Mismatch between clickbank and bitly. Please help

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So i am running a paid ads campaign with bing ads.

Used a bitly affiliate link. Targeted US only. bitly shows 97 clicks on shortened affiliate links from US.

But CB reporting tab shows 34 hops from US. and 90 hops from Bangladesh. which i have not even targeted.

How is this possible?
 
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Even without a tracker those numbers don't add up , there must be something , CB shave for sure but the numbers you mentioned dosent make any sense , did you try changing the offer ? some publishers there are still fan of CS , but still this won't explain the Bangladesh traffic !
 
moonshine7000 said:
competitor could be clicking your ads
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even before starting i made sure i checked all their ads and websites for all the broad keywords. and then added them to ip address block list. when i started running campaigns i checked auction insights and then further added all the advertisers in the list.

ofc they can change ips and click. also made sure there are no more than 2 clicks from any ips and there arent any. but this is all i can do

or are there other thinigs i am missing?
 
speedy5044 said:
Even without a tracker those numbers don't add up , there must be something , CB shave for sure but the numbers you mentioned dosent make any sense , did you try changing the offer ? some publishers there are still fan of CS , but still this won't explain the Bangladesh traffic !
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sorry whats CS? if this continues and eats my budget i am changing the offer. also i will drop the email to that particular vendor.

also for this particular offer i had some news from some of my fellow affiliate marketers that there are problems in its hops and tracking and some website manitenance issues. so maybe that explains.

Exactly. this has got more weird since then
see the ss below of bing ads dashboard, bitly, and then cb showing clicks from bangladesh wtf.
 

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Rounak1872 said:
sorry whats CS?

Exactly. this has got more weird since then
see the ss below of bing ads dashboard, bitly, and then cb showing clicks from bangladesh wtf.
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So 107 US clicks from adwords gave you 34 US clicks in CB analytics , i don't see any Bangla traffic ? 2 things though , if the screenshots you sent are in the same time you need to fix your website (speed wise as you are loosing traffic) 2nd i would worry about no impressions in the order page more than anything else , 0 impressions means your traffic is worth literally 0 (i know its still early to say that but comparing to the traffic you need to adjust your keywords )
Also , you are wasting top dollars sending traffic directly dude, if its not your offer you can get a list that you can play anytime
Edit: CS is cookie*$tuffing, not allowed here
 
Probably some competitor clicking on your ads.
There is similar tool found here.

Rotating proxy with 100k IPs, so IP whitelisting won't help you.

Maybe buy domain, hosting I am using hostinger, then install WP and url shortener plugin,
cloudflare set up and block all countries except US?

But this may help you with visitors being redirected being US only,
for clicks won't help.

In bing ads make it show only to US if search ads?

I would ditch this found some low gravity offer with nice LP and such,
Make similar LP with Big buttons being aff links,
make sure there are no search ads on those products or if there
are that there are a one or two, and start all over again.

EDIT: If you know some good bing coupons supplier and VCC please PM.
 
speedy5044 said:
So 107 US clicks from adwords gave you 34 US clicks in CB analytics , i don't see any Bangla traffic ? 2 things though , if the screenshots you sent are in the same time you need to fix your website (speed wise as you are loosing traffic) 2nd i would worry about no impressions in the order page more than anything else , 0 impressions means your traffic is worth literally 0 (i know its still early to say that but comparing to the traffic you need to adjust your keywords )
Also , you are wasting top dollars sending traffic directly dude, if its not your offer you can get a list that you can play anytime
Edit: CS is cookie*$tuffing, not allowed here
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there is right. by code BD. that is bangladesh, 102 hops.
and i am really not sending the traffic directly. like its a product review based lander.
 
There seems to be some issue with the traffic quality or the product landing page. First of all, you should use a tracker to understand how your traffic is behaving at various stages. At a glance, it looks like an issue with Clickbank product page as they messed up countries and there is no activity. You should try some other product.
 
Starblazer said:
There seems to be some issue with the traffic quality or the product landing page. First of all, you should use a tracker to understand how your traffic is behaving at various stages. At a glance, it looks like an issue with Clickbank product page as they messed up countries and there is no activity. You should try some other product.
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i would change the offer. there are some friends of mine who are doing fb ads and they tell me they are facing the same problem.
and this time i would set up bemob free version. thank you.

Just a random though crazy thought. who knows, clickbank and that vendor may have colluded and set up a period of lets say 7 days or whatever, where they decide to track hops (so that affiliates can rest assured that there links are working) though no ofi for any affiliates, and vendor decides to give 20 or 30 percent of sales to clickbank than giving 70 to 80 percent to affiliates.

and then again they can get back to setting it up right.
 
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Rounak1872 said:
i would change the offer. there are some friends of mine who are doing fb ads and they tell me they are facing the same problem.
and this time i would set up bemob free version. thank you.

Just a random though crazy thought. who knows, clickbank and that vendor may have colluded and set up a period of lets say 7 days or whatever, where they decide to track hops (so that affiliates can rest assured that there links are working) though no ofi for any affiliates, and vendor decides to give 20 or 30 percent of sales to clickbank than giving 70 to 80 percent to affiliates.

and then again they can get back to setting it up right.
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I too think that Clickbank might be involved in some shady tactics. Moreover, many people here complained that Bing sent them low quality traffic that didn't convert. You should be able to identify the problem with the tracker. If the traffic doesn't convert, switch to fb ads. As your friends are already doing fb ads, it's better to replicate their strategy in the beginning. If you start getting profits, you can experiment with more products.
 
getseoonline said:
Thats why you use a proper tracker mate
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hey i have started using. now i have set it up. but could you tell me how to read and analyze that data?

I mean one thing i have learned is i can see ip's and whitelist any frauds. except for that what else can i do?

coz countries and device types are also told anyway by microsoft
 
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