Why are the statistics inaccurate?

Tess: 06/27/2013 - 02:15 PM

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That is really bad news. It also explains why articles that were doing incredibly well on hubpages and elsewhere are not selling here at all. If one of those articles were allocated to Wizzley, then i would, essentially earn nothing from them. That's not acceptable to me. i don't mind them earning half the income, but all the income on a particular article that makes money? I don't think so. 

Where on earth did I say that 'Wizzley earns all the income on an article'?

They earn a percentage, as noted above, of EACH article.

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If you have written less than 50 articles the ads are shown, as follows:

• 50% with the Wizzley ad code, 50% with your ad code"

That might not have been what you meant to say, but your sentence structure means that 50% of the articles have Wizzley code and 50% one's own code. If you wanted it to mean that 5% of the code IN the article was Wizzley and 50% of the code IN the article was your own, then that would have been worded differently.

I have noticed over the last few days that the visitor count in statistics is very markedly lower than has been reported previously so it does look like some changes have been made.

I wasn't going to wade in on this thread, but I'm feeling brave.

Disclaimer: I'm probably wrong here. I usually am when it comes to stats.

But what it means to me is that with the 50/50 rule, to take an example:

- For half the visitors on your articles, the ads pay out to you

- For the other half, the ads pay out to Wizzley

So on that model you earn 50% of all revenue brought in by the article.

The visitor stats may or may not include bots, spiders, crawlers and other yucky creepy things, depending on how good the current blocking model is at recognizing real visitors from automated ones.

No possible visitor model is going to be 100% accurate, not even the sainted Google Gods can get it right all the time.

I'm sure someone with more knowledge than me will say yes or no accordingly.

Yup, Paula.  

yes, I understood that afterwards. Thank you.

Yes I think we are all a lot clearer - for me it was the level of divergence between the GA stats and the Wizzley stats that was quite a shock - but now we know what we are working with

Agreed. I don't believe I can earn money here. I did an Adsense course on Google Plus yesterday (It's a 10 week course if anyone wants to sign up) and they showed one how to compare what sites were doing best for one. Wizzley isn't doing well for me at all, yet I put more time in here than anywhere else. (Which isn't that much). But it earns the worst. So I had to think about it. I'm staying because it gives me a platform where everything is together  and it is nicely designed. :)