Commision Junction click tracking not accurate?

**woahdolla** · 08-13-2006, 09:49 AM

I have several banners on my site, and have clicked them several times to test them out. When I go to CJ it says only 1 click. I have clicked banners at least 15 times.

Can someone tell me whats up with this? Is CJ actually reliable??? Last thing I want is to refer customers and not get paid!

**dillinger** · 08-13-2006, 10:09 AM

MY guess is that CJ already tracked your link and set you with cookie , so it only counts uniques (as in unique IP addresses that click) and not raw clicks.

**woahdolla** · 08-13-2006, 10:41 AM

hmmmm, and why would they do something like that?/? A click is a click.

I've clicked on multiple different ads. So you're saying they only track 1 click per many different ads? hmmm, dont know about that.. I'll have to try and contact them. I dont want to start promoting if Im not going to get paid properly..

**woahdolla** · 08-13-2006, 11:03 AM

Hmmm, actually now it's showing 6 clicks and 800 impressions...

Does it take like a day or so for stats to update? If so thats a long time...

CJ vets please let me know!:helpsmilie:

**imported_feros** · 08-13-2006, 02:00 PM

CJ updates very very slowly. I haven't done any extensive research on it or anything but it seems to take up to an hour before it refreshes.

**dillinger** · 08-13-2006, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by woahdolla

hmmmm, and why would they do something like that?/? A click is a click.

I've clicked on multiple different ads. So you're saying they only track 1 click per many different ads? hmmm, dont know about that.. I'll have to try and contact them. I dont want to start promoting if Im not going to get paid properly..

What I meant was that maybe they track only one click per IP to a particular link.I dont know how CJ does it since I`ve yet to promote them, I`m talking from past experience where a sponsor tracks raw clicks and uniques.
It`s useful to get both stats though.