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c21colean
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Ninja Affiliate shows clicks, affiliates do not

I have six Ninja links on one site, one with Amazon, three with clickbank, and two with CJ.com. Ninja affiliate shows between 15-60 clicks on those links, but the affiliate sites show zero impressions, or orders. I have checked my affiliate codes three times. I can understand no orders out of 60 clicks, but three different affiliate sites showing zero impressions, while Ninja Affiliate shows 15-60 clicks - something has to be wrong. Please help.
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  • Kristof
    I've also encountered this. I have multiple links with over 400 click-throughs yet not one of them have been registered on ClickBank or Amazon.
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  • Kristof
    As far as I can tell, the MBP links are redirecting. But the 4 issues listed below lead me to believe there are some serious and questionable issues with this software.

    1 When I use a MBP link in my email newsletter, Aweber (my email list management service) says the links are broken and can't be verified. This effects the spam rating and deliverability.

    2. If I add a (blogroll) link in WordPress using a MBP link, WordPress reports the link as broken.

    3. If I use a MPB link anywhere in my WordPress site, the Broken Link Checker plugin reports them as broken.

    4. The click-through numbers in MBP don't match the clicks registered by Amazon or ClickBank -- they're not even close. In fact, MBP says there have been 219 unique click-throughs for a ClickBank link but not one sale was made. But as soon as I changed from using a MBP link to a regular ClickBank link, clicks were registered and sales made.

    I am no longer going to use this software until these issues can be fixed.
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  • Kristof
    It's been a year and I've heard nothing from the developer. I'm starting to suspect fishy is going on. Nonetheless, I've stopped using the Ninja plugin and now use Simple URLs [ http://www.studiopress.com/plugins/si... ] It doesn't have all the features but it's reliable. And for auto linking text, I use SEO automatic links plugin.
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  • Fabiano Fabris
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    Ugh, this stinks - on top of current issues of people not being able to even access the downloads they just paid for (like myself).

    Anyway, a bit of research (Google) gave the possible answer: it seems these phantom clicks occur when your site is spidered. That's why they don't register as received clicks by the affiliate.

    A bit more digging turned up something, to me, more serious: rather than replacing keywords with links "on the fly", posts and pages are duplicated in the database, causing rapid database bloat.

    Naturally, I cannot confirm any of the above personally, as I do not yet have access to the plugin.
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