Any way to check referrals = sales?

miseld said
Try to compare REF CTR on videohive:

Sorry mate but you need to blur that out better. It says $9,126.59

@Pressateers LOL Are we talking about earnings or refs.

Zeplix said
Well one of the problems is that the referral doesn’t always work. I’ve tested it out myself,

I do not think testing it yourself is wise If you have visited one of the Envato Marketplaces before and then click a referral link, it doesn’t count I’m sure they use more than just cookies to track this (eg: ip address vs referral url vs time) in order to stop people increasing their own referral count

also a lot of data on the marketplace is cached – so results may take a while to appear.

it can be guessed, this method is anything like perfect but can give you a rough estimation:

you set a cookie, then include on item page a 1×1 transparent gif hosted on the same domain so that the previously set cookie will be sent with the image request

log this requests then cross reference with statement data: whenever the last visit before a purchase has the cookie, you assume $salesComingFromAds++

yeah, i know … but is better than nothing.

bitfade, but on statements you can’t see the time of the sale, only the date of the sale, so you’d have to sit glued to your screen 24/7 have even a remote idea about it, and even then it could still just be flukes : (

Zeplix said
bitfade, but on statements you can’t see the time of the sale, only the date of the sale, so you’d have to sit glued to your screen 24/7 have even a remote idea about it, and even then it could still just be flukes : (