Comments on: Testing Tracking http://www.3wdl.co.uk/2007/02/27/testing-tracking/ James Little writes about Affiliate Marketing, SEO, PPC, Blogging, Internet Revenue, and other random thoughts Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:33:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-hemorrhage hourly 1 By: Deri http://www.3wdl.co.uk/2007/02/27/testing-tracking/#comment-1541 Deri Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:18:48 +0000 http://www.exwebjunkie.com/2007/02/27/testing-tracking/#comment-1541 What you're talking about is eminently doable James. Here at SciVisum we run 24/7 website monitoring/ load testing of complex multi-step user Journeys for clients from the likes of Tesco to William Hill down to small sites at Govt departments or etc - and we run journeys to help clients see the effect of portal performance on their landing page journeys to sales conversion rates. But the hard things in terms of specifically putting orders through networks in the way you're thinking are things like: effort in unravelling the stats of the fake orders; for acuracy 1 sample per merchant per week is not enough, so would be placing many more orders than 4 per hour. Automated payments means reuse of the same credit cards - and hassle from credit card companies; who pays the CC! But hey, none are unsurmountable - mostly it just requires willingness from the network... I've talked to a few in the past, and didn't get much traction; but maybe it's an idea whose time is coming. Be interested to take it further if anyone else thinks so. Deri What you’re talking about is eminently doable James.
Here at SciVisum we run 24/7 website monitoring/ load testing of complex multi-step user Journeys for clients from the likes of Tesco to William Hill down to small sites at Govt departments or etc - and we run journeys to help clients see the effect of portal performance on their landing page journeys to sales conversion rates.
But the hard things in terms of specifically putting orders through networks in the way you’re thinking are things like: effort in unravelling the stats of the fake orders; for acuracy 1 sample per merchant per week is not enough, so would be placing many more orders than 4 per hour.
Automated payments means reuse of the same credit cards - and hassle from credit card companies; who pays the CC!

But hey, none are unsurmountable - mostly it just requires willingness from the network… I’ve talked to a few in the past, and didn’t get much traction; but maybe it’s an idea whose time is coming.
Be interested to take it further if anyone else thinks so.

Deri

]]> By: Steve http://www.3wdl.co.uk/2007/02/27/testing-tracking/#comment-1540 Steve Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:45:50 +0000 http://www.exwebjunkie.com/2007/02/27/testing-tracking/#comment-1540 There are a few automated services that could do this. One I've used is siteconfidence.com. Basically it follows a set of steps on a schedule and looks for certain results each page. Its normally used to check that your site isn't broken. It's not cheap, but should be well within the budget of a major network and it's much cheaper than the manual method. There are a few automated services that could do this. One I’ve used is siteconfidence.com.

Basically it follows a set of steps on a schedule and looks for certain results each page. Its normally used to check that your site isn’t broken.

It’s not cheap, but should be well within the budget of a major network and it’s much cheaper than the manual method.

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