I have a source of rather semi-productive traffic which I'm sending directly to sponsors. Some seem to count well, and some barely at all. Because of the variance I have decided to track it better.
This traffic source is the kind that would sign up to free trials and eventually end up opening their wallets. My best bet was to send it to *nameless sponsor* and get paid per click. When sending it to this sponsor I get about 10% of the real uniques sent. I was thinking ok well maybe it's my stats program. But then I decided to send it to dating gold and sure enough it was very accurate and in parallel to my own stats.
Now I understand the first company does CPC and would probably notch off a couple hits for their own interest, but they list about 10% of what I really send. I contacted their support on ICQ and all I got was a lecture about raws and uniques, and I'm getting confused between them - RIGHT! Their stats say 37k raws and 800 uniques.
Anyways, all this just to ask if it's common for sponsors to be a little slow with statistics and what I should do.
Cheers!
