The Powerful Little GPS Tracking Device

The Powerful Little GPS Tracking Device

by: Joe Gooden

GPS is one of the newest crazes on the Market today. GPS or global positioning system tracks your locations from a satellite which makes it a popular feature in cars. When you’re on a trip it can also help you find your way around with out getting lost. While GPS tracking can help track your location it also works in another way. You can use GPS tracking to track some ones location.

Cell phones have become something that everyone now carries. Cell phones are becoming more and more technologically advanced with more and more features. One of the newest features on cell phones is GPS. GPS is now available in almost everything from cars to cell phones. Cell phone GPS tracking is the newest feature on many cell phones. Locating someone is a popular job for a lot of detectives and cell phone GPS tracking is one thing that can make this task a lot easier.

Taking advantage of cell phone GPS tracking can help with the location of someone if they should come up lost. Cell phone GPS tracking can track their exact location. This can make locating the lost much faster and more efficient.

Several different kinds of GPS tracking products are available at spyassociates.com. They also offer several different products to meet all of your surveillance needs such as cameras, night vision products, listening devices and many other kinds of products to help get the job done right and prove the case.

© 2005 Copyright www.spyassociates.com.

About The Author

Joe Gooden

To learn more about Spy and Surveillance Products visit http://www.spyassociates.com. Read other related articles at http://spyassociates.blogspot.com/.

This article was posted on September 08

by Joe Gooden

ClickBank Affiliate Woes: When Tracking Breaks Dow

ClickBank Affiliate Woes: When Tracking Breaks Down

by: Tim Coulter

Hardly a day goes by without a forum posting in which ClickBank is challenged about the reliability and integrity of its affiliate referral tracking mechanism the hoplink system. It cannot be denied that ClickBankกs technical infrastructures do not always inspire the greatest level of confidence. But this article sets out to demonstrate that a range of factors play a part in the integrity of affiliate tracking and any one of these can be the cause of those muchreviled commission losses.
Given the reliance of affiliate programs on cookie technology, it is important to understand the problems that may arise from this technology and what can be done to alleviate them.
The browser cookie is an essential ingredient in accurately and consistently allocating commission to the correct referring affiliate. If no referral cookie is present on a prospectกs computer when she makes a purchase, no affiliate will collect the commission. With ClickBankกs hoplink system (though not necessarily with other affiliate systems), this requirement holds true even if the prospect purchases immediately upon referral.
There are four reasons for missing cookies:
Deletion: Cookies can be deleted through a variety of computer maintenance operations. Some of these are explicit (e.g. instructing the browser to clear all its temporary files) and some are automatic (e.g. software utilities that perform routine, scheduled computer housekeeping).
Expiration: Each affiliate program implements its own policy determining the time period referral cookies will remain valid. Once a cookie reaches its expiration date, it ceases to have any effect on the allocation of affiliate commission. ClickBankกs affiliate tracking cookies are valid for 60 days.
Overflow: To comply with the recommendations of the Netscape Cookie Specification, a web browser needs to support the storage of at least 300 cookies. Beyond this level, the browser is free to delete cookies in order to reclaim disk space, on a firstinfirstout basis. In theory, this means that referral cookies may be prematurely deleted if a large influx of new cookies causes the limit to be exceeded. In practice, this issue is no cause for concern, as disk space is now abundant and most modern browsers do not implement such limits.
Rejection: If the prospectกs browser is configured to reject cookies, or uses filtering criteria that reject cookies from the affiliate programกs domain, a referral cookie will never be created for that user.
Little can be done by affiliates to directly protect against cookie deletion or expiration. Therefore, affiliates should be aware of the issue when selecting products, giving preference to products most likely to generate a prompt purchase. Any product that requires an extensive period of reflection prior to purchase represents an increased risk of commission losses to the affiliate.
Cookie rejection is also a serious issue for affiliates. The current versions of all major browsers are installed with cookies enabled, so it takes a conscious effort on the part of the user to disable support for cookies. However, inaccurate media coverage of cookies has increased the number of web consumers who do systematically reject them.
Fortunately, following a series of recent change to the ClickBank hoplink system, a referral will now only take place if the client computer accepts the ClickBank tracking cookie. This is great comfort to ClickBank affiliates, who can no longer be deprived of their commission because of cookie rejection. Merchants, in contrast, may not be so happy that willing prospects are being turned away because of an errant configuration in their computer.
ClickBank faces a difficult balancing act in attempting to implement systems that are fair to both the merchant and the affiliate. And whilst the companyกs technology may not always be perfect, it is reassuring to note that not every forum scare story is founded on fact.

