will76

I am curious. How many of you just do a lot of work, check stats and are happy to get signups but dont know which one of your traffic sources is producing the sale?

I recently signed up to a lot of affiliate programs and how in the hell do you guys track your stats ? I see some programs provide campaigns but not all of them. Some just show , # hits and # sales and that's it... wtf ?

Even the sites that offer campaigns, you have to log into each program, create a new campaign, fix your links, for each traffic source. So you have a linklist with 100 programs and 1000s of sites on it, and you have 10 different traffic sources, that could take weeks editing all those links. There is no way you have any idea if google does better for you vs yahoo, or msn, or if you buying bulk from someone, how do you know if you are making or losing money on the deal ???? this is insaine. how do people do business like this ?

This is new to me because in the past, for the most part I have used clickcash which gives you the url the person signed up from, their ip, hell I even get to see what type of browser the person is using (which is nice in calculating how much you losing to spyware agents). Or I have used ibill for my own sites (before they went to shit) and I was able to track my own campaigns. When i have used other companies in the past usually it was on 1 site for 1 traffic source so it wasn't a big deal.

Two ways to fix this problem:

In the affiliate stats show the ip address of the signups or in the affiliate stats show the full url of the page the signup cam from with some type of dynamic subid= on the end that we can put to anything. If i want to subid=campaign1 whatever i can do this on my end without having to log into your program and creating a new "campaign".

If anyone else has any suggestions please share. I am surprised it is 2007 and there hasn't been a solution for this yet or more people demanding something be done to make things better. If affiliate companies don't want to offer extensive stats tracking fine, just give me the damn ip and i can do all the programming on my end to track everything. By allowing me to see the ip on the signups it would take me about 30 seconds to set up stuff on my end to track 100,000 different affiliate programs, all the way down to each exact source it came from, and know exactly where each signup came from. It's not that hard to do at all.

So why wont affiliate programs provide this information to their affiliates. If we know what works and what doesn't which would allow us to get a better ROI and maximize the traffic that works the best, don't ya think that benefits you too ?

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