slow stats counting sponsors
 

I have a source of rather semi-productive traffic which I'm sending directly to sponsors. Some seem to count well, and some barely at all. Because of the variance I have decided to track it better.

This traffic source is the kind that would sign up to free trials and eventually end up opening their wallets. My best bet was to send it to *nameless sponsor* and get paid per click. When sending it to this sponsor I get about 10% of the real uniques sent. I was thinking ok well maybe it's my stats program. But then I decided to send it to dating gold and sure enough it was very accurate and in parallel to my own stats.

Now I understand the first company does CPC and would probably notch off a couple hits for their own interest, but they list about 10% of what I really send. I contacted their support on ICQ and all I got was a lecture about raws and uniques, and I'm getting confused between them - RIGHT! Their stats say 37k raws and 800 uniques.

Anyways, all this just to ask if it's common for sponsors to be a little slow with statistics and what I should do.

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did you maybe consider they might only track clicks to joinpage, and not the first load of the page?

Without knowing the sponsor and their terms, it's impossible to say. Ebus is right, make sure you don't assume all sponsors count your traffic the same way. We count and show first page raw and uniques so you can have a better handle on your traffic. But we're also a revshare program. On a PPC program, I can see the use of a qualified hit to keep down fraud and dumping of unproductive clicks.

But regardless, you should be able to see all of your traffic just so you can compare your traffic figures. What hits is their payment based on..... first page uniques, second page, join page, etc???

Why dont you name the sponsor?

Because last time I mentionned its sister company and got blasted.

But it's AFF