What's the bad news?
For affiliate links, we need a work around.
To optimize our affiliate conversions, you need a little trick.
Thrive Optimize can't track conversions when people land on the affiliate vendor, sorry.
So we can track in one of two ways.
1. Pretty Link, for clicks
2. Unique tracking codes via affiliate programs.
If you're using Shareasale, CJ.com, or other big networks, tracking is easy.
- Step 1: Create two tracking codes
- Step 2: Go to your "money page" (usually a product review).
- Step 3: Place link with tracking code 1 on the original page.
- Step 4: Create copy for A/B test via Thrive Optimize
- Step 5: Make changes to the duplicate page
- Step 6: Replace all affiliate links with tracking code 2
- Step 7: Start test
- Step 8: View clicks and sales on your affiliate panel to see which page converts better.
Not all affiliate panels will have good tracking options, though.
That's Ok
We can create the same effect using Pretty Link.
Instead of creating two tracking codes,
We create two pretty links. Ain't they pretty?
Each pretty link goes to the same spot.
Pretty Link will track the individual clicks of each link.
Remember, you're showing Pretty Link #1 50% of the time and traffic...
Then Pretty Link #2 the other 50% of the time and traffic.
After a few days, see which link gets the most clicks and traffic.
You won't be able to track sales this way, but you can track clicks and maybe conversion rates after you look at results as cash flow increases and at what rate.
Assuming that conversion rates remain the same on the vendors website, you can estimate that more clicks = more sales, roughly speaking. This works great with rotators.
PROTIP: ONLY TAKE ACTION ON SIGNIFICANT DATA
If you get 10 clicks on version 1 and 11 clicks on version 2, that's not significant.
It's 10%, which seems like a lot, but that "one click" might just be an accident... a fluke.
It might be due to an error.
I wouldn't make any big changes.
However, 200 clicks vs 220 clicks a big deal.
That's still 10%, but now you have a solid data set.
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