Site Clean Up

We have been cleaning up old unused/abandoned tracking links from canceled members. In the next few days we will begin cleaning up old ‘free’ memberships. If you are one of our grandfathered free members and still want to keep your account active, contact us via our HelpDesk right away.

In the next few days we will begin cleaning up old abandoned accounts and we don’t want your membership to get mixed up in the mix of abandoned accounts.

The Tracker Blog is here to help members with tracking related issues and news. Together we can get the most from Your Ad Tracker and other ad tracking resources.

We have made a lot of improvements lately. It makes sense to setup a central spot for members to stay up to date and informed about future updates and improvements. We’ll also help members get the most from their membership by offering helpful tips, advice and resources.

Here’s a handful of our recent site improvements:

• We have added the ‘editable‘ feature to the tracking links.
• We now have the exclusive Cloaking Switch
• Members can now organize trackers in groups
• We added a free 30 day trial to all new memberships
• Both domains are now run on an improved dedicated server
• And perhaps the biggest change was going to an All Paid – All Pro membership site.

I recommend you take advantage of our most recent improvements by subscribing to our two lists. Both lists are brand new, absolutely voluntary and highly recommended.

We hope this Blog helps more members understand ad tracking and improves our site’s effectiveness. It’s all about communication. We want to offer a clear path of communication with Your Ad Tracker members. It’s a two way street so feel free to comment on any topic or post.

Brian D. Hawkins

Pro Membership Only $20 A Year!

For this special weekend only, we are offering annual Pro Memberships for just $20/year (Save $29.95).
That’s an amazing 60% off!

The special offer will run from midnight, Friday, November 25th, 2011 Eastern Standard Time (-5 GMT) until 11:59PM EST Monday, November 28th, 2011.

• New members only.
• Free members should contact me for special payment link.
• New members register here: http://www.4u2bn.com/join.php.
• Annual memberships only. Monthly memberships remain $4.95/month.

Your Ad Tracker – Real time Ad Tracking combined with shortened URL

Pro membership have several features that free members don’t enjoy:

- IP and Date time detailed stats for all the hits for last 7 days.

- No Top Frames or banner advertisements.

- Organize your campaigns into groups.

- Turn exclusive cloaking on or off any tracker you want.

Both Free and Pro Memberships include:

- Track and shorten Unlimited URL’s.

- Edit your tracking link’s destination URL anytime.

Join Now

What’s this mean? It means our tracking links will continue to function fast and smooth and our sites will continue to load quickly.

All data was seamlessly transferred and all tracking links continued to function throughout the process.

To give our site a boost for the New Year I’m going to run a quick subscriber special for our banner advertising service. The first six orders will receive twice the impressions with each order. The banner impressions are shown throughout our membership area to active members. Our own tracking system tracks the stats. It’s a very inexpensive way to advertise.

For example, purchase 10,000 Banner Impressions for $20.00 USD and get another 10,000 Banner Impressions free. You can use these free banner impressions for the same campaign or choose a second product to promote.

This includes all YourAdTracker.com banner impressions. We have top and bottom banners ads. Top Position Banner Ads are $2 per CPM (1000 Impressions) and Bottom Position Banner Ads are $1 per 1000 Impressions. You can purchase up to 100,000 impressions.

How To Order:

Order the first set of impressions using the three step process at http://www.4u2bn.com/advertise.php Then repeat the first two steps for the free order skipping the PayPal button step. I will activate the ads from my end. It’s that simple!

• All banner images must be standard full size 468px × 60px images. Animated images are fine.
• No refunds please
• Membership to our ad tracking site is not required to advertise.

Any questions? Comment below or contact us through our HelpDesk.

Thanks, Brian

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A: I recommend you only cloak when necessary to protect an affiliate link. Cloaking can cause problems with certain scripts and it’s better to only use when necessary. See ‘Cloaked Tracker Fails On Affiliate Site‘.

If you are using an affiliate link and worry about the site visitor stripping off the affiliate portion of your link (affiliate thieves) I would then cloak the link. See ‘Affiliate Marketing Is A Waste Of Time Without This!‘.

I hope that helps, Brian

Related Posts:
Tracking Links and PayPal Buttons
(FAQ) Cloaked Tracker Fails On Affiliate Site
Caution: Cloaking Is Page Framing
(FAQ)Page Cloaking vs. Link Cloaking

If you want tech support or customer support and contact us through our HelpDesk then PLEASE use something other than a Comcast email. Otherwise you are wasting your time. I don’t like it, most membership sites don’t like it and anyone using a third party service doesn’t like it but that is just how it is. Comcast sucks, I don’t know how to be any clearer than that.

I have a member right now saying he can not log in but he’s using a Comcast email so he’s just wasting his time. He registered with a Comcast email, he paid with a Comcast email, he subscribed to the newsletter with a Comcast email and he will more than likely cancel his membership with his Comcast email. Personally, I don’t know why anyone would use an ISP email anyway. When you leave to get a better or cheaper service you will loose that email address. What sense does that make? I recommend Gmail.

That’s it, use Comcast if you like but don’t expect any support from us as we can not communicate. Thanks for reading, Brian

Protect Yourself Against Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Fraud

What is click fraud?

This is when clicks are created artificially. It can be done by robots or repeated self clicking. Other ways include the use of frames and software. As technology advances Pay Per Click (PPC) engines have become more adept at detecting click fraud. However the cheaters have also become more cunning and develop more new software and techniques to counteract the detection software. It is a constant war to cut down click fraud in PPC advertising.
There are several ways that people engage in this form of deception. This is why it is so hard for PPC engines to keep up with all the cheaters:

Network click fraud:

This is some of the most common and is done by syndication partners. These are smaller search engines and publishers who send false numbers which is click fraud to the parent PPC engine. The cheaters get paid but the advertisers lose out. These cheaters manage to send false information by means of robots and frames.

