Advertising & Tracking Using PingFM and Free .TK TLD’s

When you are running a business, online or offline, your highest priority is how to expose your ads to your target market as well as tracking the results of your advertising to see what promotional method is bringing in the best results.

One method that I use and which can bring in a high volume of traffic is PingFM and free .tk domains.

PingFM is a service that allows you to connect various social networking and bookmarking sites under one account and have the information you send through your PingFM account filter to all of your networks with basically the push of a button.

It takes a little time to set it up properly but using the PingFM service is well worth it for the ability to automate your social networking campaigns and it’s potential to generate volumes of targeted traffic.

Dot TK (.tk) top level domains, which is a free services allows you to register redirecting domains under the stipulation that each domain garners at least 25 visitors per every 3 month period. You can also purchase .tk domains in an outright fashion as with any tld service.

For instance, if you are promoting an affiliate program and you want to:

Write articles for ezinearticles.com promoting that affiliate program
Cloak your affiliate link to avoid link hijacking
Track your affiliate links click through rates and conversions

You can easily achieve all of this with a .tk domain name even though you may need to use a third party services for the tracking aspect.

What you would do is have your .tk domain name forward to your tracking service affiliate link which in turn will forward to the affiliate program you are promoting.

This will help with your article marketing since directories such as ezinearticles.com will only allow affiliate promotions via a top level domain.

Also, you will have the ability to change the nature of the offer by simply changing the tracking link and not the .tk link that your will be spreading all over the net.

Instead of your prospects seeing an affiliate link, they will see a real domain name which can help with promotional credibility.

You can also use your .tk domain name and post messages to your PingFM account that will spread throughout your social networking sites.

The beauty of all of this is that it’s free.

Throw in the use of a free wordpress or blogger hosted blog and you can run free campaigns until your fingers go numb.