15 hops in clickbank, 4 visits on google analytics?

Discussion in 'ClickBank' started by kinitex, Aug 15, 2008.

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    I am running the google analytics on all my sites and they are working fine on all but one, which is my own product. I get about 15-20 hops a day to it that I see in clickbank from a bunch of different affiliates, but my analytics only ever shows around 4 total visitors for the entire day. Reffering urls are ?hop=affiliatename and ?hop=0

    Where should I start looking for problems? I am no newb with html, or coding and I cant figure this one out...
     
    kinitex, Aug 15, 2008 IP
  2. Zibblu

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    I'm pretty sure that CB counts hops multiple times. In other words: if the same visitor clicks on a link multiple times, they count multiple hops. That would explain the discrepancy. In my experience with my own product I get more hops than unique visitors.
     
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    I also think clickbank hops may be recording some bots. I have some direct linking Yahoo Search Marketing campaigns paused and every few weeks or so a bunch of hops clock up for all the tracking IDs in my yahoo direct linking.

    If it also does this with google bot and the like, this would explain that.
     
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    mikey1090 Moderator Staff

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    Also remember Analytics needs the user to have javascript allowed on their browser to be able to track their visit.
     
    mikey1090, Aug 16, 2008 IP