The SBI! TrafficCenter counts all visitors. This includes human users who have Javascript turned off in their browser as well as robots and spiders visiting your site.

Please note, as well, that some security options may prevent third party traffic counter scripts from executing correctly which is another potential cause for their data not being the same as what is found in your TrafficCenter.

If you are comparing the SBI! Traffic Stats to a specific traffic counter, please note that SiteSell Support is not familiar with third-party applications. Our expertise is SBI!.

I highly recommend that you visit the SBI! Forums to talk with other experienced Webmasters who are using your particular tool...

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You will find a specific Forum there that meets your needs. Perhaps there is a thread that is already discussing issues like this one. Review the posts to see if you can find such an ongoing thread.

If not, post your query under the appropriate category -- some friendly, helpful and experienced SBIer will likely chip in shortly. The Using and Interpreting Reports and Stats forum will likely be appropriate...

You will find many knowledgeable and savvy users in the forums that are willing to help. If you have a good idea, suggestion, or comment, please return the favor to the forums... help someone else out.

When you calculate the average number of visitors per day by adding up the number of visitors for each day and then dividing by the number of days, the result may differ from the average number that is shown in the traffic stats.

This is best explained by using a hypothetical example that keeps the math simple...

Let's assume that you have only 30 people who visit your site. But these fans really like your site, so they visit it daily.

This will show up as 30 people for each day of the month.

When you calculate the average at the end of the month though, only 30 "unique visitors" visited your site during the entire month, even though each one of them visited your site 30 times. The total number of visitors that is reported at the top of the traffic stats page will therefore be 30.

Divide the total number of visitors for the month (i.e., 30) by 30 days, and the result is that an average of 1 visitor per day visited your site. In this extreme case, you will therefore have an average that is lower than the number of visitors on any given day of the month. This may seem like a paradox at first sight.

Obviously, a real site has a mix of new (or unique) and returning visitors. If you want to gauge the overall success of your site, it's best to focus your attention on "visits," rather than "visitors." Visits include new visitors (great) and return visitors as well (even better).

If the page you deleted already received traffic in the current month, the past visits and page views for that page will still be displayed in the Traffic Stats. However, because you deleted the page, the numbers will no longer increase for the remainder of this month.

Next month, the deleted page will no longer show in your Traffic Stats because the traffic to the page will then be zero for the entire month.

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Reports & Stats
http://forums.sitesell.com/viewtopic.php?t=12203

Joint Ventures/Traffic Swaps/Value Exchange/Article Library/Sites/Others
http://forums.sitesell.com/viewtopic.php?t=12115

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1) Visits -- the number of visits to your site

2) Visitors -- the number of unique people who visit your site (ex., a visitor could account for 10 visits in a month)

3) Pages -- the number of pages viewed by all the visitors during all the visits

Why are your stats off in terms of visits vs. visitors? This is a paradox best explained by use of a hypothetical example. Let's say for your site, yourdomain.com, you only get 1 visitor a day which happens to be your own visit.

Now it's the end of the month. You go into the Traffic HQ and check the stats for www.yourdomain.com. You see 1 visitor for each day. If you load the stats into a spreadsheet to verify the results, it tells you your average number of visitors for the month is 1. (31 divided by 31 is 1.)

But when you check the monthly stats, it says the average is only 0.03. And it says the total number of unique visitors is 1. You think what the heck is up with that? But then you realize that you are on a cable modem and your IP remained the same all month.

So... while there is 1 visitor each day, there is really only a single unique visitor for the month. Your calculations confirm that 1 divided by 31 is 0.0322581.

If you would like further clarification, please contact Support. A staff member would be happy to assist you.

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Please also keep in mind that you cannot paste a two-part affiliate code directly into the Link Library.

Helpful Hint: Not sure if a link has added code? Copy and paste the link information into a WORD document or an HTML-formatted e-mail. When you do so, the actual link information should appear in hyper-text blue color while the added code will appear as black text copy only.

If your affiliate program states you must leave a link with added code as is for you to get the proper credit for the click and linking, you have a few choices on the matter...

1) Place the link in a text block and not track in our system.

2) Build your pages in HTML, upload them and use the link as is. SBI! will add its own tracking code to the link on an uploaded page.

3) Consult your affiliate program and ask that they provide you with a tracker link that contains only URL information if possible. Then you can use it in a text link or graphic link block.

4) If your affiliate link contains a gif tracking file, break it down into two separate parts and put each part in the right location in order for the tracking to work properly.

Part One is the URL to the network...

<a href="http://www.otheraffilateprogram.com/click-xxxxxxx-yyyyyyy" target="_blank">put text for link here</a>

You add the URL part to your Link Library.

Part Two is a small image file that tracks impressions...

<src="http://www.otheraffilateprogram.com/image-xxxxxxx-yyyyyyy" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="">

Place this small image on your page by pasting the code into a SiteBuilder Text Block.

And that's it. Get the locations right and the tracking will work as it should!

Some SBIers have removed the graphic element of a CJ link and then copied and pasted the remaining code into a text block. The tracking worked fine for them. Test it yourself to see if you get the same result. In addition, please consult your affiliate program or directory to ensure that modifying your links in this manner is fine with the terms of agreement.

For more details, check out the full discussion at the SBI! Forums...

http://forums.sitesell.com/viewtopic.php?t=371



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A good example of a need to do this is with some link exchange partners.

If you use SiteBuilder, just put your links into a text block instead of a text link block. When you build that page, the tracker script won't be added.

If you upload your own html pages, you will need to add some code to your anchor tags that will tell the uploader not to add the tracking script to that link. For how-to details please see...

http://sbitips.sitesell.com/tracking-link-optout.html



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