Are you tired of promoting your site and your affiliate programs and not knowing what's working and what's not?If your web host offers stats that at least let you know what page's people are going to. This will work for you.
Below you will find a simple HTML code to use to make your own redirect pages. You can use it for pages on your site and use a different name for them.
Say URL to page you want to advertise in a particular eZine or classified is http://www.yourdomain.com/products.html put this link in HTML code below in this area of code.
Now name it with a different name such as product2.html and save it to your web site files. Next upload this page to your site.
Now when you place your ad list URL in it as: http://www.yourdomain.com/products2.html
This URL will redirect to: http://www.yourdomain.com/products.html but will show in your stats as: http://www.yourdomain.com/products2.html
When you check your stats you will be able to see exactly how many hits you received from eZine or classified or wherever you placed your ads. You can also do this with your affiliate programs following same instructions as above. This will also make your affiliate links look better.
To keep track of your advertising, here is an example of a file to set up. Say you want to use same ad and test several different ways to promote it. Simply make your file like this.