Guino measures two things about your published pages: how many times they were viewed,
and how many times someone clicked an affiliate link.
Both are real counts. Neither is estimated.
Page views
Guino counts views, not visitors. There is no visitor cookie and no
fingerprinting, so one person reading your page three times counts as three views.
Every screen in Guino says “views” for this reason.
- Ad blockers and visitors with scripting disabled are not counted.
- Your real numbers are somewhat higher than what Guino shows.
Undercounting is the deliberate direction to be wrong in. A traffic number that flatters
you is worse than one that is conservative.
Only genuinely live pages record views. Drafts and unpublished pages do not.
Affiliate clicks
Every affiliate link on your published pages is tracked. A click is recorded when a
visitor follows one through to Amazon.
This is the number closest to your actual income, and it is the one to watch. A page with
many views and very few clicks usually has a call to action problem, not a traffic
problem.
What Guino will not show you
Estimated earnings and conversion rate do not appear anywhere in Guino, and
will not be added without a real source.Amazon reports your commissions to your own Associates dashboard and never back to
Guino. Guino can see that someone clicked through, and nothing after that. It cannot
see whether they bought, what they bought, or what you were paid. Any earnings figure
would be arithmetic dressed up as a record.
A gotcha with renaming
If you rename a review page, views and clicks stay recorded against whichever address
they happened on. The page’s history will appear in two pieces rather than one total.
Bear this in mind before renaming a page that is doing well. See
Review Editor.
Where to look
