Hi guys, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
We are pretty flabbergasted at those ratios. We have never seen anyone with those kinds of numbers.
Just checked our stats for June, and there are only 4, out of a couple thousand, that are in those numbers.
2 31,112 1:15556.0
1 20,667 1:20667.0
1 17,358 1:17358.0
1 13,754 1:13754.0
The only thing we can think of is the following:
1. CCbill has been having problems for the last few months with odd ratios and tracking. Why it affects some and not others, we do not know.
CCbill has always been the TOP third party biller around, whatever is happening, we're sure they are on top of it. IF it even has anything to do with them, which has yet to be determined.
Yes, ccbill ratios in particular are way off, according to many people, however, we have no direct knowledge of this and cannot speak on CCbill's behalf.
What are we going to do to try to fix this? Well it definately is an isolated situation or it would affect all our affiliates. We are almost done with our incorporation into Nats - most likely within a week. We are in beta now.
That means we will be moving Epoch and other processors, such as Netbilling, into the first place of the cascade feature, so ratios like that won't happen again in addition to backing up any tracking done by CCbill, Epoch or Netbilling with NATS.
All this should give everyone a much better idea of how they are doing in terms of sales, clicks, etc. We expect no longer than a week, and we will have our new system available to affiliates.
2. Foreign traffic. There has been a huge flood of foreign traffic in the internet, within the last year, which is steadily growing, mainly due to many countries recently offering broadband services that were not available before to:
- non credit card users with no REAL method of payment through the existing processors we use.
- credit card users that are blocked by existing processors who scrub too hard or ban those countries.
In addition, many freesites, TGP's, etc are purchasing cheap foreign traffic to boost their trades. Clicks are not what they used to be, and we're sure everyone can vouch for that.
3. Promotion. How are you promoting our sites? This is really important. Many hardcore TGP's will try to sell our sofcore sites as hardcore sites, or simply put, hardcore traffic will convert MUCH worse towards softcore and nonnude sites, than the reverse.
Also, saying things like " See Kristina take it up the ass" when she does nothing even remotely similar, will not work well either
There are many other things behind this as well, which we can help our affiliates with, if they contact us, and give us the opportunity to analyze the situation and help correct, improve, or change things around, to better the outcome.
We would suggest that affiliates contact us, when clicks are in the 1500 range, as it is NOT normal to NOT get a sale before then.
Our average, even with a few odd cases such as yourself, is 1/790 - which is quite good, considering.
Please contact us, let's figure this out:
Ravinwall
Dog Keeper
ICQ: 144735794
Skype: panchodog
Phone: 1-213-596-6965
Email:
[email protected]
Scratch
Dog Keeper
Skype: scratch_panchodog
ICQ: 149961842
Phone: 1-213-596-6965
Email:
[email protected]
Izzy
Affiliate Manager
ICQ: 244185772
Phone: 1-213-596-6965
Email:
[email protected]
Best regards to everybody!
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