A one stop solution for stats?

[gruvr777]

I need a one stop solution to get sponser stats. Is there any such thing in existance? I can get all my CCBill sponser stats at their main site, but getting the others is just tedious. Spam me with the answer if you have one.
Thanks

[gruvr777]

Anyone...? I know I have heard of this somewhere before. Would appreciate a bump in the right direction.

[secreturges]

I know of a way... (Bit of a hack though)

There's a cool tool called "curl"...

Now many test engines (Site testers like mralert.com) use something like this... to inspect your site for specific content...

There are also many more functions that allow it to use multiple URLS and perform a transaction (Like logging in the other vendors tedious UI) and the final output can be passed through parsers (similar to a search engine spider) that can categorize the text into something meaningful... (Clicks, Signups, Commissions, etc...)

Now, there are tools like this out there, but they may or may not be already set up for your affiliate programs, so I would suggest you search for:

curl based text classification program

The half baked / half hacked type of solution that this is, means you would have to be willing / capable of "tweaking" the code to re-use it. It is not hard, but it is not a good first project either ;-)

If you need a more "Turn-Key" solution, this can probably be easily farmed out to a company in India or Russia, done in a week, and set you back $150 to $250 as a one time expense...

Here's my recommendation:

Go to http://www.elance.com (We've done over $30,000 in business with them in 2005) and they're reputable.

In usually about ten to 15 minutes, thousands of companies all over the world will be bidding for your business... Several of those companies have this code working already and can simply tweak it for you in a day or so... and you get a full solution.

Cultural Differences:
China - Don't accept bids... (Govt. Issues with adult content)
India - Excellent with design, UI, and customer relationship focused. Technically less desireable...
Russia - Technically unbeatable, but only accept bids if you are confident you can document exactly what you need... (And I mean exactly)
Romania, and others... - Generally a good bet.
USA / UK - Will be super high unless it is a hobbyist...

Good luck! Let me know if this was helpful or just meaningless banter

Lee Markham
http://www.secreturges.com/contact.php

[gruvr777]

Here it is. I found it. I knew it was on GFY somewhere. For anyone who is interested, sounds like a great tool. And Unified Stats is Free!

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=533263