Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Greenguy
I just remember what my thought process was 
This applies to any & all programs using CCBill - I would have to use the CCBill stats as I know they are all counted the same across the board & thus, it makes for better stats when others compare their CCBill totals to my CCBill totals. |
Actually we are not a CCBill only sponsor, and you use CCBill and Paycom both with us. If CCBill declines a transaction it cascades to Paycom. or you can choose whichever one you prefer as primary in your admin with one click. We use CCBill as the primary default setting as most people prefer them.
As far as CCBill stats go, they do not count uniques. All of their stats are based on non unique clickthroughs. A piss poor system IMO. This is why you hear so many people complain that all their CCBill sponsors usually have such high ratios.
I'll explain a little further so everyone reading this can understand a little more easily if they are having a problem.
http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clic...0000&PA=620577
The above is the standard CCbill linking code that most CCbill only sponsors use. Each time that is clicked a "click" is registered in CCBill's stats. So this means that when a surfer is viewing a gallery or a free site and clicks a link through to the tour that a click is registered.
Now I make our FHG's and HFS's very aggressive, meaning that I have a lot of tour links strategically placed throughout the galleries. Each surfer clicks on these several times. Some more some less but usually more than once none the less. Each time registering a clickthrough, then backing up to finish looking at the free stuff before finally sign up.
Now with the linking code that we (BVCASH) use looks like so:
http://www.bikinivoyeur.com/affil.php?affilid=147
This also is the linking code style that you use for our sites. It does not register clicks in CCBIll's stats, only sales. So this is why I am sort of baffled how you say you are getting click numbers from CCBills stats. I assume you are getting them from StatsRemote which must track both clickthroughs and uniques from our program. Maybe you can help fill me in here as I don't have a stats remote acct. I do know that Marc from Hoes.com uses stats remote and his ratios that he posts on
www.hoes.com/sponsors match up with what I see for his uniques in the BVCash admin.
But the most important thing to remember here is that if you or anyone else are going to look in your CCBIlls administration area for your CCBill only sponsors stats, remember that those clicks you are seeing are not UNIQUE clicks. So if you show 1000 clicks to a sponsor and 1 sale, more than likely in reality you only sent 500 unique visitors, and that's being conservative.
I know this was a long read but hopefully I shed a little light and I'd be interested in knowing if you actually see any clicks for me at all in your CCBill admin or are they coming from Stats Remote.
Cheers and thanks again for the great traffic and sales!
BV