Hey affiliates and entrepreneurs. 

You have probably landed on this page, because you’ve heard about Click Magic (correctly referred to as ClickMagick) and have been recommended to use a link tracking software in your affiliate marketing campaigns to make it more profitable. 

Well if that is the case, then you have stumbled on the right blog. It is here, where I share affiliate marketing tips from my own journey, with other aspiring affiliates who also want to be successful. Click here to see my affiliate marketing archive. 

If you have yet to set up a campaign, or you are thinking of setting up your first affiliate marketing campaign, you must have heard that it is important that you always track the performance of your campaign with a link tracking software. 

Now why is that even important? Why should you need to be concerned about using link tracking software in your ad campaigns? 

Well if you stick around till the end, you will understand everything you need to know about link tracking or ad tracking and why I recommend ClickMagick as one of the best link tracking software and ad tracking software for your affiliate marketing campaigns. 

What does ClickMagick do?

Click Magic is a software designed by Patrick Kelly, who is also an affiliate marketer. It was designed in 2014 to help other affiliates make their campaigns more profitable, by optimising their traffic and websites. 

As an affiliate marketer, or marketer in general, if you are buying traffic or even if you are using several traffic sources in your campaigns, your goal should always be to optimise the cost of your traffic campaigns or pin point which traffic sources are bringing in the best results in your campaigns. 

Let’s look at an example to help break this down further. 

Supposing you decide that you would like to use four different free traffic methods to help you generate traffic to your affiliate offers. 

Let’s name them traffic source A, traffic source B, traffic source C and traffic source D.

You are promoting a health supplement affiliate offer and you post about this offer in all four traffic sources and add your affiliate link there. 

After a couple days you notice that you got five sales of the affiliate product. 

That’s great right? But which traffic source helped you get those five sales? 

Do you know whether it is traffic source A, B, C or D?

If you do not know which traffic source helped you get the sale, how would you know where to spend your time? Do you prefer to spend your time, posting on all four traffic sources or do you prefer to spend your energy on the one traffic source that helped you get five sales? 

I don’t know about you, but I would rather focus my effort on the one traffic source that was giving me results, as opposed to all four traffic sources, since that is a waste of my time. Do you agree? 

Well this is what Click Magic helps you to eliminate. It helps you to get rid of any element in your affiliate marketing campaign, that is not working for you – whether that is a traffic source, a keyword, an email list, etc. 

Anything that you want to track in your campaign that helps you get conversions, it helps you to track. 

I just gave you an example with free traffic. Let me make this a bit clearer by giving you another example – this time with paid traffic. 

Let’s suppose you are using Facebook Ads to drive traffic to an affiliate offer. You set up a campaign that is targeting four different audiences. Because the affiliate offer does not allow you to put the Facebook pixel on the affiliate conversion page, you need to rely on guesswork, to figure out which audience converted into a sale. 

What would happen then, if you got five sales from the campaign and those sales came from one of those audiences. 

In the beginning you spent $20 per audience to drive traffic to the affiliate offer. You spent $80 in total and earned $200. One of those audiences however resulted in all the sales. 

Wouldn’t it be better to track your ads and pay only $20 to make $200 instead of $80 to make $200? 

If you were using Click Magic to track your links and ads, you would then be able to improve your campaigns so you can make it more profitable. 

This is what ClickMagick does and is why I would recommend that it is added to your affiliate marketing toolkit. 

How does ClickMagick work?

ClickMagick is useful for tracking ad campaigns, but besides tracking capabilities, they do have other features that you can use. Let’s first talk about tracking your campaigns. 

To get started with Click Magic, you do need a custom domain. 

A custom domain is a unique name that you give to a domain or URL. Essentially it is your own domain that belongs to you and no one else. 

To create a custom domain you can go to Namecheap, where you can get a domain name for less than $1.

Once you have a custom domain, you need to add it to Click Magic and this is what you will use to create a number of tracking links that you can use in your affiliate marketing campaigns. 

I can’t tell you specifically how the software works, but from my experience of using Click Magic, my thoughts are this. 

This link tracking software understands when a user clicks on your tracking link or custom domain. If you have set up your campaign to track a number of leads generated from an ad campaign, the software is able to identify, through the use of Click Magic’s pixels, when a user lands on a website page, that only a subscriber can have access to, when they opt into a contact form. 

