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Ad Tracking

Ad tracking, also known as post-testing or ad effectiveness tracking is in-market research that monitors a brand’s performance including brand and advertising awareness, product trial and usage, and attitudes about the brand versus their competition.

The purpose of ad tracking is generally to provide a measure of the combined effect of the media weight or spending level, the effectiveness of the media buy or targeting, and the quality of the advertising executions or creative.
 
Advertisers use the results of ad tracking to estimate the return on investment (ROI) of advertising, and to refine advertising plans. Sometimes, tracking data are used to provide inputs to Marketing Mix Models which marketing science statisticians build to estimate the role of advertising, as compared to pricing, distribution and other marketplace variables on sales of the brand.

There are several different tools to effectively track online ads: banner ads, ppc ads, pop-up ads, and other types.

(above source: wikipedia)


MyHooplaTracker.com - Free ad tracker

adtrackzgold

http://www.google.com/analytics/ - free tracking stats


Web site & web page tracking

If you are going to do any king of advertising for your website, and most website need to to get any traffic to their website, you need web page tracking.
You need to be able to track the number of visitors you received to your web page or web site & when, along with other valuable visitor info to your site.

Web page tracking is a must if you are going to track & test results for split-testing ads or use various advertising methods or sources.

You can get web page tracking using a few different methods...

1. https://analytics.google.com/ - google offers free visitor information for your page
- all you need to do is add some javascript code to your web page, so google knows which page to track

2. Your web site host tracking
- if you have a website host for your website, they usually offer tracking also that you can view in your cpanel or wherever

3. A counter on your web page
- you can add a 3rd party script or code, or wordpress blog apps