About The Author

Copyright © Tim Coulter. All rights reserved.
Tim Coulter is a consultant and software developer who helps netpreneurs to harness marketing technologies.
He is also the author of กClickBank The Definitive Guideก The Ultimate ClickBank Tutorial & Reference Manual.

http://www.clickbankrevealed.com/

This article was posted on June 29, 2004

by Tim Coulter

Tracking Your Ads…A Free Alternative

Tracking Your Ads…A Free Alternative

by: Laura Kneiss

You don’t have to spend money to track your ads effectively. There is a free alternative that I have found to be very successful.

If you are working on the Internet, but don’t have a lot of extra funds available, you can save some money by using a free adtracker instead of paying to download one or even paying a monthly fee like some services require.

One free ad tracking option is BusinessWorldList.com

The site is actually a safelist that you can subscribe to. Once you subscribe, you have access to the member’s area. From there, you can click on the tracking link and it will allow you to enter two different urls that you want to track.

The great thing about BusinessWorldList is that you don’t need to have your own website. If you are a member of an affiliate program, you can enter your affiliate url. It will automatically create a new link for you to use. For example, the url that I wanted to track was: http://www.workinathome.50megs.com and it created this tracking link: http://businessworldlist.com/cgibin/ads.cgi/workinathome_1000 This is the link that I would now use when promoting my site.

One problem that I have found, however, is that the tracking link is rather lengthy, so I like to use a service like tinyurl.com. With tinyurl you simply enter the long url and it will create it into something shorter. For example, I entered my businessworldlist tracking link : http://businessworldlist.com/cgibin/ads.cgi/workinathome_1000 and it shortened it to: http://tinyurl.com/lyue

The good thing about using tinyurl to shorten your businessworldlist tracking link is that your original url will show up in the browser. In my case, the browser will show my original website: http://www.workinathome.50megs.com.

No one will know that you are using an ad tracker to track your ads, and it elimates the problem of a long and hard to remember url.

BusinessWorldList is a great tool because it shows the websites where your visitors are coming from, not just the number of clicks your site receives.

It also shows other pertinent information such as: the browser the referrer used, their operating system, and their IP address. In addition, you can also see the number of unique clicks your site receives. This has helped me to get a better idea of how many unique visitors I get a day versus the total number of hits to my site.

Whether you are just starting out, or if you have years of experience working on the Internet, a free ad tracker is a great alternative that can help you effectively track your ads and increase your success.

About The Author

Author Laura Kneiss has established a career on the Internet working for an honest and reliable company. You can learn more about this company at: http://tinyurl.com/lyue

This article was posted on September 19, 2003

by Laura Kneiss

Online Testing Optimization

Online Testing Optimization

by: Michel Richer

Simply put, online testing involves keying each different test variable with a unique identifying code (so each desired response can be tracked to its source), running the test campaign, keeping records, and tabulating and comparing the results. The winning variable then becomes the control, or bench mark, which future ones are measured against. Letกs look at testing in more detail…

The technical testing involves the following steps:

1) Try to determine with ads works best.

2) Creating the test ad(s).(test one at a time)

3) Keying each ad with a unique tracking code.

4) Take accurate test records.

5) Running the campaign.

6) Tracking and comparing results to determine which test variable is the winner.

7) Keep testing to constantly beat your existing control.

Keying ads and tracking responses online can be done in a variety of ways. For accuracy, be sure to use a unique tracking code for each different test variable and keep accurate records. The tracking method used will vary based on your circumstances and the type of response you want. Tracking Web Page Hits Another important thing to do is to track your web page hits.

You wanna know what page pulls the most hits. Where the people come from. What browser, OS, and screen resolution are important. If your web site display best in 1024×860 and and 90% use 800×640 it might look messy.

Improve your testing

Your main objective in testing is always to try to come up with a better pulling variable (headline, offer, guarantee, price, etc.) than your existing control. Whenever tests prove that another variable pulls better than your existing control, it replaces it until a future test reveals an even better one.

Make Testing a second nature.

Instead of viewing the testing process as too much bother, you should view it as a wise investment in crucial information that reveals how to progressively improve the profitability of your marketing. Considering all the advantages that testing offers, the reasons for making it a habit are obvious. You don’t have to be content with the same mediocre level of response to your marketing campaigns, unaware of whatกs really working and what isn’t. If you aren’t already, start taking advantage of scientific testing to constantly improve your marketing results, avoid making the same wasteful mistakes, and earn more profits. And if you’re already profiting from it, consider taking advantage of it more fully.

Copyright © Michel Richer

PERMISSIONS TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in its entirety free of charge, electronically or in print, provided it appears with the included copyright and author’s resource box with live website link.

