[housekeeper]

After checking through many of my programs, the majority of them use the two step sign up process. I would suspect there is a way to check the tracking code or modify it in some way once the customer gets to the check out, as there has to be some sign ups along the way. The 'join hits' and 'join submits' links in the stats pages are blocked out, there's no way to check the link on those pages.

I can trace this back perhaps a year ago, which is around the time sites started using this type of sign up, it's been about a year since I've had any conversions on some of these programs. When I started seeing more consistent sign-ups on sites that still used the old CCB sign-up scripts, I said to myself Hmmm. So in essence, affiliates are not so much sending sites traffic and potential customers, we're padding their e-mail list for their discount e-mail marketing schemes.