The software can also identify, when that same user lands on a website page, that only a purchaser will have access to, when they buy a product. This way, if you have a tracking link to track sales from different traffic sources, you will understand which traffic source is driving the most sales and therefore is more profitable for you. 

For Click magic to work, you do need your tracking link. You also need to add a pixel to the appropriate website page that a user will land on. 

What is a pixel?

A pixel is simply a piece of website code, that you can add to the html settings of your website. ClickMagick gives you the exact code you will need. Also many website builders have made it easy for you to copy and paste website code into their html settings, so you won’t have to worry about knowing how to code. 

Here is an example of ClickMagick’s pixel that has been easily added to my LeadPages landing page. It’s just a matter of copying and pasting. 

What happens if you are promoting an affiliate offer but do not own the affiliate website and therefore do not have access to the affiliate landing page to place the Click Magic pixel on it for tracking sales. 

No problem either. There are a number of ways that you can track affiliate sales with Click Magic. 

These methods are supported by most affiliate networks and include using postback URLs or sub-IDs. If the affiliate network does not support these methods, then Click Magic recommends something called the “bonus page” to help you track sales.

What is a Postback URL?

A postback URL, to put simple, is a way that one platform communicates with another platform, letting them know that a conversion has taken place. 

For example, if you are an affiliate for Maxbounty and you would like Maxbounty to automatically notify you when there is an affiliate sale conversion, you can set up a postback URL between Maxbounty and ClickMagick.

Maxbounty will then “talk” to Click Magic and let them know that a conversion has happened. Click Magic will then alert you through their notification feature, that a conversion happened. 

Click here for my ultimate Maxbounty and Bings Ads blog post, that teaches you how to set up an affiliate marketing campaign using Maxbounty, Bing Ads and ClickMagick.

You can easily set up a postback URL by copying and pasting a script code, that Click Magic gives to you and paste this into your affiliate network’s postback URL settings. 

What are sub-IDs?

Sub-IDs are simply identifiers that you create for yourself or is created by the affiliate network, that goes at the end of a URL to help you identify something. In this case,  the URL is your tracking link or affiliate link.

So let’s say that you are promoting a health supplement affiliate offer and you want to track three traffic sources – a Facebook ad, your blog or a Bing Ad. 

You can add sub-IDs at the end of your tracking link to tell Click Magic, where the click came from. 

Your tracking link might be www.trackinglink.com. A sub-ID at the end of the tracking link would look like this: 

Facebook ad www.trackinglink.com/xyz/fbad

Blog www.trackinglink.com/xyz/blog

Bing www.trackinglink.com/xyz/bing

That’s it! So the sub-ID is like a reference to help you understand which traffic source is driving the most clicks. You also do not need to create multiple tracking links for each traffic source. Simply use sub-IDs.

Now in some cases, affiliate networks can use sub-IDs to help track conversions. In this case, the network may have parameters, which are their own identifiers, that are added to sub-IDs.

Regardless of which method you use to track your campaigns, Click Magic provides tutorials to help you set up each tracking method. 

Who is Click Magic for? 

Click Magic can be used by any marketer that wants to track the performance of something; whether that is to track link clicks, product sales, affiliate conversions, subscribers, split tests, etc. 

ClickMagick for Affiliates

This link tracking software is primarily used by affiliate marketers to help them improve the performance and profitability of their campaigns. 

If you are an affiliate marketer, I strongly recommend that you use this link tracking software, to start tracking your campaigns properly.

ClickMagick for Bloggers

It can also be used by bloggers if they would like to know which blog post is driving the most conversions. 

For example, if you have several blog posts that are promoting an affiliate offer, wouldn’t it be useful to you, if you knew which blog post was sending the most traffic and resulting in the most conversions? 

That way you will be able to optimise that blog post and also promote it more to get more conversions. 

As a blogger myself, Click Magic is also useful to help me add affiliate links to my blog. When I am promoting a product, I always add the Click Magic tracking link to my blog instead of the affiliate link. 

The reason for this is, supposing an affiliate link becomes inactive. That means, I would have to go through each blog post and remove the affiliate link. 

That would take me ages to complete. 

