what the hell makes sponsors think its acceptable to not display 1st page hits? why do webmasters put up with this?
the purpose of this post isn't to call out individual sponsors.. but i look forward to seeing some screencaps of stats here.
sponsors fall into the following categories for representing traffic:
A) NATS or similar. 1st page raws, 1st page uniques, signups.
B) 1st page unique IPs.
C) 1st page "uniques". Whatever they decide is uniques, anyways. I usually seem to lose about 20% of my traffic here, versus about 1% in NATS raw->unique discrepancy.
D) 2nd page uniques. Useless. Might as well just not let me login, and send checks for random amounts.
E) Join page uniques. You have got to be kidding.
Put a stop to this shit. There's no reason I shouldn't be able to see:
1) 1st page raw. RAW. If I click the link 3 times, that's 3 raws.
2) 1st page uniques. The above, filtered for unique IP. (Proxys pass original IPs.)
3) 2nd page uniques.
4) Trailer views (where applicable)
5) Join page uniques.
6) CC Attempts
7) CC Fails (broken down by AVS reasons)
8) CC Approvals (Signups!)
Let's get the appropriate tools this industry deserves.
