OpenAds Testing: Help Me Out And Click That Banner
October 26, 2007 – 1:49 pmI have been testing OpenAds for last few days and am having some issues with click tracking side of things. I have often wondered who and when clicks on my ads and OpenAds makes this kind of tracking a little easier. Or does it?
Last few days, after being liked to by Andy Beard which triggered a wave of links and traffic, presented a great opportunity for testing. I was in particular focusing on geo-targeting features of OpendAds. However I incidentally discovered that either OpenAds is not suitable for affiliate links or – are you ready?- I am being cheated by my affiliate networks. But before I point my finger to any party…
… here are some numbers form two ad zones served by OpenAds to put things in prospective. First here is a snap of yesterdays totals according to OpenAds:
And get this one! My affiliate networks are reporting that yesterday these two ad zones send to my merchants only 14 clicks/visitors. Quite a loss of clicks if you asked me!
Before I begin point my finger at any particular party I would like to run a test and you can help me with it. Just click that banner above- it will land you on one of my other blogs. Hopefully I can collect some conclusive data on whether or not OpenAds is good for serving your affiliate links- or whether or not I am being treated well by my merchants/affiliate networks. Either way it may be interesting experiment. Thanks in advance to every one who will click the banner.
And of course if you have experienced similar problems and have found a solution, please let me know.
Tags: Affiliate Marketing
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Thanks for stopping by. Do you run your OpenAds on a dedicated server?
I am not sure if OpenAds worth the effort if you run just a few banners on a website. I have also noticed that MySQL tends to "swell" quiet quickly.
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I use OpenAds as the delivery agent for all my adverts it makes adding adverts to lots of sites much simpler. It also means that if an affiliate partner from DGM stops being active I can drop them at one location and that's all the work I need to do.
As tools go I have to say it is useful if not especially well coded and by that I mean the code works very well but is no fun at all to edit.
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I'd say that has alot to do with it, but who knows.
I clicked the advert out of curiosity before I even read this post ;)
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they have basic php/mysql scripts that do it, google it
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I'm sure everybody tries their best but it's like any statistics package for anything, what's a bot and what's a human?
you can even put sitemeter AND analytics on your site and watch the differences.
heck I get different impression counts from google analytics and google adsense.
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I have never thought of bots. Do you think networks like CJ and others filer them out?
I really like what OpenAds can do in terms of geo-targeting or as they call it probability. But this gap between clicks on my end those reported by networks made me a little worried.
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I do find that openads tracks on the high side of things though, as if they aren't filtering many of the bots that are making some clicks.
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