I'm an affiliate for a company that offers some niche dating offers. They offer a PPC plan, where I get paid per click up to a $1.00 a click, the payout depends on the number of clicks vs. the number of free sign ups. So if there is 1 click and 1 free sign up that = $1 a click. If it's 1000 clicks and 1 free sign up, you're not going to get anything you'll get .000000001 or something like that.
Anyway, I started the campaign last week and started seeing good conversions, I was making about $5 a day, then last Thursday and Friday I removed my daily budget and my sales increased, to about $10 a day.
Now, I always watch my affiliate control panel and yahoo campaigns constantly. I noticed yesterday that my yahoo account shows I paid for 30 clicks. Yet my merchant's account only shows 2 clicks. Same thing happened today, I paid for 16 clicks and they're displaying 1 click.
I e-mailed my AM and they said it could be a competitor clicking my ads, he said their system only tracks uniques, but I just think it's kinda of odd that it started when my payouts increased. Although I can see how that this might be going on, since this niche I just discovered is unique and the costs for keywords is cheap with high traffic. I haven't found a niche that receives this amount of traffic a month at the price I'm bidding on.
Has anybody else seen a similiar problem? Any suggestions how I can find out where the problem is coming from? I'm going to promote another site of there's that was doing alright and see if the problem continues.
Anyway, I started the campaign last week and started seeing good conversions, I was making about $5 a day, then last Thursday and Friday I removed my daily budget and my sales increased, to about $10 a day.
Now, I always watch my affiliate control panel and yahoo campaigns constantly. I noticed yesterday that my yahoo account shows I paid for 30 clicks. Yet my merchant's account only shows 2 clicks. Same thing happened today, I paid for 16 clicks and they're displaying 1 click.
I e-mailed my AM and they said it could be a competitor clicking my ads, he said their system only tracks uniques, but I just think it's kinda of odd that it started when my payouts increased. Although I can see how that this might be going on, since this niche I just discovered is unique and the costs for keywords is cheap with high traffic. I haven't found a niche that receives this amount of traffic a month at the price I'm bidding on.
Has anybody else seen a similiar problem? Any suggestions how I can find out where the problem is coming from? I'm going to promote another site of there's that was doing alright and see if the problem continues.