comicartfans wrote:
First, it isn't a subset
unless your business model was strictly ACRUs. It was the primary revenue driver for most affiliates.
This is a problem if QCP includes ACRUs, which it does. If half your revenue was from ACRUs, you'd be comparing 50% to 100%. 10% ACRUs, you'd be comparing 90% to 100%. Since you have no way to take them out of QCP, you're overstating QCP's performance a bit for each ACRU you exclude.
comicartfans wrote: Second, show me one affiliate here that sees ACRUs in October impacting QCP revenues at all. I have yet to see one person state that ACRUs one day have proven to provide higher EPC the following days or weeks. I for one see no shift in higher EPC as a result of the few ACRUs I get. Personally I look at what I get as if I'm not being paid for ACRUs at all - which is exactly what it feels like.
There have been a couple threads about the QCP drops associated with ACRUs. And comments that they were made up for in the following days.
Link comicartfans wrote: And third, I said I simply don't trust anyone to properly calculate what they used to earn with CPA as compared to what they are earning today - let alone have everyone above use the same metrics to come up with that %.
Like burlfield says above. He made 50% more than last month, but he also says he sold more. So what's 50% really mean if you want to compare that to where you fell? That's why I'm saying you cannot look at these %'s people are stating and trust each person is calculating their % using the same method.
Well, I made that point earlier in the thread. You can't compare this month to last month. But that's not what I suggested. I suggested comparing this month to this month. It's simple enough with the detailed report.
ACRUS*28+WBR*.55 = Old revenue
or
ACRUS*40+WBR*.60 = Old revenue
Just sub in your actual ACRU and WBR values for October, change the ACRU payout to whatever was typical and the revenue factor to whatever old system tier you are in.
comicartfans wrote: When someone says they are up 47% like the OP, does that mean that they used to be at the 50% threshold and used to make $400/month in earnings?
Right like I said in my first post, the numbers have to be somewhat consistent to do a comparison. You have to compare relative to your own payout under the old system - they're the only numbers you can reliable consider to be similar in nature to your current traffic. How are you going to compare yourself to other affiliates in a quality system when you have no idea what they are selling or how they are targeting?
But, I think the general question here is how does our performance against the old system compare not how are affiliates doing against each other.
Though I'd certainly be interested in hearing details about what isn't working and what is.
I'm up overall, but a few of my campaigns are completely trashed even though the traffic is handled the same way as others with the same targeting techniques. How can I know if all my campaigns don't contain some level of trashed data. There's no way to determine that, no way to minimize, and no decent stats. All you can do is throw a tactic out and see if it has any effect, and even then you don't know if it's seasonal, some change on the back end or an actual improvement.
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