SEDO vs Clickbank

[manatt487]

Hello,

So I had a few domains, which I regged myself (i.e. no preexisting traffic), parked on sedo. As expected, traffic was practically non existent - in two months most received zero unique hits, a few got a couple and one got 10 hits (total of 2 months).

Just for kicks, two days ago I forwarded these domains to relevant clickbank products (using my affiliate id). So for eg if the domain name was related to medical condition X, i forwarded it to an ebook about this medical condition with my aff id.

I checked the analytics for clickbank today and found out that all of them received a couple of 'hops' and the one for which i had received 10 'uniques' on sedo during the last 2 months, had received 36 hops on clickbank in two days.

Can one enlighten me here? Was sedo under-counting visits or is clickbank over counting them?

N.B the hops dont come from myself checking the pages as I only checked that two were forwarded and that's it. So they can't be my own visits.

Thanks

 

[RazorNF]

Could be bots.

Traffic can differ between services, dependent on what criteria is used to count it.

I don't use Clickbank, does their "hop" count tell you any more info, like uniques and location?

IMO if there was little traffic to begin with, you should be getting even less if you turned it into a forward.

 

[manatt487]

I'm a clickbank newbie myself, but from what i understand hops equate to visits. In addition it says on their websites that the Hop count "does not include hops received from automated internet robots".

Since yesterday I've gotten 19 new hops on one domain, the others have registered no new ones... I'm still perplexed why this domain is getting so many visits why previously it had only registered 10 clicks in 2 months while on sedo...

 

[vc]

There's no way they can guarantee "does not include hops received from automated internet robots". There's just tooo many robots out there and so the filtration that happens from tracker to tracker will differ hence why you get the mixed results.