Chapter 9: Tracking Tools
Tools help you make the best of your time and effort when it comes to
marketing. We will look at the tools to help you make full use of your time,
efficiently market your site and promote, your affiliations online. Most tools
listed here give you a free version (with limited capabilities) or a trial version
before requiring you to purchase the full license to use.
If you feel like this tool has met your needs, then sign up for a full package.
● Flippa
This essential tool can help you get into the process of building a sustainable
and successful affiliate site from scratch. This site is created as a bidding
marketplace for people to buy and sell websites. For affiliate marketers
especially, you get to buy sites that already come with strong backlinks and
an optimized SEO growth. Keep in mind that you need to conduct a full
backlink audit before you purchase a domain from Flippa to ensure that the
domain isn’t inflated by unethical SEO practices.
● CJ Affiliate
Affiliate marketing begins with a strong partnerships with sites that are in
need of sales. CJ Affiliates is a number one resource for affiliate partnerships
as it connects affiliates with merchants wanting to drive up sales for their
products. Affiliates get paid for each phone call, or lead, or website when
visitors peruse a merchant’s site from the affiliate links discovered. CJ
Affiliate is a great starting point if you want to seek partnerships.
● SEMRush
If you are looking for keyword research, competition analysis and even fixing
SEO errors then SEMRush is a tool needed in your affiliate marketing
arsenal. This tool is a favorite among marketers who want to understand what
kind or type of content drives the highest ROI for their competitors as well as
analyze on-page SEO issues. What’s more, you can use SEMRush to monitor
press mentions.
● Ahrefs
Ahrefs is another keyword research tool that you can use just like SEMRush.
