Clicks and Impressions

[Kenneth Adair]

I promote several gambling affiliate programs. I am having a problem with my clicks and impressions stats that I have been unable to find the cause.
Since I got back into this a couple of months ago after several years of my sites being dormant, my stats on all of my affiliate programs will go for a few days of getting hundreds (200-800) of hits and impressions per day and then a few days of zero(0) to a handful of hits and impressions per day.
I could understand better it being one program and contacting that program about it but it is every affiliate program I promote that it happens.
I'm asking if anyone recognizes this problem and if anyone know of a cause and a fix for it?
Below is a sample of stats records of one of my affiliate programs and it is the same thing on the same days in all of them.
Thanks in advance!
Kenneth Adair
16 June 2020 282 0 0 0 0 $0.00 $0.00
17 June 2020 653 0 0 0 0 $0.00 $0.00
18 June 2020 722 0 0 0 0 $0.00 $0.00
19 June 2020 290 0 0 0 0 $0.00 $0.00
20 June 2020 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 $0.00
21 June 2020 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 $0.00
22 June 2020 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 $0.00
23 June 2020 220 0 0 0 0 $0.00 $0.00
24 June 2020 868 0 0 0 0 $0.00 $0.00
25 June 2020 467 0 0 0 0 $0.00 $0.00
26 June 2020 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 $0.00
27 June 2020 2 1 0 0 0 $0.00 $0.00
28 June 2020 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 $0.00
29 June 2020 109 0 0 0 0 $0.00 $0.00
30 June 2020 0 0 0

 

[casinoportal]

I have had this problem and it's caused by bots, it's annoying because it skews all your stats. One way to eliminate or at least vasty reduce it if your using wordpress, is to install a plugin called blackhole for bad bots.

 

[frankcolt]

it might be the affiliate website being crawled

 

[Thomas Andreas]

it can be a crawling issue. but it can also be that somebody has taken your affiliate links and are spamming them. Make sure to have your links hidden

 

[RyanWeb]

Try tracking where your website traffic is coming from and it should give you some clues. You can usually view your site visitors log via your host if you use cpanel

 

[Kenneth Adair]

Thanks everyone,
It happens with all seven of the affiliates I promote on the same days. Continuously 3-4 days with zero stats and then 3-4 days of hundreds of clicks and impressions. I'll have a good look at all of yours suggestions!
Thank yu,
Ken

 

[Jesper Ostergaard]

I also had such a problem, thanks for the help!

 

[Kenneth Adair]

Well guys and gals!
Thought I'd let you know that the "blackhole for bad bots" plugin did not work in solving this particular problem. Used free version and don't know if paid version would have made a difference or not.
Still have the same problem of 3-4 days of seeing hits on all 7 of my affiliates I promote and then 3-4 days of seeing NO HITS.
JESPER OSTERGAARD, did you ever get your problem solved?
Thanks all!

 

[AussieDave]

the "blackhole for bad bots" plugin did not work in solving this particular problem.

WP plugins are good for some uses, but not for all, especially not great for reducing, or more so, eradicating ALL THE CRAP which would be hitting your site on a daily basis.

Try tracking where your website traffic is coming from and it should give you some clues. You can usually view your site visitors log via your host if you use cpanel

As Ryan posted above, the only 100% proven way to find what is hitting your site, is to pull your raw log file(s). Without viewing that file, you'll remain clueless to what the issue is.

When you know what's causing the issues, only then can you be in a position to fix said issue

To do that effectively, you'd use htaccess rules, along with other security measures.

The other thing you could do, is add tracking to your affiliate links. That way, whatever crap is following those links, the IP of each of them can be logged to a file. Search around you should be able to find a "free" php script!

 

[Kenneth Adair]

OOPS! Guess I should have mentioned that I have 12 (twelve) sites involved in this promoting all, now eight, affiliate brands that all show 3-4 days of hits and then 3-4 days of zero hits.
Now that makes this occurrence even stranger wouldn't you say?
Keep safe my friends!
Ken

 

[AussieDave]

OOPS! Guess I should have mentioned that I have 12 (twelve) sites involved in this promoting all, now eight, affiliate brands that all show 3-4 days of hits and then 3-4 days of zero hits.
Now that makes this occurrence even stranger wouldn't you say?

@Kenneth Adair

Hiding the facts ain't cool, certainly isn't a "oops!"... Thanks for wasting my time, on your BS.

Another wanker tossed on my 'block list'.

 

[Kenneth Adair]

Not sure what AussieDave is so upset about?
I had simply overlooked the fact that I have 12 sites for which the same original problem is happening. It could have been just one site or it could have been 100 sites and don't know why AussieDave is referring to my question as to why this is happening as "your BS".