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Why was Affmeter created and what does it do?

Professional database management tools like MySQL or PostgreSQL seem to be the best way to handle affiliate revenue data. However, the affiliate marketer has to know how to use these tools in order to create necessary tables, fields, etc. We decided to provide a much simpler way: a single, consolidated environment for viewing all of your revenue data without having to create all the tables and fields yourself.

To handle all this complex data, one might consider collecting all the data in a central database. This would be easier for sure, but the data would be unsecure!

The solution presented itself: the data will be stored on the affiliate marketers own computers. This is a much simpler,more reliable, and secure solution than installing a professional database. It also provides much better performance than working with an XML or TXT file.

Affmeter collects the data from the affiliate networks for you, so you can work on the data on your own computer, safely and easily.

To enable consolidation, all of the data fields collected from the affiliate networks :

• Commission Junction
• Affiliate Window
• Affiliate Future
• Tradedoubler
• ClickBank
• ClixGalore
• DGM Affiliates
• Webgains
• Reporting.net
• Performics
• Linkshare
• Paidonresults
• Buy.at
• Google Adsense

Should be identical. For example, if you want to consolidate your ‘impressions’ and ‘clicks’ from 4 different networks, you need to be able to get the data for the ‘impressions’ and ‘clicks’ from each of them seperately. Even if only one of the data fields is missing from only one of the networks, then that consolidation can’t give you the information you need to make the right decisions.

We designed Affmeter for convenient consolidation and reliable projections.

Reports

When publishing a report the key is to display only the desired information in a very simple and meaningful way. The affiliate marketer should be busy finding the best way to increase revenue and not spend the bulk of his time trying to find and consolidate his/her revenue data or learning a complex tool.

We created the Affmeter Report Manager to provide reports that are detailed enough to set the affiliate marketers on the proper path, but simple enough to easily manage the revenue data.

Using the Report Manager, you can view:

The Affiliate Revenue Data from different Affiliate Networks ( Commission Junction US, Commission Junction UK, Affiliate Window, Affiliate Future, Tradedoubler, Webgains, Reporting.net, Performics, etc), either individually or together.

• Number of clicks
• Each network’s share of revenue
• EPC
• The changes in revenue amounts for different networks over time
• Revenue generated by individual merchants
• The changes in revenue amounts for different merchants over time
• Poor performing merchants
• Best performing merchants
• Number of clicks by merchant

TOOLS TO MAKE LIFE EASIER

 Affmeter scheduler - The Affemeter scheduler keeps your IP address safe and clean. Network operators are always busy keeping their systems safe. They watch everything that goes on at their sites. Whenever they realize a particular IP address is hitting the site a lot at a certain time, they will ban the IP address from the site, sometimes without any notification. The Affmeter scheduler prevents this from happening to your IP address. It hits sites for the necessary data at sporadic time intervals, not all at once.

 Affmeter sales manager - Affmeter sales manager will notify you by e-mail when a certain number of clicks or a particular commission level has been reached. It can be set up to send you an e-mail message when you receive 500 clicks overall or when you receive 200 clicks from one particular merchant. ( This feature will be included in the Pro version )

 Affmeter Merchant Watcher Tool - This tool is very important for the affiliate marketer. Any professional affiliate marketer is always opening new campaigns for different merchants which need to be tracked. These new merchant campaigns can be either generating revenue or not. To stop or continue a campaign for a merchant is a critical decision for the affiliate marketer and he/she needs to follow the revenue streams for that merchant for a specified time period. The Merchant Watcher Tool acts as the affiliate marketer’s eyes, watching what all of his/her merchants are doing, no matter how many merchants he/she has.

 Is Affmeter Secure? - In order to keep passwords secure, Affmeter uses 256 bit Rijndael encryption. Rijydael is the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) recommended by US Government Organisations.

Affmeter Features

• View of all your earnings from different affiliate networks and merchants
• Use the Customized "Affmeter Merchant Watcher Tool" to track selected merchants’ revenue streams
• Check revenue instantly
• Find top revenue generating merchants
• Find top revenue losing merchants
• Export reports as XLS files.
• View detailed commission reviews complete with charts
• Easily make comparisons across time periods, affiliate networks and merchants
• Receive email alerts when a certain number of clicks is reached
• View your statistics in USDs, Pounds or Euros with the Affmeter Currency Converter.
• Find affiliate network or merchant revenue statistics according to their share of total revenue.
• View data from all the Major Affiliate Networks (CJ ( Commission Junction, Linkshare, Performics, Reporting.net, Affiliate Window, Affiliate Future, Trade Doubler, Webgains, Buy.at, Paidonresults, Google Adsense). The Affmeter will add more affiliate networks as time progresses.
• Get up and going quickly with an easy-to-use interface tailored to the affiliate marketer
• Easily reach of Google Adsense ppc campaigns’ cost data
• Consolidated format of revenue and cost data in one table ( profit table)
• Detailed review of merchant trend graphics

How to Use Affmeter
 1. Download the Affmeter agent from our site.
 2. Install it on your computer.
 3. Affmeter will ask for account information for each of your networks.
 4. Affmeter collects your past five days data.
 5. Your data will be kept in your PC and you can get the reports of last updated data even if you are not online.
 6. When you have not used Affmeter online for more than five days, you need to use Affmeter’s scheduler to retrieve the missing data.
 7. You will receive e-mails concerning your operations once a day.

publisher-author

Fethi Gokce (Firuze Okten Gokce) [did also : CB Marketplace Scanner , Affmeter 1.05.018 ]

Requirements

Microsoft .Net framework 1.1

Version

1.05.018

License

Single User License

Created

2005/09/30

Updated

2007/08/15

Platform

Win 98/SE/ME/NT4/2000/XP

Money Back

30 days

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