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Originally Posted by Greenguy

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?

True, their stats are not the best. That's why I opted for the longer time period instead of just one month (9 months)....then I just took the total amout of money in and divided it by the numbers of sales. As far as mixing the rev and the PPS...I can see where tracking it can be a pain, but there is something nice about a nice base of PPS with rebills coming in on top. Then you don't go "dry" on a bad month.

Originally Posted by Greenguy

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

Thanks, I should have explained it better the first time. I blame my fear of calculators.

Originally Posted by Greenguy

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.

I was a bigger fan Revstats. You don't do everything by hand now...do you? That's alot of work.

Originally Posted by Greenguy

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)

That cool. I don't really worry about trials, no trials, revshare, or pps...its mostly about whatever convert and whatever earns...which is all that really matters at the end of the day anyway.

Originally Posted by Greenguy

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?

You know...there really should be some kind of regulation of all this shit. Even though I would hate to see the goverment do it. It would be like if you went to the market and bought steak...they don't have 5 different ways of wieghing the thing...they have one. I really hate that programs have to fudge numbers to try to appear better to webmasters. It is deceptive and even when you think you know something about a program...then you find out you really don't.

Of course I'm interested in something like that

I'll keep you in the loop.

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

Hoppefully, if this software works like its supposed to...it will eliminate the guesswork and we can all see some real numbers that mean something.