Is clickbank tracking 'Tracking ID' perfectly?

hello,
I have placed 'tracking ID' for all the clickbank hop links in our clickbank Mall.
But, when I go to the analytics page in my clickbank account and check the clicks received according to tracking IDs, I find hundreds of clicks everyday with no tracking IDs.
Also, I never got any sale from those clicks with no tracking ids.
All my sales are with clicks that have tracking id.

Do you think clickbank is tracking this 'Tracking ID' perfectly?

Thank you

 

Never had a problem with tracking or no tracking.

 

If you doubt clickbanks numbers you can do what I did:

1) Create a pretty url to a script in your .htaccess

ie: RewriteRule tv2pc/(.*) tv2pc.php

2) Make the script record clicks in a database and do a redirect to your clickbank url. If you want to use my script, replace 3823144984 with your ip, AS A BASE 10 INTEGER - then when you click your own link, it will show you the stats page instead:

[pre]
<?php
mysql_select_db("cbstats", mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "password"));

function ip2num($ip){
$parts = explode('.', $ip);
$value = 0;
$exp = 0;

foreach($parts as $part)
$value += $part * pow(256, $exp++);

return $value;
}

$ip = ip2num($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);

if($ip != 3823144984){
mysql_query("insert into stats (`created`, `ip`) values ('".floor(time()/86400)."', '$ip')");
header("Location: http://tibberous.ipodpsp.hop.clickbank.net");
//echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://tibberous.ipodpsp.hop.clickbank.net">';
die();
} else {
$today = floor(time()/86400);
$ranges = array("Today", "Yesterday", "This Week", "All Time");
$rangeCond = array(" where created='$today'", " where created='".($today-1)."'", " where created>'".($today-7)."'", "");

for($t=0; $ranges[$t]; $t++){
$result = mysql_query("select count(*) as `count`, count(DISTINCT ip) as `unique` from stats".$rangeCond[$t]);

echo "<b>Stats for {$ranges[$t]}</b><br>";
echo "Outs: ".mysql_result($result, 0, 'count')."<br>";
echo "Unique: ".mysql_result($result, 0, 'unique')."<br>";
echo "<br>";
}
}
?>
[/pre]

 

Hello tibberous,
Thank you for the script.
I will try it.

 

Yup! After 2 years online, I am sure about something... Affiliate tracking will always have some problem, and affiliates will always lose sales.

That's the way it is, there's nothing we can do. We just have to sell more!

 

I started using Clickbank tracking yesterday. No sales so far. I'll watch how it works.

 

I am also getting a lot of hops without tracking ids. Could these be bots?

 

Even if bots crawl the hoplinks, I think tracking id should work.

 

I tried it, seems to work ok

 

I never see any indication of how many clickthrus I have on my clickbank. Haven't made any sales with CB just yet and would like to see how many people are actually clicking through. Even when I once set it to a surf program for unique clicks. There was never any clicks recorded. It would be nice to know.

How do you actually see the number of clicks? Do you have to make a sale first??

 

Hello,
You do not need to make sales in order to find the number of clicks received by your hoplinks.
go to your account,
Reporting
Analytics
affiliate reporting

 

tibberous...please help I dont get it. Im just trying to add an tracking code to my hoplink in clickbanks format.
how can I do that?

 

It seems to track most of it for me but once in a while when I get traffic surges, I suspect something is missing too

 

If you were not using them before, but just added them you will find a few strange hops from people who visited before and then returned to the product after you added the tracking, the previous cookie (without tracking) would still be valid. Shouldn't last too long.

This is my experience.