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Why We Are Here => Monetization => Topic started by: Rooftop on August 01, 2011, 03:14:53 PM
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We don't do a great deal of affiliate stuff, but we've been fixing some old neglected affiliate site lately. I'm quickly being reminded at what an epic pain in the arse the network sites are to use.
Was looking for a piece of software that would allow a non-techie to keep an eye on earnings based on referring site/click ref very simply . Trying to get anything like comparable data across even just the big networks seems to take a whole day. Daft.
Have found attmeter.com and niftystats.com - both sounds like what we are looking for. However I don't know either. Anyone used them and have feedback or know anything similar?
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Just as a bit of an aside as you were mentioning how much of a pain it is to deal with networks, have you thought about using skimlinks?
You'll lose 25% of commissions but it would be a hell of a lot less of a hassle to deal with. Just my tuppence worth...
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for 25% we'll live with the hassle ;) Interesting though.
been looking at affjet. They seem completely phobic about giving prices. That's a shame as it looks like a good solution for what we're looking for.
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I know what you mean, 25% is a huge wodge of anyone's cash. Skimlinks are a nice proposition for some business models but not all.
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Nice if you are seeing them as an additional source of revenue I guess. Bit pricey otherwise.
Just to settle my completionist tendencies - here are the affiliate reporting systems I found and looked at:
nifty stats : $20/month. Looked very much like aff meter. Couldn't verify which programs were supported so haven't looked at this any further
aff meter : $15/month. Didn't seem to handle the differences between pending and confirmed transations very well. Very slow to use if lots of individual transactions
affjet : Looks interesting, but won't tell you pricing until you've signed up (even if you ask), which is dodgy in my book.
stats remote : $30/month - can install on mulitple systems as long as you use 1 at a time. looks interesting - will be coming back to this
Might give affjet a shout in a few weeks. Apparently they are nearly ready to announce pricing ! (Funny - seems to have been running for some time - pretty sure I contacted them with the same question 2 years ago). Would prefer a SAAS service really to save downloading data to multiple systems.
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We've rolled our own to cope with the Euro networks. Nothing out there did it for us.
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I have been a heavy user of stats remote for years. Well worth the price.
The guys there are great and will ad a program to it if you ask.