The Uses of the Ad Tracking Tools

Published: 25th March 2008
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If you want to get your products publicized over internet you can not do without ad tracking program. In addition of providing several basic information about each hit like : users IP address, browser type, operating system, date and time of click and referring URL, the advanced features of ad tracking system help you carry out different other actions. Here is a brief discussion on these advanced features to help you select the particular program that serve your specific purposes.

The most important task that your ad tracking tool performs is it keeps record of all the 'actions' of your visitor including the purchase or downloading some materials.

If you are not satisfied with this much job of your tracker, then you can consider advanced quality tracking tools that can monitor your visitor's movements all through your web site. More advanced trackers can even track the visitor's movements after he signs out from your site.

At certain stage of your business you have to run several ad campaigns simultaneously.

In that case you will need a summarized report of the trends of all the campaigns. Otherwise evaluating them separately may become too complex a task. You have to take into consideration the reports of all the campaigns including the current ones, those which have expired as well as those which are scheduled to appear.

Do you run sub campaigns? That means you have to provide a different URL for every advertising source. But the cutting edge ad tracker tools also make automatic checking of your links possible. Thus you will need to create only one tracking URL, even if you have several different sub- campaigns.

Another important function of ad tracking tool relates to the task of Report Presentation. When you are connected to internet, the tracking tool will allow you to examine stats. Now different tools generate different kinds of report that differ in volume and in details. There are tools that will let you know about the total number of clicks for an assigned period. Then you will find the tools that may indicate to the advertisements that attract utmost traffic. If it is an action tracking tool, then it will help you also to track such actions of your visitors as purchase, subscription, downloads and so on. You can even find the tools that will alert you about the stats on a daily basis. If you are still not satisfied, you can consider exporting of report stats over a spreadsheet file.


If you offer an affiliate program as the part of your campaign, the ad tracker also helps you to find out the referrals and sales leads and that help you to evaluate the performances of different affiliates. Suppose, an affiliate has changed his links making your existing ads on their sites invalid. But a tracking URL will help you to simply modify the affiliate URL at the tracking control centre. On the other hand, if you want to discontinue with a particular affiliate, you just direct the tracking URL to a new page and from there you take the visitor to your other campaigns. It will also help you to prevent link piracy.
So you Have learnt about the basic uses of ad tracking tools, now use them to the best advantage to cut the maximum e-revenue.

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