I’m not slamming Ryan but I do think there are major problems with CR reporting and I don’t think it’s bots or gremlins or elves. Massive downloads do not occur on any of my other stats. When many affiliates sees 100 downloads and no registrations this sets off flags and becomes a major concern which needs to be addressed. I also don’t think the actions taken should be on the affiliate end. Rational thought dictates that this problem is with CR programming.
CR needs to identify the potential problems, confirming or eliminating each problem (including player tracking) and then correct where necessary. Over the next 30 days, will CR be working on this or will they wait for 30 days to see if the ‘nofollow’ link works? If it doesn’t, what then? You’ve lost 30 days that you could have been looking into the problem. I don’t believe bots are the problem, but I could be wrong. If so perhaps CR should find out just what the attraction is that bots seem to have exclusively for CR downloads.
Sue