Affiliate Tracker

What it does

Affiliate Tracker watches the outbound links inside your blog posts. You list the domains you want tracked, such as amazon.com, and any link in a post that points to one of them, or to one of their subdomains, is sent through a redirect on your own site before the reader continues to the original address. Each pass is logged with the link, the post it came from and the page the reader arrived from. The plugin page then shows a Click report: total clicks, the change against the previous period, your most clicked links and posts, clicks by domain and a chart of clicks per day. Export CSV downloads the raw clicks. It counts clicks only. Sales and commissions stay in your affiliate network's own dashboard.

Who it's for

Bloggers who earn from affiliate links in product reviews, gear roundups, book lists and recommendation posts, and want to know which links and which posts readers actually follow before they spend time reworking the rest. It suits people who work with Amazon, Awin or similar programs and currently guess from the network's totals. It is not a sales or earnings dashboard, so if you need revenue per link you will still open your affiliate network.

How it works

1. 01

   Open the plugin's page in your admin and type the domains you want tracked into Tracked Domains, one per line or separated by commas. Press Save Settings.

2. 02

   Write posts as usual and paste your affiliate links into the body. Whenever a post page is built, each link to a tracked domain is rewritten to a redirect address on your site, and the original address is kept on the link.

3. 03

   When a reader clicks, the redirect checks that the target is on your tracked list, records the click and sends the reader on to the original address with a standard 302 redirect. A target that is not on your list is refused, so the redirect cannot be used to send people elsewhere.

4. 04

   Back on the plugin page, the Click report fills in. Choose Last 7 days, Last 30 days or Last 90 days to see totals, top links, top posts, clicks by domain and clicks per day.

5. 05

   Choose Export CSV to download every click in the selected range for a spreadsheet.

Settings you configure

Tracked Domains

One domain per line, or comma-separated. Subdomains are matched automatically, so amazon.com also covers www.amazon.com. A short-link domain needs its own line. Save Settings stores the list.

Date range

Choose Last 7 days, Last 30 days or Last 90 days. The report opens on Last 30 days. Each range is a rolling period that ends now.

Export CSV

Downloads the clicks in the selected range as a spreadsheet file with the columns clicked_at, link_url, domain, post_id and post_title.

What it can access

The plugin reads the blog post being displayed so it can rewrite tracked links, and it saves one entry per click: the link address, the post it came from and the page the reader arrived from, when their browser sends it. The click entry does not hold an IP address or browser details. It makes no calls to affiliate networks and reads no order, member or payment data. Only owners, administrators and editors can download the CSV.

Honest limits

• It counts clicks, not money. No sales, orders or commissions are recorded or shown, and a click cannot be matched to a purchase. Those figures stay in your affiliate network's own dashboard.

• Clicks are not unique visitors. One reader counts again on each click, up to 10 recorded clicks per link from one network address in five minutes. Bots and link previews that follow a link are not filtered out, because no browser details are saved.

• There is no click-through rate, because the plugin does not record how many times a link was shown.

• Only links inside blog posts are tracked, and only those pointing at a domain on your list or one of its subdomains. Links in pages, menus and footers are left as they are.

• When a range holds more than 20,000 clicks, the tables and the chart are built from the most recent 20,000 and a note says so, while the totals stay exact. The CSV stops at 100,000 rows.

• The chart's days follow UTC, and the date ranges are rolling periods rather than calendar months.

• Where a theme shows plugin content below a post, a short disclosure line about affiliate links appears in fixed English on every post while the plugin is on, even on a post with no tracked link.

Frequently asked questions

Related plugins

• Broken Link Checker & Redirect Manager
• Rewardful
• Tapfiliate

Specifications

Category

Commerce

Price

Included

Version

1.1.0

Source

First-party