Need help tracking traffic sources for recent sales in 2026 (Links Everywhere)

[user000X]

Hey there,
Good news, I'm getting sales now. I was spreading links everywhere on social media (X, TikTok, FB, Blog, IG, WhatsApp groups, Pinterest, comments, YT )ETC. I have been doing this for over 6 months. But I didn't attach any tracking to the link.​

How many sales are being made from which social media platform? I want to figure it out.

So I can focus on it and make more sales.
Drop your tips.

Note: I can't change the link because it's everywhere on the internet.

 

[caleb888]

What affiliate program are you promoting?

 

[Yoa Elizabeth]

You can’t track the old links, but your analytics may still show traffic sources for future posts, separate tracking links will make it much easier to compare platforms.

 

[user000X]

You can’t track the old links, but your analytics may still show traffic sources for future posts, separate tracking links will make it much easier to compare platforms.

What affiliate program are you promoting?

I just used a domain to redirect the traffic to my affiliate link. There is no tracking system on that domain. I'm doing Amazon affiliate T-shirt sales all over the US.

 

[Skyzone]

You can use shortened tracking links to identify where your customers are coming from. This makes it much easier to measure which traffic sources are generating the best results.

 

[Yoa Elizabeth]

I just used a domain to redirect the traffic to my affiliate link. There is no tracking system on that domain. I'm doing Amazon affiliate T-shirt sales all over the US.

In that case, add tracking at the redirect level a simple UTM setup or link tracker on your domain will show which sources bring clicks and sales.

 

[red_potato]

You can use link shortener services. There are some which are free.

 

[skkkrrrt]

You can use link shortener services. There are some which are free.

this is a great idea keep in mind though usually link shorteners are viewed sometimes as malicious to certain peope

 

[Falken Agency]

Hey there,
Good news, I'm getting sales now. I was spreading links everywhere on social media (X, TikTok, FB, Blog, IG, WhatsApp groups, Pinterest, comments, YT )ETC. I have been doing this for over 6 months. But I didn't attach any tracking to the link.​

How many sales are being made from which social media platform? I want to figure it out.

So I can focus on it and make more sales.
Drop your tips.

Note: I can't change the link because it's everywhere on the internet.

Since you can't change the old links, your best bet is server-side, check the referrer data on incoming traffic, your analytics (GA or even server logs) will show which platform sent each visitor for a lot of them. It's not perfect since app traffic and some in-app browsers strip the referrer, but it'll give you a rough split. From what I've seen the cleaner fix going forward is to point that one URL to a page you control and do the tracking there, then you can tag or redirect by source without touching the links already out there. So you don't need to change the link, just change what sits behind it.

 

[floqal]

The six months already spent aren't recoverable, so the useful question is what you put in place before the next six.

The cheapest reliable method is a separate destination per channel rather than one link carrying parameters. Parameters get stripped, rewritten or lost the moment a link is copied into a chat, while a distinct short link or landing path survives that. One per platform, and inside a platform one per placement if you care which post did the work.

Watch the half-measured trap on the way. When we tagged only some of our own links, the tagged ones looked like they carried the whole result, purely because the rest was invisible. Half-instrumented data is worse than none, because it hands you a confident wrong answer.

You can also just ask. A one-line checkout field asking where they heard about you covers the traffic no link can attribute, and people answer it more often than you would expect.

Best,
Floqal

 

[Zephyroo]

Since you own the redirect domain, you can actually track those old links for future clicks. Every time someone clicks one of those old posts, they still hit your domain first before redirecting to Amazon.

If you host that domain on a cheap cPanel or VPS, just set up a simple PHP redirect script instead of a basic registrar forward. You can log the referrer header (HTTP_REFERER) to a text file or database before sending them to Amazon. It won't help with past sales, but it will show you where your current clicks are coming from. TikTok, FB, and X usually pass referrers, though some mobile apps strip them.

Its not perfect because of app stripping but you will get a pretty good idea of which platform is actually active. For future stuff though... definitely use different Amazon tracking IDs for each platform. It makes life way easier.