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Saturday, 27 January 2007 @ 8:53 pm (Chris Frost)Often Affiliates like to keep track of their sales on a daily basis, or if you are using Google Adwords or Microsoft Adcenter to PPC your website, or a campaign for a merchant, then to start off with you’ll probably want to check on an hourly basis. Most will agree, logging into a fistful of networks, checking stats on an hourly basis becomes a pain in the butt, when a simple overview is usally enough to suffice. Yesterday Paul blogged about such a piece of software that provides this facility, similar to Revtrends. I think this is relatively new to the market and is well worth checking out… Affmeter
Affmeter continues to be developed as more networks are added to the package and I believe DGM Pro and Amazon may already be in the development pipeline.
What sets Affmeter apart from other products and services in my eyes, is the fact that there’s a support forum and knowledge base available to assist with any problems. Unusually, these are available to both, people who have paid for the Pro Version, and also those that have the Basic version free of charge.
The Affmeter software currently report statistics from the following networks;
Affiliate Future
Affiliate Window
Buy.at - * I’ve not yet got this working
Commission Junction
Google Adsense
Linkshare
Paid On Results
Performics
Reporting.net
Trade Doubler
Webgains
The PRO version also allow’s you to monitor your PPC spending with the help of a Google API key, along with the detailed reports and versatility this software offers, it should easily and quickly highlight which networks are performing best for you and more importantly, which merchants. At a click of button, you can see month on month trends and even see the worst performing merchants (the ones that get clicks but generate no sales). This in itself is priceless as once these merchants are identified, you can swap them for others to help drive more sales for those merchants where you see success.
Visit Affmeter and get your Free Version, or purchase the Pro Version.
Horaayy..there are 4 comment(s) for me so far ;)
I’ve just received an email saying I have won a version of the PRO Affmeter software. Once I’ve had chance to play around with it, I’ll post another thread with my findings here. If the free version is anything to go by, I expect the PRO version to be well worth the 37.65 GBP outlay.
Similarities of the website and that of Statsremote are being discussed here:
http://www.a4uforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=52716&page=4
Hi JB
I’ve changed your text, but continue to point people to the forum so to let them make their own mind up.
Hope you understand, I don’t want this blog to be used to accuse people of one thing or another. From what I can see in the forum, there are similarities in the websites, but understand that the platform they produced is NOT based on your original software?
Chris
No problem
And you’re correct, the software itself is not based on our software.
I don’t agree with your wording though… ’similarities in the websites’ is not really correct as they blatantly copied parts of our website 100% and didn’t even remove the parts that are unique to our software, e.g. Microsoft Virtual Machine for Java Version 5.00.3800, eventhough affmeter is a .NET software. IMHO it can’t be more obvious.
This just happened too often in the last five years and I’m getting really tired of it. I just don’t understand why people put a lot of time into developing a tool and then steal the text of the website where they got the idea from in the first place.
For me it’s stealing whether they steal the software itself or the text. Please feel free to edit my message again if you don’t agree