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How to Optimize an Affiliate Marketing Program for Profitability

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Bo Bennett once said, “Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.”. Of course, affiliate marketing has this mysterious aura about it. What Is Affiliate Marketing? Some people confuse affiliate marketing with referral marketing. You start with two affiliates: Kim and Jim.

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Multi-Channel Attribution Modeling: The Good, Bad and Ugly Models

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Even if, and this is not possible, I said to you that the path is Direct, Social, PPC, Organic, Referral for 5% of the site traffic … what would you do? So, the campaign could be Social, Organic Search, Email, Display, Affiliate, Referring Site … anything really. Notice above I only have two CPA values. You do too.

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Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner's Advanced Google Analytics Guide

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SEO & PPC, Because You Should! You'll see in an instant the very cool things you can track and analyze… With a little bit of smart tagging you can track your internal promotions ( buy one Make America Great Again hat and get one Stronger Together hat free! ), transactions with coupon codes, affiliate sales and more.

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UTM Parameters: A Complete Guide for Traffic Attribution

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If we can’t determine where the traffic comes from, we can neither attribute conversions to their original sources of traffic, nor can we find out the true cost per acquisition (CPA) or return on ad spend (ROAS) for each marketing activity. organic post on Facebook, tweet, video on a brand’s YouTube channel, affiliate link).

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