That's an old saying that refers to the modern day
80-20 rule: "80% of your efforts will be spent getting 20% of your
results".
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could reverse or switch
those percentages?
Sure it would! Especially when it comes to online advertising
and promotion, you'd save a ton of time.
If someone asked you right now, this very instant,
which of your banner ads pulls the best response or which ad headline/title
is your most effective, could you answer them immediately? Maybe.
If they asked EXACTLY what place that banner or headline
worked best, would you know?
If they asked PRECISELY what banner, what ad, what
title, what place and what day was your most productive and effective,
could you answer them?
Probably not. But you should be able to.
You spend countless hours registering your URL's with
the search engines, placing banners ads, managing your own ezine or
email list, posting to link lists, submitting classified ads, trying
different signature files in your emails, running message boards/forums
and placing ads in ezines, all in the name of attempting to increase
your site traffic. Yes, with all that effort, your traffic increases
over time, but wouldn't it be great if you could focus your efforts
on what worked best?
Yes, you can pour through "server logs" (if you have
access to them) for hours trying to decipher where and how visitors
got to your site or answered your ads, but it's time consuming and
frustrating.
You can even "code" your autoresponders, URL's and
email subject meesages, but those methods only answer a small portion
of the questions you need to answer if you want your efforts to be
as productive as possible.
I spoke and wrote to numerous people seeking solutions
and no one gave me specific answers or direction.
What To Do?
I hired a ROIbot. What's A ROIbot and what does it
do?
This is what ROIbot does:
First, you create a tracking code (myad1 as an example)
and give the system the URL you want the visitor to go to. ROIbot
then creates a custom URL just for you.
You then use that custom URL in your ad campaign(s).
Use a different tracking code for banner ads, FFA posts,
classifieds, signatures, literally everywhere you would use a URL,
everywhere.
Now you can track all the clicks and hits, referring
URL's and users browser type for every type of ad you are running.
You can check the stats for all your marketing efforts
in one easy place. No longer will you have to check your server logs,
trying to figure out the stats, then going to your affiliate programs
separately and checking those. If you are like most of us you don't
bother checking all the time like you know you should.
You can check to see which of your ads are pulling
and which are doing nothing for you. The more you continue to do what
works, and stop what doesn't, you will spend your marketing time much
more efficiently.
There are other benefits too, let's say you have a
free web site and you have posted it all over the Internet, and now
you want to move to another free service, or get your own domain.
You would just log into ROIbot, change the URL the program links to.
That's it.
Or how about this: you have been aggressively promoting
a new affiliate program everywhere and then the affiliate tells you
to link to them with a different URL. This has happened to me a dozen
times.
No sweat, just change the URL to the new one in ROIbot
and it all works fine, no lost traffic and no lost income. No down
time. Minimal effort.
Anyone who is serious about promoting their website
would be wise to use this phenomenal tool.
Remember: You'll get Better Results Pouring Gasoline
On A Fire Than Trying To Burn A Wet Log.