Has anyone noticed anything odd about the amount of conversions you show with google tracking and actual sales. Now this would apply only to people who have their tracking code on a merchants thank you page. the reason i am asking is that I have had some very strange results the last few days. I have a product that I sale around 30 a day. My google tracking has been showing like 45 and 50 a day the last few days. I am nervous that I am somehow losing a lot of sales. I have contacted clickbank but they say they cant verify the accuracy of googles tracking. Does anyone know of a way that the tracking can be wrong? Or am I in fact losing that many sales. Another thing that is odd about it is that most of the "conversions" that are not showing up happen between 6 and 9 pm. If someone has experience with this, please clue me in.
that is a good idea but it is not my thank you page. It is for a merchant I promote. It actually attributes a conversion to a keyword so it is going through my landing page. I don't know how solid googles script is. I thought maybe if someone came to my landing page, clicked through, bought the product and maybe went back to the thank you page for whatever reason it may count it as two separate buys. I wouldnt think this is likely but wondered if it is a possibility.
The only place the Google Conversion Code (read not Google Analytics) should be placed is on the page returned to the customer after a sale is completed. (Merchants thankyoupage.htm for example) Placing conversion code elsewhere would lead to inaccurate numbers. I use Googles Conversion code with a Clickbank merchant who places the code on their thank you page and my stats are perfect at 1:1 Nothing wrong with Google other than your implementation of their conversion code.
I heard someone over at the warrior forum saying that usually only 30% of the traffic on your thankyou page will be from actual conversions.
Well I am sure that could be true, if the page can be indexed by search engines or found some other way.... but if its properly secured it should not be the case. The next issue is that in order for Google to count the conversion someone would have to click a Google Ad..... So its highly unlikely someone clicks a Google ad, visits the offer....does not make a purchase....and then types in the thankyou page URL...... That would be a lot of work just to skew someones Clickbank conversion numbers.....
I think what happens is that each time a buyer visits the download page to download the product Google counts it as a conversion and one buyer can visit 100 times and it might count as 100 sales. Just guessing though
I assure you my implementation of the google tracking code is correct. I have my conversion code on several merchants thank you pages. Most of them are accurate. However, the most sales I typically get from the other merchants is 3-5/day. This leaves a lot less opportunity for issues. On the one I am having issue with, I get 30+ sales per day. i had thought that it was people returning to the thank you page more than once but I have had conversion code on this merchant for over 3 months and just started noticing a big issue lately. In the past it might be off by 1 or 2 but here lately much greater.
I don't have the volume of sales you have but usually clickbank doesnt track some sales here and there. Some times you can have up to 50% missing tracking if you have a highly competitive keyword. Even the keywords were theres no competition I'll miss like 10% of the sales. Usually when everyones posting "clickbank sucks threads" they seem to be a lot higher. Do you have a lot of competition with your keywords?
Interesting..... I wonder if you need to switch to the new conversion code they (Google) are using???? Also what do your server stats tell you with regards to the number of people hitting your thankyou page?? If the number of visitors is the same as your sales.... then thats not the issue and if you have more visitors than sales then you know where a part of the problem seems to lie. Might want to use a 3rd party tracker on that page.....clicktale or such. Good luck!
I do have to agree with domain here, lately the conversions have been off a lot especially in the later hours. Like I said before their usually off, but lately its been pretty bad. Vene