Why do so many affiliate programs have crappy stats systems?

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  • J B
    Confirmed User
    • May 2002
    • 1804
    #1

    Why do so many affiliate programs have crappy stats systems?

    Just two examples:

    1.) They only provide this month's stats and all-time stats... no daily stats, no previous months' stats, no custom periods, nothing... how are you supposed to track your traffic and sales properly with such stats?

    2.) They only provide daily stats for individual sites/products but no daily totals, so it's not even possible to check yesterday's totals. What if you promote 20 or 30 sites/products and want to know how you did yesterday, last week, etc?

    Actually in adult it's not as bad as in mainstrean and I don't mean to offend anybody. It just seems like the programmers often have no idea what affiliates need to track their traffic and sales properly.


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    • Steen2
      Confirmed User
      • Feb 2004
      • 7662
      #2
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        • Sosa
          In Tushy Land
          • Oct 2002
          • 40149
          #3
          programs should really have a kickass stats program with referring urls, days stats, week stats, monthly stats, yearly etc. So you can compare all the time.

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            • CynthiaB
              Confirmed User
              • Mar 2005
              • 1274
              #4
              I'd be happy just to see the clickthroughs but half the sites I've seen don't even have that. I know people complain about ccBill but at least there's some information there.

              Cyn

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                • simple simon
                  Confirmed User
                  • Jan 2005
                  • 854
                  #5
                  adultfriendfinder has the absolute, most archaic circa 1997 stats I know of. The absolute worst cluster fuck, and your supposed to just keep sending traffic, and dont give me that sub id bullshit, that works for the first month, but doesnt seperate the rebills or new sales for the next month. How in the fuck does one know if paid advertising is working? You dont, thats the answer
                  SIG TOO BIG! Maximum 120x60 button and no more than 3 text lines of DEFAULT SIZE and COLOR. Unless your sig is for a GFY top banner sponsor, you may use a 624x80 instead of a 120x60. Let me repeat... A 120 x 60 button and no more that 3 lines of DEFAULT SIZE AND COLOR text.

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                    • darnoth
                      Confirmed User
                      • Jan 2005
                      • 105
                      #6
                      Heh I complained quite a bit about AFF as well, in particular the rebills.. when an answer was finally given it was "Affiliates are wrong, knowing if an order is recurring or not is useless information".

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                        • BV
                          wtf
                          • Sep 2001
                          • 10914
                          #7
                          i must say we have some kick ass stats

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                            • TheSenator
                              Too lazy to set a custom title
                              • Feb 2003
                              • 13330
                              #8
                              Check out my sig...... There stats are the best I have seen in a long time.
                              ISeekGirls.com since 2005

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                                • SleazyDream
                                  I'm here for SPORT
                                  • Jul 2001
                                  • 41470
                                  #9
                                  i assume this JB isn't the real JB?
                                  This dog, is dog, a dog, good dog, way dog, to dog, keep dog, an dog, idiot dog, busy dog, for dog, 20 dog, seconds dog!

                                  Now read without the word dog.

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                                    • J B
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • May 2002
                                      • 1804
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by SleazyDream
                                      i assume this JB isn't the real JB?
                                      Well, I've been using the handle JB for more than 10 years. I guess you're referring to JB from TCG and that's obviously not me


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                                        • Tango
                                          Let's Tango!
                                          • Apr 2005
                                          • 1570
                                          #11
                                          lack of quality programmers - only as strong as your strongest programming resource - inhouse or outsourced
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                                            • J B
                                              Confirmed User
                                              • May 2002
                                              • 1804
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by Tango
                                              lack of quality programmers - only as strong as your strongest programming resource - inhouse or outsourced
                                              Well, to be fair it's not necessarily the programmers' fault. Many times they just do what they're told. I think I should have said 'It just seems like the people in charge often have no idea what affiliates need to track their traffic and sales properly.'


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