Originally Posted by signupdamnit

One thing to consider when switching from CCBill to Nats tracking is how often under CCBill affiliates will send to refer.ccbill.com directly for galleries. That has the effect of counting the gallery click as a normal hit. When you move to Nats if the send instead to the Nats url it only counts as a regular click if they click the sponsor link. You have to be careful there to not compare apples to oranges when it comes to ratios. This also has the effect of hurting an affiliate who originally sent traffic directly to refer.ccbill.com because as I understand it the cookie doesn't get set by Nats in the same way. This difference can end up helping the sponsor who now gets credit for more type ins without having to pay the affiliate. Some might say good but sending directly to refer.ccbill.com for galleries is one way to counter the trend of sponsors putting huge urls on the galleries or content. If the surfer does a type in after seeing the url the affiliate still gets credit since they have their cookie set. If they don't send to refer.ccbill.com the cookie is not set unless the surfer clicks the sponsor link on the gallery.