For the last year or so I've been working directly with an advertiser, and have been using HasOffers for tracking / billing (they paid for a HasOffers instance, and I'm basically the only affiliate in the system - I bill them off the HasOffers numbers, which are typically pretty close to their own backend numbers). But with the ridiculous number of HasOffers outages lately, I'm looking to move to a new tracking solution. The problem is that the affiliate software I've looked at (Cake, HitPath, etc.) is super expensive, and I don't see why I or the advertiser I'm working with should be paying several thousand dollars per month for a full fledged tracking solution when literally all I need is a reliable way to count the number of conversions I'm generating for them.
I've considered a few things: using P202 (problem: added latency from extra redirect), an ad server (AdShuffle would be very cheap I think), or even just adding a Google Analytics pixel to the checkout page (not sure if this would work / be reliable).
My question for all of you: are there any other options I should consider? What's a cheap (or free), reliable, real-time way to get a simple conversion count on an offer that's accurate enough that you'd feel comfortable billing off of it?
Thanks!
AdZerk maybe? Otherwise, if it's just click tracking with no bells and whistles, you could get someone to code a custom logging platform so that you never have a monthly fee.
Thanks zeno! Looks promising, I just contacted them.
How about StatCounter or DemonTracking?
Any one try those?
I've used AdZerk - if their platform does what you need it to do, it's very good.
It has a couple of quirks, but at the end of the day it's fast and it does the job.
custom solution. For the amount $ you pay for few months on current tracking paltforms you can hire a good programmer to build it for you. Of course, he/them also needs to provide reliable testing to make sure it tracks properly on different conditions.
whats wrong with prosper202? added latency on the redirect? doesnt hassoffers along with every tracker have a redirect..