Using HitsLink to Plan a Better Affiliate Marketing Site

Writing by Brick Marketing on Friday, 18 of January , 2008 at 8:54 am

HitsLink, in case you are unaware, is a particularly useful website analysis tool. It is widely used by many website marketers, but can be just as useful in affiliate marketing, especially if you are worried that people are not finding their way to your affiliate pages.

HitsLink effectively maps the path that your website’s visitors take through your site. Along with giving you vital information about which pages of your site or sites are getting hit consistently and which are not. This information lead many people to redesign their sites.

• Eliminate dead-ends – By examining your HitsLink statistics you will be able to find if there are any pages on your site that cause people to switch off. You can interpret the results and determine the likely causes.
• Identify more successful web pages – Using HitsLink, you be able to identify the pages on your site that are most successful in terms of click through traffic and sales. Some pages are designed to be a final destination, whereas others are portals. HitsLink will let you know if they are performing as they should.
• Enable smoother surfing – Are your visitors taking a circuitous route to crucial pages? If so, you might want to consider remapping your site or perhaps adding a few extra links here or there. The data provided by HitsLink can help you to make an informed decision.

Affiliate pages tend to get less hits than other pages, however, if they are under-performing, there is a very good chance that there is something amiss in relation to website design. HitsLink can help you to identify these weaknesses and plan better affiliate marketing sites.

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