But by adding the affiliate link to a ClickMagick tracking link first, should an affiliate link become inactive, I can easily log into my Click Magic account and update the tracking link with the new affiliate link, saving me time and preventing me from missing out on important conversions. 

Click Magic for Product Owners

Just like an affiliate, you can also use ClickMagick to help you track campaigns for the promotion of your own products and make them profitable. 

You may be generating subscribers to an email list. If you have two landing pages and want to split test them, Click Magic can help you create a split test, then measure the performance of each landing page and give you accurate results as to which one is more successful.     

If you want to track the performance of a funnel in an ad campaign you can use Click Magic to do that. 

In a nutshell, Click Magic isn’t a tool that is only used by affiliates. It is a tool that can be used by any marketer, who wants to track the performance of a campaign and optimise it to make it more profitable. 

How to track an entire sales funnel with Click Magic

If you would like to track an entire sales funnel, you can with ClickMagick. 

In fact, Click Magic has a guided tutorial that helps you create tracking links for each funnel page and piece them together. 

As an affiliate or product owner, it is essential that your funnels are tracked properly, so you can understand how they perform against the traffic that is being sent to it. 

That way, you can optimise the funnel to improve your conversions. 

When conversions are improved, you maximise every visitor that visits your funnel, so you can improve your marketing efforts and get a better ROI.

Inside ClickMagick

You may be wondering, what inside of Click Magic looks like. 

Well let’s take a tour, so you can get a first-hand glimpse of what this link tracking software can provide. It will take you one step closer to making the decision, that you need this link tracking software in your business life. 

Click Magic Stats

As you log in to Click Magic you will come to your home page where ClickMagick gives you the stats for the day. You can also adjust the dates and choose whichever dates you want to view. 

These stats are broken down into the number of tracking link clicks you had, the number of rotator link clicks you had, if this was set up, the number of conversions to include actions, engagements or sales you had and the amount of revenue generated. 

These stats will reflect accurately when you set up your tracking links and pixels.

ClickMagick Training

On the home page, Click Magic also has links to their Experts Academy, a suite of digital marketing courses that you have access to at the Standard and Pro plans. At the Experts Academy you get to pick one new free training per month. 

The standard and pro plans start from $67/month so essentially you are paying $67 for free digital marketing training. 

I am not entirely impressed, as I know of other websites that offer unlimited access to courses for the same price. So you can decide whether this is something worth the value to you, to start at the standard plan. 

Aside from the introduction to the Experts Academy, there’s also introduction to Click Magic training, from email tracking, social media tracking and a click tracking guide. 

So as soon as you log in, you really do not have to go anywhere else. All the training that you need to get started is on the home page. 

Create Tracking Links

Once you have gone through the training, you can immediately begin creating tracking links to track your campaigns. 

Do not forget however that you first need a custom domain. This custom domain will be unique to you. 

I do not recommend using ClickMagick’s own domain, since many affiliates also use this and it could tarnish your campaigns if you are using traffic sources like Facebook or Google. 

To get your own Click Magic custom domain, go to Namecheap where you can buy a domain from $0.99; then link it to ClickMagick by going to your Domain Manager. 

ClickMagick Rotators

If you are a solo ad vendor or part of a traffic co-op, there is the option to use Click Magic’s link rotator feature to help you rotate multiple links and send traffic to them. 

ClickMagick Split Test

If you have more than one landing page or offer you would like to split test, then use ClickMagick’s split testing feature. 

Split testing is essentially creating more than one variation of something, whether that is a landing page or an offer and testing it with your audience to see which one your traffic responds better to. 

Click Magic will then monitor your split test and tell you which one is a clear winner, helping you with your marketing efforts. 

This feature can be found in the actual link settings by clicking the gear on the tracking link that you create. 

Click Magic Traffic Quality

As an affiliate marketer, you may need to buy traffic. The traffic quality feature helps you understand the quality of your traffic by giving you a ClickMagick measurement – that is, whether your traffic is very good, good, average or poor. 

Traffic quality with a poor rating, often means that the traffic is fake or bot traffic. This information can be useful to you, if you are a purchaser of traffic and you want to know whether your seller is providing you with quality traffic. 

If there is any doubt you can always show the vendor your traffic report, which will support any disputes you may have. 

