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Sourcing traffic sources and landers that are working. (24)

12-10-2011 04:29 AM #1 Smaxor (Veteran Member)
Sourcing traffic sources and landers that are working.

As a network owner we get asked for landing pages quite a bit. But guess what we don't give out creative other then what's in the system. Both for legal reasons and because we don't want the legal issues attached to giving out and building creative.

With that said one great place to look is Alexa clickstream.

What's Alexa clickstream you ask?

This is the paths in and out of a domain based on people with alexa toolbars installed. So it's safe to say that it's not going to be accurate data, but it will be helpful.

Go to Alexa put in some offer domain you're looking for. Then it should spit out where most of the traffic is coming from on the site. Then also where the traffic is going to after visiting the site.

Where might traffic be before they go to a site?

Site someone sending traffic is buying on?
Ad network?
Lander?


Just a couple ideas, I'll let you run with it.

P.S. As always anything you find and want to run make sure you get reviewed by competent legal counsel to make sure it's compliant. Now go make some loot.

12-10-2011 11:46 AM #2 bbrock32 (Administrator)

Nice tip Jason.

I do that all the time on Alexa.

Also you can use Alexa to uncover traffic sources for intl countries by looking at the ads showing on the most trafficked sites for that country.

12-10-2011 04:47 PM #3 sm1810 (Member)

^ Good suggestion... Using WRT?

12-10-2011 04:56 PM #4 bbrock32 (Administrator)

What's WRT?

12-10-2011 05:02 PM #5 nusolutionz (Veteran Member)

i guess he means WRW :-) but with the mothod abouve it's not necessarily needed

12-10-2011 05:18 PM #6 dantheman (Member)

Alexa FTW.

I use it too.

I know there are scripts out there to protect your referrer's if you're an affiliate with a LP so people can't find out your traffic source or steal your LP.

12-10-2011 05:35 PM #7 stackman (Administrator)

You've just shared a very valuable tip, clickstream is quite handy

12-11-2011 06:44 AM #8 minh1204 (Member)

how do you get landers? when i do clickstream for an offer, I only get the root domain names / tracker url, but no landers. more tips?

12-11-2011 02:45 PM #9 nusolutionz (Veteran Member)

Quote Originally Posted by minh1204 View Post
how do you get landers? when i do clickstream for an offer, I only get the root domain names / tracker url, but no landers. more tips?
if you have the tracker url look at the clickstream to see the lp's

12-11-2011 03:30 PM #10 nusolutionz (Veteran Member)

is there any way to forbid the alexa bots so they can't crawl your lp/tracking url?

12-11-2011 05:32 PM #11 jq_q (Member)

Any idea where you can get these scripts or more specifics on them?

Quote Originally Posted by dantheman View Post
Alexa FTW.

I use it too.

I know there are scripts out there to protect your referrer's if you're an affiliate with a LP so people can't find out your traffic source or steal your LP.

12-11-2011 06:45 PM #12 sm1810 (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by nusolutionz View Post
if you have the tracker url look at the clickstream to see the lp's
Maybe I'm not reading this right when u say tracker URaL u mean the offer URL from network?

12-11-2011 06:59 PM #13 nusolutionz (Veteran Member)

Quote Originally Posted by sm1810 View Post
Maybe I'm not reading this right when u say tracker URaL u mean the offer URL from network?

no i mean the prosper202 url..sometimes you'll find prosper202/tracking urls if you look at the clickstream of an offer...you can then look at the clickstream of the prosper url and find the lp's from that affiliate..

i can't show you an example because i don't want to out other affiliates lp's but if you look at the clickstream of some huge rebill offer websites for example you'll see what i mean

12-11-2011 10:12 PM #14 nitroman (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by nusolutionz View Post
no i mean the prosper202 url..sometimes you'll find prosper202/tracking urls if you look at the clickstream of an offer...you can then look at the clickstream of the prosper url and find the lp's from that affiliate..

i can't show you an example because i don't want to out other affiliates lp's but if you look at the clickstream of some huge rebill offer websites for example you'll see what i mean
I spoke to Alexa about removing all of my tracking domains from Alexa but they won't do it. I'd be interested in hearing another solution.

12-11-2011 10:13 PM #15 sm1810 (Member)

^ I thought they only collect data from their toolbar.... :/

12-11-2011 10:18 PM #16 Smaxor (Veteran Member)

Quote Originally Posted by sm1810 View Post
^ I thought they only collect data from their toolbar.... :/
Right and users have the toolbar installed and go to his site.

12-11-2011 10:19 PM #17 phoenix (Member)

you can not 'block' alexa, but there are ways to 'contaminate' their data so that when someone looks at your site. what they see in alexa and what you are actually doing is far apart. 1 FREE tip. look at subdomains and how they get ranked by alexa vs main domain.

darkwingduck

12-12-2011 03:03 PM #18 nusolutionz (Veteran Member)

Quote Originally Posted by phoenix View Post
you can not 'block' alexa, but there are ways to 'contaminate' their data so that when someone looks at your site. what they see in alexa and what you are actually doing is far apart. 1 FREE tip. look at subdomains and how they get ranked by alexa vs main domain.

darkwingduck

thanks for the tip..works with subfolders too

12-12-2011 03:32 PM #19 julien (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by nusolutionz View Post
is there any way to forbid the alexa bots so they can't crawl your lp/tracking url?
You can try to add the following lines on your robots.txt:

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

But most of the times, spiders crawl what they want

12-14-2011 05:07 PM #20 krueger (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by nusolutionz View Post
thanks for the tip..works with subfolders too
Yep, just don't forget to disallow everything on robots.txt

12-22-2011 02:00 AM #21 timjim (Member)

Do I have to install the toolbar to see more than 10 sites for in/out traffic??

12-22-2011 04:49 AM #22 pancakes (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by timjim View Post
Do I have to install the toolbar to see more than 10 sites for in/out traffic??
Nope, it's limited to 10 with and without the toolbar.

12-22-2011 09:24 AM #23 tijn (Moderator)

alexa ignores robot.txt - they will grab links from the html pages users visit with alexa toolbar installed and then goes out and spiders them.

another tip

use a site like http://domaintrakker.com/ to spot domains that have increased rapidly in their alexa rankings.

today these are obviously offers pushing a ton of volume.

videorewardstoday.com
dailyvideorewards.com
http://giftrewardonline.com/

these are used for typosquatting

ie

http://yutube.com

or pushed via Zedo

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gotjumped.com

and with a bit of compete intel you can see that there is a lot of traffic flowing through these offers

12-23-2011 02:32 PM #24 magnate (Member)

Compete pro is great if your looking for more in-depth info.

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