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Data plays an important part in running a successful business. Gathering and analyzing data gives businesses a better perspective on their performance. Many businesses use data to make financial and marketing decisions. This is especially true for heavily data-driven internet companies.

In affiliate marketing, data plays an important part. After a merchant sets up their affiliate program, data such as page visits using the affiliate’s referrals, the conversion rate from visits to purchases or affiliate revenue give a more detailed view of the program. This data can be used to improve the performance of the program, by working out on weaknesses that can be highlighted in the data.

Data showing the performance of affiliates can be particularly useful since it shows how each affiliate is performing. This can be used to guide affiliates to improve their performance. This data can also highlight how future performance would like and helps you create marketing strategies in advance. ‌

Here are 4 data points that can help you improve your affiliate program‌

Table of Contents‌

1. Number of Visits
2. Conversion Rate
3. Number of Orders
4. Affiliate Revenue

1. Number of Visits

The number of visits is an important metric, it highlights the number of people who are visiting your website using the affiliate’s referral links. This is a great metric to see how the affiliates in your program are performing.

The data showcases how well a promotion done by an affiliate is going. A higher number of unique visits indicates that a higher number of people are visiting your store using the affiliate’s referral link. This means that the promotions being carried out by the affiliates are successful. ‌

2. Conversion Rate

The conversion rate is an important metric for an affiliate program. It highlights the number of people who have purchased from your store. A successful conversion would mean when a customer who visited a store using an affiliate’s referral ended up making a purchase.

Many businesses face the problem of converting visitors to customers. A great way to improve your store’s conversion rate is by providing discount coupons to affiliates to share in their promotions. Many people are hesitant to purchase from a new brand or store, so giving away discount coupons or codes can incentivize customers to go through with a purchase.‌

3. Number of Orders

The number of orders is a simple way of knowing how your affiliate program in performing in general. This metric indicates the number of orders that have been placed on your store by customers using an affiliate’s referral link.

The number of orders also helps you see the sales figure of your store, with order number curve’s trajectory one can plan for the future course of action to improve or sustain it. To increase the number of orders in your store, solutions such as using discount coupons, providing store discounts to customers can work well.‌

4. Affiliate Revenue

Affiliate revenue is also a vital metric that needs to be analyzed. It shows how much revenue an affiliate is earning from his/her commission through referrals. It is also a key indicator of an affiliate’s performance.

The metric also helps you adjust the commission rates for affiliates, increasing the commission rate will result in a boost in affiliate revenue which would encourage affiliates in your program to perform better. If the affiliate revenue is less, it could indicate at either an insufficient commission rate or a fall in sales using affiliate referrals. ‌

Conclusion

Analytical data is important for running a successful affiliate program. This data can easily be analyzed and worked upon to improve the performance of affiliates in your program and also make it more efficient.