Click Magic Traffic Analysis 

Want a deeper dive into your traffic and to see where your traffic and conversions are coming from? 

Then the traffic analysis report provides you with information on which country has visitors clicking on your links the most, the platform they are on – whether mobile or desktop and their operating system.

ClickMagick Content Tools   

Click Magic isn’t only useful for tracking. They also provide tools to help you with your marketing, such as to capture leads or to add urgency timers to landing pages. 

With Click Magic’s content tools like MagickPops, MagickBars and timers you can add lead capture pop up boxes and bars to your blog pages or landing pages, to generate more leads. 

If you have a sale or want a user to take immediate action, then their countdown timers are really helpful here. 

Before you think that this link tracking software is ideal for helping you generate leads on your websites, I have to say that their pop up lead boxes and notification bars look like they could do with an update.

Their editor reminds me of the 90’s and it has been a bit difficult to navigate to actually create the lead pop up box and navigation bar.

Have a look for yourself. Don’t you agree that it’s outdated?

ClickMagick Notification

If you are buying traffic, knowing how your landing pages or even the traffic is performing, is probably very important to you. 

That’s why with Click Magic, you can set up notifications to alert you when certain rules apply. 

For example, if you have set up a tracking link and your aim is to get leads, you can ask Click Magic to notify you by email or SMS, when the lead conversion rate is less than 20% after 500 clicks have been sent. 

This helps you to avoid wasting money on something that is not working so well and gives you the chance to fix it. 

Click Magic Link Down

Another great feature of ClickMagick, is their alerts telling you when a link is down. This is useful, for example, if an affiliate network changes their link or deactivates an offer and causes your affiliate link to stop working. 

If this happens, ClickMagick monitors the link and provides you with an immediate email alert notifying you that the link is down. 

This then gives you time to investigate it, so you do not waste money if you are paying for traffic. Or gives you the chance to change the link, if indeed it is no longer active. 

ClickMagick Support 

I have been on the starter plan with Click Magic since I got started using this link tracking software in 2016 and the support has been no less than amazing. 

It may not be instant support, but you can open a support ticket and get a response within four hours.

What I like about their support is that they make their responses customised to your problems and really do a deep dive into your problem to help you. 

If necessary they even provide helpful videos, showing you why there is a problem and how to fix it. 

The type of plan that you have, will determine how quickly you receive support. With the starter plan, you receive four-hour support. With the standard and pro plans you receive one-hour support. 

Aside from their support, they also have a Knowledge Base and tons of video tutorials to help you navigate this tracking software and figure things out. 

ClickMagick Pricing

There are three plans that you can choose from, to get started with. 

When deciding which plan to get started with, consider whether you are a heavy traffic buyer and will be sending a lot of traffic to your tracking links. 

If that is the case and you are not quite sure, you can always start at the starter plan. Click Magic then automatically upgrades you to the second, standard plan, should you exceed the number of clicks allowed under the starter plan. 

Another thing to consider is the number of custom domains you intend to have. If you will only have one custom domain to use as a tracking link, to track everything, then starting at the starter plan may very well be a good option for you. 

The starter plan allows two custom domains. 

If you intend to use more than two custom domains then the standard or pro plan may be a better option.

ClickMagick Bonus and Wrapping Up

Listen, as an affiliate marketer or marketer in general, if it is one piece of advice that you take to heart as you start your career, is to track everything. 

Make sure of that. You may not understand the importance of this today, but as you begin to set up affiliate marketing campaigns or marketing campaigns and you begin sending traffic to product offers, you will realise how crucial it is, to track everything so you can build profitable campaigns. 

Having a link tracking software and ad tracking software like Click Magic, is very important to help you become successful in your affiliate marketing journey. 

This is why I am inviting you to trial Click Magic for 14 days, so you can see the impact that it makes in your business. 

If you start your trial make sure to get your ClickMagick bonus where I will send you free access to my Bing Ads affiliate marketing tutorial which will show you how I use ClickMagick to set up my affiliate marketing campaigns profitably on Bing. 

Click here to get your free trial, then click here to get your bonus.

Are you an affiliate who uses tracking? Tell me in the comments how this had an impact on your business.

Thanks for reading guys.

Cheers