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Discuss what's fucking going on, and which programs are best and worst. One-time "program" announcements from "established" webmasters are allowed. |
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i've got my flamesuit on......
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. ![]() |
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that seems reasonable to me would make it a lot harder to fuck us
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would shake things up in this industry for sure and i'm all for it
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yeah, all that would be real nice. especially the first page views and the cc failures.
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whine suit?
start a program, it is all an illusion ![]()
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![]() most programs are full of shit = illusion
seriously start a truly honest one yourself, maybe whistleblowerpornsponsor.com or something.. . the world isnt black and white, there are honest programs.. find them, don't worry about the rest
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what languages do you code? php, perl, c? vb or win apps?
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I have a good php coder, but he is busy can you actually output work or allot a certain amout of hours per week even just a few to start etc.. .
I am often busy mysellf.
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its how their stats are setup. so far the best stat system i like is traffic cash gold, i am not saying that cause they own all my traffic ;) but i love how they show trailer views, first page, 2nd page, join page. etc
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alias did you have something in mind? hit me up at 254342256.
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bump for good morning gfy
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At Adult Players Club we count first page raws and uniques. None of that 2nd page bullshit. We also track your referral URLs to signups along with the site name and campaign ID.
www.adultplayersclub.com
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Why don't you write the programming to do so...
I think it will take a new program coming out from the start with this. Problem is no one will pay any attention to them. |
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Like he mentioned earlier, we have no problems developing the software. Our problems comes that because we are new to adult, we do not have the relationships in place as of yet to get the application out to sponsors to try. We assume that most (all?) sponsors would be hard pressed to change what they've got now to a beta version of our platform. (Note to sponsors - if I am wrong about this, contact me on ICQ and let's discuss.) The folks who develop NATS could implement the viewing of the additional data in approximately two man-hours of code. That's not even two hours of maximum productivity. NATS seems to be the most trusted (!) solution on the market, and they have the ability, relationships, and infrastructure to shake it up by rolling out an update such as this. Another question that seemed to have fallen through the cracks - Why don't sponsors allow affiliates to see the IP and exact time of conversion? There's nothing inherently confidential about that data - in fact - it will help to optimize affiliate marketing.
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i think it depends on who you send your traffic too
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All Mike (studiocritic) was pushing for was more transparency from sponsors without compromising their business.
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Another person claiming what we can/can't do and how long it will take us.
You have no clue how NATS is built, how our company is run, etc. so please do not assume how long things will take us to do things. We're always improving NATS with what we feel is currently most important. If we felt trailer view counts were most important we would impliment that next. I appreciate the input and ideas but please do not run around saying we can do something in two hours. NATS is not a bunch of hacked together scripts as most things in this industry are. Things are done differently here for a reason.
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As a general note there are always going to be sponsors bullshitting on hit counts & such to fool webmasters since there will always be webmasters who will believe it and will base who they use simply on the ratio shown in stats. Ratios are a horrible way to compare programs to each other as they don't count the same. With custom solutions existing they will never count the same. It's a great idea but unfortunately not a feasable one. This industry will never cooperate on that level as not cooperating makes it easy for one party who doesn't care to one up the next guy.
If you're sending traffic to sponsors you should be counting ad clicks on your end this way you have a level playing field to compare how much you are sending to a specific spsonors. This however is not even perfect as one ad may draw 10x the interest that the next ad does. It comes down to the ratio how much effort/real estate you put in compared to the return you get.
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I've been a programmer for years. I understand/assume that NATS is well written. Thus, 2 hours is overshooting the target for such extra transparency and reporting.
And out of all that studiocritic listed, you chose... Trailer Views... of which is the least important by most accounts. However, #5, 6, and 7 are quite helpful. Again, NATS is the closest to the goal of more transparency, it has the trust and relationships in place to make this industry more honest and trustworthy. You need not be on the defensive as you were not being attacked, but being called out to help the cause of making this industry better.
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It has always been my advice to webmasters to track their own outgoing raw clicks. That is what we do with our traffic. All of our outbound traffic is based on a VPC ( Value per Click). Who ever has the highest VPC gets the most traffic. ![]() |
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Nothing that you can say or do will force this change. Get over it and get on with life.
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making the adult industry honest would leave about 8 sponsors online
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Hi wzl,
NATS is written in a very strict manner and is very strictly version controlled. A this big change, which involves changes in member templates, the stats engine and similar things will not be done in 2 hours, thats what breaks stuff. This kind of thing would be done in a main version release most likely. While I agree #5, #6, #7 is interesting, there are much more things we can offer to affiliates which are more important to them right now, especially #6 and #7. Also, #5 is already doable, as is #3 and #4, but its only one-at-a-time right now, so you would have to choose one of 3-5 to actually do. One more thing that totally messes up your whole 2 hour theory is, what do you exactly call a CC attempt, what a CC failure? Is an attempt every single try for each biller in the cascade? Is a failure every single failure for each biller in the cascade? Do we want attempts and failures for non CC transactions? If not, why not? If yes, for which? Also, can we TRACK attempts and FAILURES and even then AVS REASON, or what I would guess makes more sense is failure reason, for each of the over 25 billers we support? Will billers that can not track failures or failure reasons mess up the value of these stats? Now, all those questions above need to be answered before we can even START and for many of them each of our clients will have a different oppinion, so they will start asking us to make it possible to turn off some of these settings and not track those that can not track a reason for example, and similar things. Now this again causes discrepencies in our client's stats which people will get confused about and the whole point of this idea went out of the window. All that the above was ment to show is that nothing always is as easy as it seems.
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The more detail, good for us.
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So, hire a progger, and build it. Think of what you could do here.
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