At least once a week, I’ll be reading a forum and someone eventually someone asks the same question about tracking affiliate links. Every time, I have to recommend GoTryThis (GTT). I have found it to be an awesome tool in my marketing toolbox.

What does GoTryThis do, you ask?

Basically, it’s a link management system that you as an affiliate marketer can use to keep track of all the links you are promoting.

You take your links for any affiliate program site like Commission Junction, ClickBank, LinkShare, etc) and add them to GTT.

This system saves you a lot of time from manually creating some kind of redirect file be it a PHP header redirect or an META REFRESH, plus gives you a lot of tracking details.

Such details including: date & time, referrer, requestor IP address and how many times that person has clicked the link.

As soon as you login to GTT you are looking at a dashboard of the performance of all your links over the last 7 days. So at a glance you can tell which of your links is performing the best. You can then drill down into the click details for any individual link.

Advanced features of GoTryThis:

When you are adding a GTT link to your web site, you can simply add a “-keyword” to the end of the URL on the fly. You don’t have to add the keyword into GTT, just add it however you need to. This is for tracking different linking campaigns (or locations).

Say you’re using a sales letter page. You could have a GTT link to your order forms, and append a “-1″, “-2″, ‘-3″ to the links going down the page. By doing this you gain some intelligence as to how far your visitors are reading down the page.

GTT also has a built in split-testing system. When you add a link to a ”Dog Food” program to Purina.com, you could also add another program to that same link to Eukanuba.com.

So for example, if you have already put your “Dog Food” link on your web site, you now manage that link from GTT without having to touch the actual web site. When you add the second link, GTT will automatically divide the traffic evenly between the competing programs. This is how you find the best program to promote. Once you do, you can remove the failing link from the mix and just test the best offer.

The bells and whistles of GTT:

The system uses nice flash line charts throughout the entire script to give a great visual representation of your traffic data.

Each link gets has a real time tracking option so you can watch users clicking your links by campaign almost providing a “HumanClick” type of system (watching users in real time on your site).

In their next version, they plan to have agents that you can install on all of your web sites but control from one admin control panel. This will give you the ability to create nice looking affiliate links at any domain. (i.e. mydogfood.com/bestdogfood vs myproductlinks.com/bestdogfood). This will also help focus search engine spiders on all of your domains rather than just your main GTT domain.

These details are based on the White-Hat version of their software. They also have a limited membership to their Black-Hat version which has tons more features.

You really need to get this for yourself to see the benefits. Once you do, you’ll never go back to creating affiliate links any other way.

I have been using this system since it was first released in July, 2006, and didn’t have any issues when purchasing and installing and still haven’t had any issues to this day. It has been a really great product.