ClickBank Analytics Just About Useless?

brockbraddock · 10-15-2008, 11:35 AM

It's great that ClickBank provides some basic analytics on clicks to my site but has anyone else noticed the reported hops are highly inflated? ClickBank reports about 250% more visitors then Google Analytics for one of my sites PLUS there are always two or three affiliates who are sending crap traffic. For example this months I have these three bozos showing up in my stats:

AFF #1 -- 1797 hops
AFF #2 -- 3962 hops
AFF #3 -- 9207 hops

The traffic from these three are staying an average of 3 seconds and have resulted in 0 sales. Average site visit is over 1 minute and average conversion is 2% so I know these are redirected or machine generated visits.

Just wondering if anyone else is having a similar issue.

Brock

lassitermarketing · 10-15-2008, 11:51 AM

I've noticed that too. I don't even pay attention to CB analytics. It's not accurate IMO.

brockbraddock · 10-15-2008, 12:21 PM

Too bad through really. They SHOULD be the most accurate of all since they are involved from soup to nuts in the entire process.

Brock

Alexa Smith · 10-15-2008, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by brockbraddock

Average site visit is over 1 minute and average conversion is 2% so I know these are redirected or machine generated visits.

How strange. What would anyone's incentive or potential gain be to send such crap "traffic"?

alexshelton · 10-15-2008, 12:36 PM

This is the other type of paid traffic we were talking about alexa, the crap stuff

billnad · 10-15-2008, 12:53 PM

I believe that one of the things that Clickbank accepts as a visit is a link followed by a search engine.

I have one of those "Clickbank Malls" and find that sometimes I will have a couple clickthoughs for 200 or so products in an hour when realistically it should only be 20 or so in an hour through the regular user clickthroughs.

Take this into account and maybe you can get a better idea. Google Analytics for landing pages is a lot more accurate to know how many people came to your page

precious007 · 10-15-2008, 01:03 PM

My stats are the same according to google analytics and CB analytics, never had these kind of issues.

brockbraddock · 10-15-2008, 03:15 PM

I think it could be cookie stuffing where the affiliate is pushing out a bunch of clickbank affiliate cookies onto his visitors computers without them knowing it. Then if one just happens to go to the publisher website and places an order they will get the commission provided the user doesn't go through another affiliate link first.

Brock

brockbraddock · 10-15-2008, 03:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by precious007

My stats are the same according to google analytics and CB analytics, never had these kind of issues.

How many "hops" did you have to your website for the past 30 days?

Brock

10-15-2008, 11:35 AM	#1
brockbraddock The Lazy Warrior Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Charlotte, NC Posts: 33 Thanks: 1 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	ClickBank Analytics Just About Useless? It's great that ClickBank provides some basic analytics on clicks to my site but has anyone else noticed the reported hops are highly inflated? ClickBank reports about 250% more visitors then Google Analytics for one of my sites PLUS there are always two or three affiliates who are sending crap traffic. For example this months I have these three bozos showing up in my stats: AFF #1 -- 1797 hops AFF #2 -- 3962 hops AFF #3 -- 9207 hops The traffic from these three are staying an average of 3 seconds and have resulted in 0 sales. Average site visit is over 1 minute and average conversion is 2% so I know these are redirected or machine generated visits. Just wondering if anyone else is having a similar issue. Brock
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brockbraddock The Lazy Warrior Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Charlotte, NC Posts: 33 Thanks: 1 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: ClickBank Analytics Just About Useless? I think it could be cookie stuffing where the affiliate is pushing out a bunch of clickbank affiliate cookies onto his visitors computers without them knowing it. Then if one just happens to go to the publisher website and places an order they will get the commission provided the user doesn't go through another affiliate link first. Brock
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