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What's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Because you have your own logs to compare if traffic increases or not?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    That doesn't solve the affiliate thing or other metrics like ad views.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You can monitor your site traffic during the ad campaign and see if it goes up by a reasonable rate per impression though?

    Sure I suppose they could lie and you happen to have such a well crafted ad that it has a super high click rate and you are getting scammed but I think that is highly unlikely. Especially depending on your target it would be easy to check.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    You can tell if it went up, but can you tell if it went up by a million views or two million?

    Now yes I know metrics exist for this. But all those metrics are written based on data that's predominantly from a few of these large companies, and so expectations can be skewed.

    Maybe Google has at least some competition in ads, even if nobody can touch that amount, but I can't see how you could reliably tell if Amazon isn't skimming your affiliate clicks.

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