I am an affiliate marketer who loves tracking. When I post content online, ideally I want to know the origin of every URL click. But doing this becomes a huge tracking problem.
For example, if I have 10 posts on Facebook with a link in each post, how do I track the number of clicks on each post? The only way to truly know is to have a different URL for each post.
If I did this, then every day (I track clicks daily) I would have to look at the clicks for all 10 URLs.
Later this year if I have 100 total posts, do I have 100 different URLs too?
There comes a point when I cannot have too many different URLs because it is too much work to track clicks.
At the same time, it is hard to figure out how many total URLs I want to maintain and how to categorize them so I can understand the origin of the clicks for each URL.
This is the problem I am facing today. I have about 6 different URLs that I have included in different social media posts. I want to expand on this and create more, but I also do not want to cause more work to track results.
So, I have decided to categorize the URLs so I can at least know the general origin of a click. I might not know the results of every post, but I know that clicks came from posts on a particular app (because I use the same URL for those posts).
It is a tug of war between being realistic with tracking and wanting to track everything.
Ideally, I want to use no more than 10-12 total URLs.
Hopefully, I can make this work!