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Originally Posted by Okidoki
Great stats Marc, as usual.
What I still don't get, why we, 'the affiliates' as a group, don't demand that each sponsor shows the same type of hits in their stats. I don't mind if they show 1st, 2nd or join page hits, as long as I can compare them with other sponsors. I personally only care how many clicks/ uniques I send to a sponsor and how much money I make with that traffic.
Now I can't compare jack. They can try to create a smokescreen, but soon I will just get myself a click log script, so I can see how much traffic a sponsor gets and makes me and then act accordingly. Maybe we all should do the same. This will be harder to do with galleries, but its a start.
Pierre
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It's an impossible task to streamline sponsor reported stats. The only way is as you say, to track it yourself. I'd be nervous that my "tracker" might go down for a few hours and no one could reach the sponsors.
I just don't worry about specifics. I know which spots on my site send the most traffic and the sponsors that consistantly send me big checks and "seem" to convert well get those spots.
marc