What's The Best Way To Track Affiliate Links?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2014

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Today's question comes from Elias, who wants to know about affiliate link tracking. It's an important question that deserves more attention than it usually gets. Do you have a question about best practices for affiliate sales? Go to http://www.askpat.com/ and record your question. You can find Elias's site at http://www.basketballismypassion.com/. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath. AskPat.com.
0:10.6	Hey, what's up everybody? This is Pat Flynn. Welcome to episode 42 of Ask Pat.
0:15.0	I'm here to help you in your online business by answering your questions five days a week.
0:19.6	And today I have a resource to share with you, which is a WordPress plugin that I use every
0:23.1	single day.
0:23.8	It has helped me make a lot of money.
0:26.0	And it's because it makes your long links, the long, super crazy links.
0:30.5	And it turns them it's a really nice pretty links.
0:32.5	And that's actually the name of that WordPress plugin.
0:35.2	It's called Pretty Links.
0:36.4	And it's free.
0:36.9	There's a light version.
0:37.6	There's also a pro version with some other, with some other features.
0:41.7	And all you do is put any, you know, for example, if you were to put an affiliate link that has a bunch of numbers and code at the end, you could make it really simple.
0:48.5	For example, my Bluehost for hosting and domains, my affiliate link is really long, but I shorten it down. So it's Askpat.com slash Bluehost for hosting and domains, my affiliate link is really long, but I shorten it down so it's
0:56.2	Askpat.com slash Bluehost. You can do that with any links. It doesn't have to be affiliate links,
1:01.4	but I want to talk about affiliate links today because that's exactly what Elias's question is about.
1:05.5	So let's head on over to Elias and see what he has to say.
1:09.0	Good day, Pat. This is Elias from the basketball is my passion blog.
1:13.2	I use related affiliate marketing in my blog.
1:16.3	What is the best way to track the behavior of the text links and banners,
1:21.2	especially when they are so many within the blog posts and pages?
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