Sponsor Quetion?

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Originally Posted by Rcourt64

I'd like to know how come different sponsor track hits in different way?

Some track hit to sign up page? some track hits to galleries? then CCbill tracks a different way? Some just track unique hits others raw hits? and then some break it down into so many different ways, its even more confusing? I've ask a few webmaster and they reply with:
"I dunno, each sponsor is different, and I just look my sales" is what they say.
So is there a page provided by each sponsor that explains how & other info that hits are tracked?
The reason I ask is because I see sites with a PR ranking and look at site the stats hits show one number, but sponsors show a totally different number?

Anybody???

just imho here. There are no set rules on how to track hits. Back in the day you usually saw just raw and unique and sales (and even that is tenuous as hell when you start trying to break out AOL and others that have their own cache servers between the surfer and the site). So, I would guess that each sponsor does what they think will be most advatageous to themselves. I have not seen any explanations fully laid out on sponsor pages (there might be stuff in the faqs or some such) so I basically go with the most important stat being the checks that get to my mailbox.

Personally, I run some custom tracking stuff to keep track of what I sent where and how it did, if a sponsors numbers look to me like I am being ripped, and the check does not justify staying with them I just pull the links and move on.