracking202 staff members can see your keywords. Tracking202 provides an answer in their FAQ which states:

Yes, we potentially could because in order for T202 to work, we have to store your visitors’ data. However, we have an extremely strict keyword policy; we do not allow anyone in our company to look at people’s data at their leisure. We believe if you entrust us with your data, it is our job to keep it safe.

Feel free to check out the FAQ for other answers you may be seeking. Tracking202 is currently in the public beta stage as of February 2, 2008.

My Experience with Tracking202
I was fortunate enough to watch Tracking202 develop from literally nothing into a great program and tool for affiliate marketers within the last few months. Wes Mahler is the creator, affiliate marketer, and entrepreneur that introduced me to affiliate marketing. He is the mastermind behind this program and he created it not for the sole benefit for himself but to help other affiliate marketers like ourselves.

I will put it on my life that this tracking program is definitely worth a look. Don’t let the free title stray you away from trying out this high quality service. A lot of other tracking programs charge monthly fees up into the hundred dollar range and many of them do not have the features Tracking202 offers. Wes has allowed the users of Tracking202 make suggestions (you still can if you sign up), many of which have been implemented into Tracking202 already.

I have been using Tracking202 for just a little over 5 months now to track my campaigns and have not had a single problem. The only problems I have had are mistakes made by myself and Wes and Steven were always there to help me out every time. I think that it is great to be able to see the clicks generated from my campaigns in real-time. It only takes a few seconds to pull my subIDs from different affiliate networks and update my Tracking202 account.

Tracking202 Special Features

• Real Time Spy View of Your Visitors
• Ability to Grab Your EPC for Individual Keywords
• Ability to Grab Your EPC for Individual Text Ads (Ad Copies)
• Ability to Grab Your EPC for Individual Pay-Per-Click Accounts
• Semi-Automated Cost Tracking
• Support for Cloaking Keywords from Advertisers
• Support for Direct Linking
• Support for Landing Pages
• Much More…

Tracking202 Screenshots

Getting Started with Tracking202
It may be a little confusing for first time users, especially if you have not tracked campaigns before (like myself a few months ago). If you are one of those people Tracking202 has a videos section that shows you how to set up a campaign and implement Tracking202’s tracking URLs from start to finish. You can also feel free to ask questions in the comments below, contact me through the contact form, or contact Tracking202 staff members who are on live support.

Tracking202 Official Website: www.Tracking202.com

Flickr Photo By: mlindqvist

Just Getting Started?
New to affiliate marketing? Want to learn how to create a campaign from scratch? This is the place. As mentioned in the first post, A Place for Affiliate Marketers and Entrepreneurs, The Preneur was created to help others begin their journey into affiliate marketing. There are many things affiliate marketers must research, learn, and understand. For example, basic business concepts such as your return on investment also known as your ROI. As affiliate marketers we do not want to be spending more money or bidding more money on keywords and phrases that will give us a negative net return (net income). We want to generate more leads and sales to our landing pages or advertiser’s pages (direct linking) than we are spending money driving traffic to them.

There are many important aspects in the world of online affiliate marketing. Not only do you need to keep up-to-date on your research, but you also need to understand other business concepts such as marketing. Marketing is important because you will be promoting products, services, or both that other businesses are trying to sell. Creating a campaign can be difficult and if you do not word your ad copies correctly to entice a potential customer to click it you simply will not generate any leads or sales.

Interested? Then Take Action
The Preneur was created to help out beginning affiliate marketers. If you consider yourself a beginner who is interested in affiliate marketing and have not yet taken action to join in on the fun you have come to the right place. Feel free to use the contact form stating your interest in affiliate marketing. Once I feel that there are enough people interested to begin their journey into affiliate marketing I will contact you directly through email and set up a meeting time and date. The meetings will be held through either AOL/AIM or Skype, in which at that time we can all meet and introduce ourselves to each other. Each meeting will last about 1-2 hours so have your schedules cleared. The goal is to have at least one meeting a week until everyone in the group feels comfortable with each other and creating campaigns on their own. These meetings will have beginner affiliate marketers and entrepreneurs, which will provide everyone a great opportunity to network and get to know other people with like interests.

The Importance of Networking
As you can probably tell the whole aspect of this opportunity and experience is to create a network of hopefully, soon to be, ‘Super Affiliates’. Networking is an important aspect in any field of work. Through this network of our very own ‘Super Affiliates’ we will be able to collaborate amongst each other and become the leaders of tomorrow. We will become a group of affiliate marketers whose passion, knowledge, dedication, and willingness to help others will motivate other young aspiring entrepreneurs. We will gain the respect of other affiliate marketers and entrepreneurs and act as role models to those who wish to follow in our footsteps. Let the journey begin.