ClickMagick for Affiliate Marketing - Track Offers You Don't Own (2026)

Why Affiliates Need More Than Network Stats

Your affiliate network tells you how many sales you made. It doesn't tell you which email, solo-ad vendor, video or ad produced them. ClickMagick's own knowledge base puts the affiliate challenge plainly: success comes from maximizing the spread between what your traffic costs and what it earns.

To manage that spread, you need to know earnings per source, not just in total. ClickMagick connects each click to the commission it produced, filters out bot clicks that inflate your traffic, and lets you track any number of offers, with unlimited affiliate projects on every plan.

Two Ways to Track Affiliate Offers

ClickMagick gives affiliates two tracking systems. Which you use depends on where the traffic goes.

A common setup uses both: Tracking Links for list and solo-ad traffic, and Campaigns for the paid traffic that hits a bridge page before the offer.

Setting Up an Affiliate Offer

1. Copy your affiliate linkFrom your network, such as a ClickBank hoplink or a CJ link.
2. Add a unique ID with the Affiliate Link BuilderOpen the Tools menu, pick your network and paste your link. For landing pages, set Tracking Type to Campaigns.
3. Set up the postbackAdd ClickMagick's postback URL in your network's settings so sales report back automatically. ClickMagick works with any network that supports Sub-IDs or postback URLs.
4. Create links per traffic sourceOne tracked link for each email, vendor, video or ad, named clearly.
5. Test with a real clickConfirm the click appears, then check a conversion reports back once you get one.

Our postback URL guide explains how postbacks work if they're new to you.

Tracking by Traffic Source

Why Bot Filtering Matters So Much for Affiliates

Affiliates often buy traffic by the click, especially solo ads. If a share of those clicks are bots, two things go wrong: you overpay the vendor, and your conversion rate looks worse than it really is, which can lead you to drop an offer that actually works.

ClickMagick filters bot and fake clicks out of your reports, and claims to catch about 99% of them. That lets you judge vendors and offers on human traffic, and gives you a clear record when a vendor's clicks don't hold up.

Retargeting Pixels and Device Targeting

ClickMagick's Tracking Links have advanced settings that affiliates find handy. You can add third-party retargeting pixels to a link, so anyone who clicks can be shown ads later, even though you don't own the offer's page.

You can also send iOS or mobile visitors to a different destination, which helps when an offer has a mobile-specific page or an app version.

Reading Your Affiliate Reports

The numbers that matter most are earnings per click and earnings per source. Here's an illustrative example with assumed figures to show what to look for.

Without per-source tracking, all you'd see is $770 earned on $750 spent, a small profit that hides one great vendor and one money-loser. With it, you reorder from Vendor A, drop Vendor B, and test Vendor C again.

Which Plan Suits Affiliates?

Starter, at $79 a month or $66 billed annually, covers 10,000 tracked visitors and includes unlimited affiliate projects, which suits most solo affiliates. If you regularly buy solo ads and run paid traffic on top of email, you can pass 10,000 visitors quickly, and Standard's 100,000 allowance becomes the better value. See our pricing guide for the details.