Cool Tool of the Week

Affiliate Marketing

A quick post update today but I wanted to post this before I forgot because it’s that important.Moms Business Coach, you know that I’m really a stat person- I love checking out what people are clicking, searching, following. I have a plugin that I love to use for tracking links and clicks from my WordPress dashboard.

Well, I just found the bookmark and thought I would post it here, after all it’s free, if you can install it and use it, I hope you will.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gocodes/

It’s called GoCodes. The theory is simple- it’s like Tinyurl or my favorite budurl.com (allows you track all your shortened urls at budurl.com) but gocodes resides right in your WordPress dashboard, you create your links with a few clicks and you can actually insert them easily while you are writing your blog post.

Here is the key benefit- we all know that once you write a blog post it lives in the virtual world, forever.. yes, this is how people earn residual income… those links are live and you never know where they will show up.

So think now about a couple scenarios:

  • 1. You are sending good traffic to that link but the affiliate program isn’t converting
  • 2. You find the same product or similar product that pays a higher commission
  • 3. The product is no longer available and you want to replace it.

If you are like me, you posted those links everywhere, your blogs, websites, social networks, article directories, squidoo…you get the point.. you now need to go back and trace all those links if you can and replace them one by one.

Here is the BIG benefit- if you use the GoCodes plugin you create the shortened URL then you can replace it anytime with a new destination URL.

For example, just a few week ago, I was telling everyone to come join me at Perry’s new Video Intensive Course and I created the url to use to promote it

http://moms-business-coach.com/recommends/askmrvideo

Well, that class is now over, but I still highly recommend people look at all the other video resources Perry offers so I just went into my dashboard, removed the URL of his Video Intensive sales page and replaced it with his home page that offers both his membership option and a ton of free video articles.

Boom, one change and I’m done- I don’t need to go track and change 35 links around the web, it’s done automatically!

Remember, it also tracks the clicks! You can see where people are clicking what links and for what tools, resources or products get the most interest!

So there you have it, one quick and easy change you can add to your blog for free to get more for your efforts!

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2 Responses to “Cool Tool of the Week”

  1. Rae Lynn Says:
    January 12th, 2009 at 12:25 am

    Hey, quick question for ya Kristen…
    How do you keep track of all these tools and links, etc? I know you have a huge “dashboard” per se, but aside of that, do you keep an excel spreadsheet, do you bookmark? How do you track everything that you link, post, join, etc…..you must have a spreadsheet or something?
    raelynn

  2. Kristen Says:
    January 13th, 2009 at 2:42 am

    Ha, that’s a million dollar question! I post some of them here so when I can’t find them I can search my own blog! I also have three spiral notebooks that I have stuffed with resources, tools and sites that I come across.

    If it’s a good enough tool I generally use it more often or add it to my Firefox browser if applicable.

    I also keep folders on different topics- Article Marketing, SEO, Social Networks, Twitter, Conversions, Memberships.. and as I find info that I think is worth keeping I’ll add it to the appropriate folder but then again that’s me being an online marketing junkie :)

    Find the tools that add value to your bottom line or make your job easier/faster/more effective and forget the rest until you need it!


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