What do you think about NATS ?

[Opti]

As an affiliate, I'd trust a program running NATS over a program running MPA4, purely based on NATS promoting themselves as unshavable... and the type of program owner that would be attracted to use it 'despite' that feature.

I'd be interested to know if/why some NATS sponsors don't show accurate click counts though. (any chance some programs have a way to count 2nd page uniques with NATS?)

Low click counts may not necesarily mean shaved signups too.

[ClickBuster]

Originally Posted by Opti

As an affiliate, I'd trust a program running NATS over a program running MPA4, purely based on NATS promoting themselves as unshavable... and the type of program owner that would be attracted to use it 'despite' that feature.

...

Not arguing it isn't true... I just can't think of a logical reason how the affiliate managment software could affect the signup ratio that much.

Opti, one of the reasons that people are seeing differences in stats and bad ratios is the fact that NATS tracks only with cookies. How to check this? A simple PHP script can prove this.

<?php
set_time_limit(0);
for ( $i = 0; $i < 100; $i++ )
  file ('YOUR_NATS_CODE_HERE');
?>

This will track 100 unique hits in your account. If you try this on MPA, it won't work, because it tracks with both cookies and database.

-- Andrew

[seoguy]

Originally Posted by ClickBuster

Opti, one of the reasons that people are seeing differences in stats and bad ratios is the fact that NATS tracks only with cookies. How to check this? A simple PHP script can prove this.

<?php
set_time_limit(0);
for ( $i = 0; $i < 100; $i++ )
  file ('YOUR_NATS_CODE_HERE');
?>

This will track 100 unique hits in your account. If you try this on MPA, it won't work, because it tracks with both cookies and database.

-- Andrew

hey,

could you tell sme (i don't know anything about scripting and so) if this is good or bad :-)

[ClickBuster]

Originally Posted by seoguy

hey,

could you tell sme (i don't know anything about scripting and so) if this is good or bad :-)

Well if the surfer's browser does not support cookies or they're turned off - you lose the sale - now you tell me, is it good or bad?

[swedguy]

Originally Posted by ClickBuster

Well if the surfer's browser does not support cookies or they're turned off - you lose the sale - now you tell me, is it good or bad?

The wm ID is still in the query string and follow through on all the pages = you will still get a sale.