How often do you check you’re stats at the sponsors? Do you take any action if the stats are bad? Do you know how you’re sponsor are counting you’re stats? These are questions you should have answers to, because many newcomers think they have killer ratios when the sponsor are counting only join page hits. What does it mean? Simple…the sponsor do not show you how many clicks you send from you’re page/site to them, but they show you how many actually click through to the join page at the paysite. That is an easy way for the sponsor to “trick” you to belive that you are doing wery well, and you will continue to send traffic to them.

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An easy way to find out this is to hit the sponsor up on icq or send them a mail and ask them how they count the hits. If they are sincere and answer, then no problem, but some major sponsors never answers and some are even laying to you to try to keep you their affiliate.
The harder way to find it out is to find a sponsor you know are counting 1.st page hits, and compare them to the sponsor that you are wondering about.
This issue might not be too important, but it is hard to understand what brings you most when 1 sponsor counting 1.st page hits, another 2.nd page hits, the third only join page hits and the fourth even not show you all the join page hits as well.
Just know that there are huge differences in how sponsors are counting you’re hits, and do not be afraid to drop a sponsor if you think something fishy is going on.