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I noticed all their casinos have those annoying flash pop-ups that block your view of the sites and don’t go away. That could be part of their problem.
Greetings,
First of all, I would like to wish you all a happy holiday and a prosperous new year.
Our sponsoring casinos have recently changed the way they deliver
casino software to a potential player trough a direct download
functionality.A potential player no longer needs to submit their email address to download casino software. They can download the casino directly and provide their respective personal information after they have installed the casino on their desktop.
The below casinos are using the direct download function:
Caribbean Gold, Silver Dollar, Superslots, All Poker Casino and Millionaire Casino.
Casino Coins has been reporting unique download information based on the email address from potential players. However, the download information is not unique since the stats reports a download each time a user clicks to download even if the download is not completed or duplicated.
Another feature added to the casino websites is a pop up asking the user to download the casino software while they browse. If the user clicks “OK” this will count as a download on your stats even if it is a non-completed or duplicated download.
In summary, the number of downloads reported in our stats are not unique downloads and this number has increased lately because our casinos have changed to direct download functionality.
We are working with our sponsoring casinos to provide you with a more accurate measurement of completed downloads and the real conversion ratio per download.
We will keep you updated on this development.
Happy Holidays!
Connie Burstin
Connie B wrote:Greetings,
Another feature added to the casino websites is a pop up asking the user to download the casino software while they browse. If the user clicks “OK” this will count as a download on your stats even if it is a non-completed or duplicated download.How is this considered a feature moreover a beneficial feature? Looking at my December stats I have a whopping 1% download to player ratio – that is absolutely horrible for the quality of traffic I am sending.
I have contacted you numerous times in the past regarding the accuracy of your stats – it seems to me that things still have room for improvement. I believe quality traffic should be converting a minimum ratio much much much greater than 1% :huh2:
Hello,
The casinos added a pop up inviting potential players to download the casino software. This is why I mentioned that this is a feature added by the casinos.
Furthermore, the download numbers have increased due to spiders from search engines. The casinos have modified this on their download pages on December 23rd and count the number of downloads from humans only and not from spiders.
Casino Coins will be adding a new report (daily stats report) on December 31st and show you the number of people who have successfully downloaded the casino and receive an account number upon their registration.
There is definitely a room for improvement and we will be incorporating those in 2005.
Happy New Year!
Connie Burstin
Connie B wrote:Hello,
Furthermore, the download numbers have increased due to spiders from search engines. The casinos have modified this on their download pages on December 23rd and count the number of downloads from humans only and not from spiders.This has not been the case with my stats. I utilize a tracking script on all my outgoing links which filters out robots. Hopefully the ratio I have been experiencing will pick up now that the casinos have solved what they saw as a potential problem (which wasnt a problem for me)
Best wishes Connie and have a great new years day and a better new year.
You want to share the code?
It’s not pretty, but it works for me. I’ve only included the parts relevant to spider detection.
Code:$agent = strtolower($_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’]);$is_spider = false;
if (strpos($agent,’googlebot’) !== false) { $is_spider = true; }
if (strpos($agent,’slurp’) !== false) { $is_spider = true; }
if (strpos($agent,’webcrawler’) !== false) { $is_spider = true; }
if (strpos($agent,’ia_archiver’) !== false) { $is_spider = true; }
if (strpos($agent,’spider’) !== false) { $is_spider = true; }
if (strpos($agent,’scooter’) !== false) { $is_spider = true; }
if (strpos($agent,’teoma_agent1′) !== false) { $is_spider = true; }
if (strpos($agent,’nameprotect’) !== false) { $is_spider = true; }
if (strpos($agent,’msnbot’) !== false) { $is_spider = true; }
if (strpos($agent,’turnitin’) !== false) { $is_spider = true; }
if (strpos($agent,’naverbot’) !== false) { $is_spider = true; }
if (strpos($agent,’pompos’) !== false) { $is_spider = true; }
if (strpos($agent,’nutch’) !== false) { $is_spider = true; }
if (strpos($agent,’gigabot’) !== false) { $is_spider = true; }
if (strpos($agent,’sohu-search’) !== false) { $is_spider = true; }
if (strpos($agent,’it-bot’) !== false) { $is_spider = true; }
if (strpos($agent,’becomebot’) !== false) { $is_spider = true; }
if (strpos($agent,’ng/2.0′) !== false) { $is_spider = true; }
if (strpos($agent,’webrobot’) !== false) { $is_spider = true; }if (!$is_spider) { inc_clicks_check_ip($id, $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’]); }
The inc_clicks_check_ip part is another routine that ensures that multiple consecutive clicks from the same IP address are only counted once.
Also, whenever I see an unusual number of clicks throughout my site, I usually go look in the logs to see what new bot is hitting me, and add it’s name to the list above.
Happy New Year to all of you as well.
Cheers,
Connie Burstin
Affiliate Program Manager
http://www.casinocoins.com
