It has come to my attention lately, that talking with some people and seeing their stats with different programs, that they don't realize their true stats.
A lot of programs only show JOIN PAGE HITS.
I'll take a recent example. Someone told me they are doing 1:10 free with us and 1:13 paid. He was complaining he does 1:4 free with one of our competitors and showed me they do 1:22 paid for him.
Now to him, this equates that he is doing 1:88 with them and 1:130 with us, TOTAL.
However once I realized that program only shows JPH, I let him know this. I tracked his individual JPH with us and found he does about 1:4 as well. Thus, I showed him that if our JPH:free ratio is the same as theirs and our paid is better, he makes more money with us.
He switched over all his traffic immediately and is making more money now
Now the questions I have for you is, how many more of you are being tricked in the same way ???????
I would think it's great for programs to show JPH to the affiliate, but they should also show uniques (and hey, even raws!). Otherwise, this is very deceptive (great from program's side, but bad for affiliate - then again, he should check his stats more carefully)
What do you guys think on this ????