For a while now I’ve been setting up trackable links using the Pretty Link WordPress plugin to see whether people will click through from one of my books to the Amazon buy page for another book. I put these links in the back of each book, pointing to the others in the series, and use a naming convention so that I can tell what the source book and target book are.
Today, I was setting one up and had a look at the report (the plugin tracks the number of clicks on each link). The numbers are small – all my sales-related numbers are small – but people are clicking the links. The biggest number is from people clicking through from my first Auckland Allies book to the second, which makes sense, since I recently did a free promo on the first one.
If you’re interested in tracking such things, the plugin is free and easy to use, or you could use another service such as bit.ly.
I’m considering it. I feel like I’m inundated with data and wouldn’t really know what to do with the info anyway.
Perhaps it would be useful to track the sales coming from my individual first-in-series vs. the same book in a multi-author boxed set. Hm. ponders
Did you get the pro version?
No, just the free one.