About The Author

Michel Richer is the Business Manager and Webmaster of Hombyz.com. He is dedicated to helping you succeed on the Internet. With over 10 years experience in internet business and a solid reputation in the industry. You can take a look at his website at: http://hombyz.com

This article was posted on February 17, 2004

by Michel Richer

Shooting A Flying Pigeon In A Dark Room

Shooting A Flying Pigeon In A Dark Room

by: Jane Fulton/Smart

Are you trying to shoot a flying pigeon in a dark room, when it comes to advertising? It would be a lot easier to do if you were using a bright spotlight.

Using a bright spotlight would mean:

Targeted Ads.

Who would you think would be more likely to buy your product..your target market or just anybody?

ExYou are selling a romance book. Who would you think would be more likely to buy your romantic book? If you ran an ad in a marketing newsletter, you might find 3 or 4 people that wanted your book, but why settle for peanuts when you can have the whole elephant? If you ran the ad in a womanกs newsletter, you would get a better response. Who would be more interested in a romance book than women? If you could find a newsletter that was targeted to women who read romance books, thatกs even better or a newsletter that did reviews on romance books.. You get the idea, Iกm sure.

Summary: Run your ad to a market that is interested in Your niche product.

Track Your Ads

You need some important answers that only tracking can give you:

1Is my ad a good ad?

Write 5 different ads for your product. Get your friends and family to read the 5 ads. Don’t tell them they are your ads. Tell them a friend asked your opinion about the ads. That way, you will get their honest opinion. Discuss the ads with them. Ask them what they think would make them buy the product, if they saw the ad in a classified section.

2Now that we are sure we have some good ads, we need to make sure that our ad is being read. Is the readers of a newsletter responsive?

To test this, I would run an ad in a newsletter 5 times. Why? Letกs all be honest. How many times have you had a deadline to meet, been working on a great product and haven’t had time to read a newsletter that you are subscribed to? Maybe you deleted it, maybe you saved it to read later but important things just kept coming up and you never got around to it? This happens sometime. Just like s__t happens. Thatกs why running an ad just once is not a fair test.

Summary: You need to run your ad more than once to get a true test.

3Which newsletter did the ad or click through come from?

To find this out, you need a different tracking url for each ad and keep track of which newsletter you put each unique url in. Most tracking scripts will do this for you. We have one at Three Dollar Ads that will do just that. You can see it here:

http://threedollarads.com/linkexpire/signup.php

Letกs say you place an ad in newsletter X and another one in newsletter Z. You use a different tracking url for each {even if itกs the same ad}. When you check your stats, you find that you had 2 click throughs from newsletter X, but you had 10 click throughs from newsletter Z. I bet you can guess which newsletter gave you the best results?

Summary: Use a unique tracking url for every ad you run to track itกs total performance.

4Will people buy from your affiliate link or will they change it to theirs {if they are an affiliate for that program EXClickbank} or bypass the affiliate link all together and just go through the company?

The best way to make sure this doesn’t happen is to cloak your affiliate link. The tracker we have setup at Three Dollar Ads will do both. It will track you ads, give you stats and cloak your affiliate link all at once:

http://threedollarads.com/linkexpire/signup.php

That way, you don’t have to worry about anyone stealing your affiliate commissions. That should take a load off your mind!

Summary:Cloak your affiliate links to keep from losing your commissions.

If you pay money to run ads, why not get your moneys worth? Find out for yourself what works and what doesn’t.

Stop trying to shoot a flying pigeon in a dark room! Turn on your bright spotlight. You just might be able to hit your mark!

About The Author

Jane Fulton is coowner of Three Dollar Ads with Jude Wright. They are working hard to find new ways to help you with your advertising needs. Check out the site today right here:

http://threedollarads.com

This article was posted on April 19

by Jane Fulton/Smart

How Many Sales Have You Made After Your Advertisin

How Many Sales Have You Made After Your Advertising Campaign?

by: Radhika Venkata

When you start your online business, you will go through a series of steps like:

==>Domain registration

==>Website designing and installing your inventory and order links

==>Advertising about your products or service

Regarding advertising, you should always target your audience.When you are selling garden tools in Miami, you will get better results with offline advertising and Joint Ventures with other websites that are focused on Gardening and pointing to Miami area.

After Advertising, one important step is ‘tESTINGก your advertising campaign.

Why?

Look at this example.You spent $50 on keeping an ad on some famous site or a email campaign.Letกs say this is one time ad.

If you don’t know how many people clicked on your URL or how many people bought your product coming through that link, how are you going to spend another $50 on the same advertising method?

