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Originally Posted by xxxjay
First, you do a lot better and more thorough job on your stats than I. As far as the mixing goes, I think it is a totally smart thing to do in some instances. Take a program like Bangbros that has ome older sites with a shit-ton of episodes. I find those work out better Revshare ON THE OLDER SITES with more content...there is so much there the people stay forever. For the newer Bangbros sites I just run with the PPS becasue they doon't have a good of a retention. When the two are "blended" it makes for some nice sized checks showing up.
I would love to have the time to break down everything as you said, but these stats are not the bible. If you are submitting free sites to me...they are of use to webmasters becasue they know what is converting. I wish revstats still worked so I could drill down to single sites more than Statsremote does....
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Bang Bros stats interface is HORRIBLE for anyone that's looking at their stats & wondering what their per click numbers are because you can't separate the PPS totals from the revshare totals. I'm probably going to leave them off any upcoming stats runs that I do because of this. But can you see how even just one trial sale for $2.47 would throw off your per click numbers?
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Originally Posted by xxxjay
Ok, say with moneycashmegabankmoneybucksbing I did 30 sales over a nine month period. Say 15 were 5$ trials and didn't rebill (37.50)$. That would be $37.50 on those initials. Then say 15 went to full joins ($225) and then of those 15 that 10 went to retain for an average of 3 months ($15 x 3 x 10 = $450). So we have $37.50 off the batch of crappy trial hoppers, $225 from the initials, and $450 from the rebills for a total of base number of $712.5....then you divide that by the number of initials (30) and you arrive at $23.75. Then you divide the $23.75 by the number of hits it took to make that sale and you have a value per click. So, in this case you would be better off taking a PPS for $30 if everything converted the same, but say that the revshare coverted 50% well as the PPS (mind you, this is all hypothical)...then you would make $35.62 on the same number of outgoing hits. The conversion ratio factors heavily into this....
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Ok - now that makes sense! You threw me with the "...and factored in the # of months so I had an average number to work with..." statement since you didn't say how the months were factored in. This makes complete sense
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Originally Posted by xxxjay
I used statsremote to figure that one out. I will have to investigate further. Thanks for the 411.
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That would make sense. I don't use a stats program anymore, but I assume that State Remote does keep the totals for the previous month so I apologize for this comment.
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Originally Posted by xxxjay
If my list is useless, it is no more useless than yours, hoes.com, onprobation or anyone else that post stats.
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Aside from the 1st few months back in 2002, I have tried my best to not mix & match the PPS & revshare totals (1st revshare totals that I've posted in the last 4 years came out last month)
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Originally Posted by xxxjay
Yes, I have taken time to try to factor these things, but it is not as simple as "this guy counts first" and "this guy counts second", some programs don't show hits from counrties they can't bill for, so programs don't display hits from certians IPs ect, some programs just plain shave...I could make a career out of just studying that shit if I wanted, but I'd rather not.
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I agree it's not an exact science, but you know that some of those programs count 1st & some of them count 2nd & you can easily sort them out that way instead of ranking them by the per click totals which are off because they are not based on the same factors. A 2nd page program might come in at 8 cents a click & a 1st page program comes in a 5 cents, but if the 1st page clicks were known for the 2nd page program, they might be at 3 or 4 cents a click & thus, worse than the 5 cent 1st page program. Make sense?
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Originally Posted by xxxjay
I am in beta with some new software (Captianstats) that is a desk based program that can equalize the numbers automaticly based on what is known about the programs hit counting (and no, it isn't my software) -- there were still bugs in it when I published these stats, so I couldn't use it. Anyone can hit me up if they want to try a beta copy (it's free) - I'll put you in touch with the guys that are coding it.
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Of course I'm interested in something like that
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Originally Posted by xxxjay
I make sales. Checks show up. I know the numbers are badly skewed, but it's the money that matters at the end of the day.
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The just post everyone in alphabetical order so that you're not leading people to believe that the ranking are accurate - that's really all I'm saying in this
