I've only been in affilliate marketing for a few months. Actually, I started in April, tried it for about a month and quit (that's a different story). In June I started again with a little more knowledge, but still no success until a couple weeks ago, I've finally started making some sales. I've been doing direct linking with PPC. I guess I've gotten a little better at it but I'm nowhere near breaking even. Okay, I'll get to my question now. Why is it that my CJ stats (impressions, clicks and CTR) never match up with Yahoo's stats? I've used Yahoo Marketing and Google Adwords and I noticed the same thing at both places. They show me having hundreds of thousands of impressions while CJ shows about 20,000. The same with clicks, CJ shows way less than Yahoo or Google. Of course, the CTR's are completely different, too. Also, neither shows any conversions, yet I've had 12 sales in the last 2 weeks. Is there some reasonable explaination for the different stats?
I do not know the exact reason. But even I have noticed, may not be in CJ. The stats always differ from each other