Overall stats:

CCbill stats:

Breakdown by month:

Income and expenses:

Let’s work for an even better for 2012!

Nifty Stats no longer has a free ad-supported version, but it priced at a reasonable $19.95 a month, or you can save a few bucks with the $199 a year option. It is actively supported, and my support questions have all been answered within 24 hours. Requests for new programs or features were also handled very fast.

The above screenshot is for the day of Dec 8th (okay I’m a little slow during the holidays). It shows my affiliate programs and stats which are mostly easy to understand. The only exception is the ‘Payout’ column. This shows the amount of money in my accounts at each affiliate program, and if it’s a green font, then I’ve met the minimum payout and should be getting a check. I like that feature. Some affiliate programs pay a month or so behind for fraud checking reasons, so the payout can build up. But you can use this to tell something is wrong if you are owed a check and haven’t received one in a while. During my Nifty Stats trial I discovered one affiliate program that owed me a few hundred dollars, and I had to contact their support to get it. I gotta be more on the ball, and this Nifty Stats feature will help.

If the affiliate program supports it, you can download stats by site as well. Here is Kinky Dollars.

Another great feature is being able to sort the affiliate programs by groups. So far I’ve created ‘Adult’ (my main pay per signup and revshare accounts), ‘Adult – Email/PPC sales’ (so I don’t count those micro-transactions in my conversion stats) and ‘Yuck’ (affiliate programs that went belly up or I no longer wish to promote, but still wish to keep historical stats).

The only problem I encountered entering all my affiliate programs into Nifty Stats is it cannot record old data if the program switched from a previous stats program, for instance if they switched from CCBill to NATS. Affiliate programs rarely keep data from the older stats program live, so Nifty Stats can’t access it. Not Nifty Stats fault, but something to be aware of.

Now the very bottom part of the window will show more data on any affiliate programs selected above. In this case, I have CC Bill Affiliate highlighted and the ‘Payout’ tab selected. If the affiliate program supports it, Nifty Stats will download payout history, and when you receive your funds you can check off the payout as received and it will be reflected in the payout column. How great is that? If the affiliate program does not have payout history, you can still enter payments received manually.

Here I highlighted Nasty Dollars and clicked the ‘Report’ tab.

Here I highlighted my top ten affiliate programs and clicked the ‘Chart’ tab.

Here I highlighted all my affiliate programs and clicked the ‘Chart’ tab.

I’ve been very impressed with Nifty Stats and everything you can do with the numbers. I tried to touch on the most important (to me) features in this Nifty Stats review, but since the Nifty Stats 30 day trial is free, go ahead and try it yourself. I think you’ll be happy you did.

CCbill breakdown:

This graph is from Stats Remote – please note the comma in the left axis is off by one (still hasn’t been fixed). Traffic and sales have been decreasing throughout the year, but I don’t know how much of that is from the economy and how much from losing some traffic sources.

The key issue is that although my traffic went up 18%, my sales ratio dropped 35%, netting me an overall 12% decline in new sales.

This chart is my received income (after check fees and the like) and expenses incurred on my end. For 2011 I plan to cultivate my own traffic sources (mainly search engines) through a quality adult blog network. My goal is to make 20 new adult blogs per month (not counting any free hosted blogs).