This activity results in worthless traffic, or simply no real visitors to the advertiser’s websites and sales pages. Click fraud like this is simply wasting or even stealing money from the advertiser. Surprising enough many advertisers are not aware of this or just choose to ignore it. This results in substandard advertising and is how PPC advertising gets a bad name.

Competitive click fraud:

is a serious problem for those companies that are competing in high paying brackets. Here we are talking about $10 per click and up. Here is how this click fraud works. If your competitor really wants to rack up bills for you, he just clicks on your ad and each $10 adds up rapidly. This form of deception is plainly unprofessional and malicious.

Impression click fraud:

This is an insidious attack on your PPC campaign in Google Adwords. It is based on the fact that keywords are ranked by Google according to the quality of traffic and activity on the links they attract. What is this click fraud? It works like this. A competitor will pause his campaign and sends a large amount of impressions with no clicks to competitor’s keywords. This type of deception will make all the keywords for the competing ads that are active become worthless, because Google will disable them. The competitor will then make a new active campaign and dominate the market.

Click fraud has created many pitfalls for the PPC advertiser, but there is a way to fight back. You can do this by carefully monitoring your PPC advertising campaign. When you keep a close watch on every aspect of your campaign you can stop cheating in its tracks.

With all these click fraud wars the advertiser finds himself stuck in between the 2 warring factions of thieves and PPC engines, but smart marketers know that they must take steps to protect themselves against click fraud. One way to do this is to track your ads, with a 3rd party ad tracker. When you do this you will know exactly what is happening to your ad.

Q: I am new at this and am trying to learn all of this on my own.

A: Hi Rose,

Our tracking service is very simple. Basically you setup a tracker for whatever link you want to track. This has nothing to do with any other sites or web pages, only the link taking you there. For example, I have an affiliate link with Elegant Themes. Here’s a short text ad I often use in email campaigns:

Unlimited access to great looking and expertly coded WordPress themes – Just $19.95/year! http://www.elegantthemes.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1041

So what I do is remove the actual affiliate link http://www.elegantthemes.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1041 and replace it with a tracking link that I have set up that will count the click and then redirect the person to my affiliate link. So now the add looks like this:

Unlimited access to great looking and expertly coded WordPress themes – Just $19.95/year! http://4u2bn.com/in05

You see, the person on the other end ultimately goes to the same website but by using our tracking links we know how many people actually clicked the link. The tracking link also looks better and is much shorter than most affiliate links. You can do the same thing for any site. One of my blogs, Extreme Ezine, can be accessed via the tracker http://4u2bn.com/a40. So if I was running a promotion I would use a tracking link such as http://4u2bn.com/a40 in place of the actual URL http://extremeezine.com/

You can also track banners by replacing the destination URL in the HTML with the appropriate tracking link.

<a href=”http://www.elegantthemes.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1041_0_1_3” target=”_blank”><img border=”0″ src=”http://www.elegantthemes.com/affiliates/banners/125×125-2.gif” width=”125″ height=”125″></a>

Now the code looks like this with the tracking link replacing the affiliate link:

<a href=”http://4u2bn.com/in05” target=”_blank”><img border=”0″ src=”http://www.elegantthemes.com/affiliates/banners/125×125-2.gif” width=”125″ height=”125″></a>

Basically, YourAdTracker will help you determine how many people are clinking the links in your promotions. It will not track traffic statistics on your website or blog. I’ll list a couple blog post links that should help you understand even more if you need it:

Our blog can help you with most issues. To learn how to use the trackers see:
http://blog.youradtracker.com/?page_id=78

All see our FAQ section:
http://blog.youradtracker.com/?cat=12

Tracking On My Own Domain
http://blog.youradtracker.com/?p=159

Different Trackers For One Site
http://blog.youradtracker.com/?p=105

I hope that helps,
Brian Hawkins

ps If you are new to making money online I have a recent post offering a little help at: The Truth Why You Are Not Making Money Online! http://blog.youradtracker.com/?p=195

The Policy:

• All reinstated* accounts must pay annually at the current rate of $49.95 year.
• No refunds
• No exceptions

The Why: First I would like to say I fully understand that today’s economy is even effecting online business and it can be tough to stay in the green for many. I completely understand when members need to cut costs and must cancel their memberships. I hate to see you go and thanks for giving us a try.

This new policy will effect members that allow their PayPal accounts to fall below their monthly fee and PayPal cancels the payment subscription due to inadequate funds. We are being inundated with members that lost their payment subscriptions and want it fixed. Assuming their account hasn’t been deleted from our site, we then have to create a special button, upload it online to help the member start a new subscription. Once we do this our script doesn’t associate the member with the account any longer and everything must be done by hand for the life of that account. Over half the members that request this action don’t even bother re-subscribing. Many others need this done almost every month. If this were a small matter I would let it go. Unfortunately it’s taking up a couple hours a day so I am being forced to make an unpopular decision. All accounts requiring reinstatement must pay annually at the current rate of $49.95 year. No refunds and no exceptions. Trying to manually update hundreds of accounts every month is simply too confusing.

The Solution: I have put this offer out there before. We are committed to helping our members succeed. If you fail online and cancel your service we fail. See My Personal Offer Of Help on our blog. Our Blog is loaded with tips and tricks to help you get the most from your membership. We also offer articles to help you make money online.

I also just published a lengthy article on our blog called, ‘The Truth Why You Are Not Making Money Online!‘

*If your membership has already been deleted you are welcome to sign-up for a new account. The deleted account, including the tracking links, are unrecoverable.