Category: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

To Cloak Or Not To Cloak

Written by Brian D. Hawkins from http://hotblogtips.com/ on December 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Q: What is better – cloaked or not cloaked? A: I recommend you only cloak when necessary to protect an affiliate link. Cloaking can cause problems with certain scripts and it’s better to only use when necessary. See ‘Cloaked Tracker Fails On Affiliate Site‘. If you are Get the rest of the story here

I’m New To Link Tracking – Question?

Written by Brian D. Hawkins from http://hotblogtips.com/ on July 15th, 2009 | 5 Comments

Q: I am new at this and am trying to learn all of this on my own.I have a few web sites and am trying to advertise them through (removed).(Removed) has sent me the format that the ad needs to be in but I am not sure if:Is the ad tracker url to be attached to our actual website url as yours is so Get the rest of the story here

Setting Up Your Ad Tracker Groups

Written by Brian D. Hawkins from http://hotblogtips.com/ on February 8th, 2009 | 4 Comments

Setting up tracking groups within your membership area is very simple and a great way to organize your tracking links. Once new groups are created trackers came be moved from one group to another. Trackers in indidual groups are displayed together. Example: For example, your groups could be setup Get the rest of the story here

Can You Delete My Account?

Written by Brian D. Hawkins from http://hotblogtips.com/ on December 14th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Q: Hi, I misunderstood what your program did – I was looking for a program that would create affiliate tracking codes for me/my site that I could assign to my affiliates. Can you please delete my account, I cannot find a place to update the account information or to delete it. A: Absolutly. Get the rest of the story here

Cloaked Tracker Fails On Affiliate Site

Written by Brian D. Hawkins from http://hotblogtips.com/ on December 14th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Q: A url I wanted to track did not work with your service. You can check it out by going to this full url and clicking the PayPal button at the bottom, see the result, then try the shortened version. it fails. A: Some scripts will not work within a framed page. Our cloaked trackers use an Get the rest of the story here

Do You Have Group Memberships?

Written by Brian D. Hawkins from http://hotblogtips.com/ on November 22nd, 2008 | 0 Comments

Q: I’m selling ads on my website (www.thepanamareport.com) in the form of links and banners. I’d simply like a system into which my advertisers may log in and see their stats real time meaning each has their own username and password to access specifically their results (I use joomla Get the rest of the story here

Tracking On My Own Domain

Written by Brian D. Hawkins from http://hotblogtips.com/ on November 8th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Q: I have no clue how this works. Is there somewhere that I can get an overview of the whole thing? For example I want to track the url above but I do not want to shorten it or change and I am not understanding how to do this. Can someone help me out please. It looks like I need to add something Get the rest of the story here

Different Trackers For One Site

Written by Brian D. Hawkins from http://hotblogtips.com/ on October 4th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Q: I need an adtracker that will tell me how many hits I’m getting from each Safelist. It does me no good to run a test email to three Safelists to see the kind of hits each gave me if all the hits are together! I need to tag each address with a code that will tell me how many hits I got Get the rest of the story here

How Do You Promote Our Links?

Written by Brian D. Hawkins from http://hotblogtips.com/ on September 28th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Q: I believe I signed up as an affiliate which I don’t want to be for the present. I just want to advertise in the Classified ads section. How do you advertise our sites? A: I apologize if I’m wrong but it seems that you may be confused as to what our site is and does based on your Get the rest of the story here

My Hits Do Not Match

Written by Brian D. Hawkins from http://hotblogtips.com/ on September 20th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Q: The statistics in one of my groups show the following: 96/65/76/89 hits (from top to bottom) to the respective URLs. The similar statistic in -removed-`s own stats shows: 1902/1577/1588/1998. I find that difference very strange, and I am of course very interested to know which stats are Get the rest of the story here