Rather than Click thrus you can go one step further and calculate the number of sales per one advertising method.

Here are few methods you can use to track your results.

**1.Email Tracking:

If you have ezine and you are keeping your subscription email links in different places like other ezines, websites and ebooks, you can give a little code to your email address.

Like this

[email protected]?subject=ezine

[email protected]?subject=ebook

First one in ezines and second one in your ebook.That little code goes in to subject area of emails.

By seeing your emails you can know from where you are getting more response.

**2.URL Tracking:

There are different ways to track your URLs.

You can keep your URL with a little code similar to emails.

www.yourdomain.com/product.html?source=ebook

You can also upload a different page for your each ad campaign.See the example below.

You have a page like www.yourdomain.com/product.html

Then you can upoload the same page with different URL like www.yourdomain.com/prod.html

So the visitors that comes to that page can be seen in your weblogs.If you have a good logging software you can save all the visitors information for that particular page.Check this weblogger

http://www.logitpro.com/

http://perlonline.com/

This weblogger tells you exactly how many hits are taking by one webpage and referers.

So you can see how many hits are coming to your ก/prod.htmlก page and referers.

**3.Click Tracking Software:

Click tracking script is a cgi script that gives you information about a click. The click may be on your website, emails, ezines, banners or anything.

If the click tracking script tells you the number of clicks it is not going to be useful to you. Because you can’t differentiate the people buying through your campaign links or your regular links.

So what a Click tracking script should tell you?

1. Tell the number of clicks to tell the click thru ratio:

By this you can optimize your ads. If a specified ad get low click thrus you can change the optimize it.

2. Tell the ip address of the visitor.

By this you can know which ad bringing you the sales. If a particular ip clicking on a specific link buys your product you can know that ad campaignกs ROI.

3. Tells the geographical distribution of the clicks.

This is useful when you want to know how many clicks coming from different countries. Like if you see กjpก with ip address, you can know the visitor from Japan. But this is not possible in all cases.

http://www.scripts4webmasters.com/clicktracking/index.shtml

This is a FREE Click tracking script that gives you all needed information. It comes with easy admin panel.

IMPORTANT TIPS IN TESTING YOUR ADs:

==>If you think your URL is กAliveก, don’t delete that page on your server.

If you keep an ad in your ezine articles and submit to other ezines, your articles will be spread all over the net after a while.If you delete that URL on your server people will get ก404 page not foundก error and you will lose your potential visitor.

==>In email campaigns consider short URLs.Long URLs will break up in to two lines and the reader can not click on it to get your desired page.

==>Test ONE VARIABLE at a time.Suppose you want to check the response and sales rate for two different types of sales letter and by giving free gifts with your product. Don’t test both at once. First check the sales page variable.If you don’t get good response then go to free gifts variable.

If you get good response to one of the sales pages, then use the free gifts method in different advertising campaign.

Good luck!!

About The Author

Radhika Venkata Subscribe to กEbookBiz Magazineก which is completely focused on ebook business and Internet Marketing. Receive FREE Ebooks with Resale rights every month!

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This article was posted on November 14, 2003

by Radhika Venkata

Track With Your GPS Vehicle Tracker

Track With Your GPS Vehicle Tracker

by: Joe Gooden

GPS is one of the newest crazes on the Market today. GPS is now available in almost everything. GPS tracks your locations from a satellite which makes it a popular feature in cars when on a trip, to help you find your way around without getting lost.

While GPS tracking can help track your location it also works the other ways. You can use GPS tracking to track someone’s location without them knowing. GPS tracking is used this way in theft deterrent system to help people recover their stolen vehicles. GPS tracking is also a new tool used to track a vehicle when someone is just driving their own car.

Why you may want to consider the use for GPS tracking is to track a non stolen vehicle but keep track of the driver. Especially if it is suspected that the driver is up to something unauthorized. GPS tracking can locate where the car is going with out tailing them or running the risk of being caught. GPS tracking devices are available in many different kinds of product at every price level to get the job done. The #1 GPS Vehicle Tracker in the market today is the Spy Matrix GPS. This GPS tracking device is small enough to be undetectable when planted on a car, person, or package. Several different kinds of GPS tracking products are available at spyassociates.com. They also offer several different products to meet all of your surveillance needs such as cameras, night vision products, listening devices and many other kinds of products to help get the job done right and prove the case.

© 2005 Copyright www.spyassociates.com.

About The Author

Joe Gooden

To learn more about Spy and Surveillance Products visit http://www.spyassociates.com. Read other related articles at http://spyassociates.blogspot.com/.

This article was posted on September 08

by Joe Gooden