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Hello! I am looking to buy your PRO add-on and potentially the Google analytics plug, but I have a quick question about the specific way we want to use your plug-in, and whether it will work for us.
We pay our authors on page views in any given month, but for ANY story they’ve written, whether it was in the last month, or not. This is because a lot of our content goes viral after publication, so a typical author might be paid for page views something like this:
Total page views in March = 100k
60k from stories published in March
20k from stories published in February
10k from stories published in January
10k from stories published earlier than thatI can see how your plug-in will track page views for stories PUBLISHED in the month you’re reporting on, but is it possible to track page views as I’ve articulated above?
Basically, I’m looking for a page view value that says “Author X generated Y page views in March, regardless of when the posts were actually written”. Is this something you can do, and I’ve missed it?
Please let me know, as I’d be keen to migrate away from our existing process asap!
Many thanks!
RichardHi Richard,
Basically, I’m looking for a page view value that says “Author X generated Y page views in March, regardless of when the posts were actually written”. Is this something you can do, and I’ve missed it?
I realize this may not be very explicit, but it’s possible indeed!
The idea is that you will always select the widest possible time range in the stats page, so that posts from all times are displayed -> visits from all times are counted.The only limitation is on the number of posts you need to see page views from at once. My local site (with almost no other plugins other than mine) can load stats for 10k posts in around 20 seconds, which is a huge number.
Does this help? Let me know if you have any more questions! Anyway, I’d encourage you to try out the PRO version and see if you can tweak it to fit your needs, and if not you have 30 days to get a full refund! 🙂
Have a nice day,
StefanoHi Stefano – thanks for the swift response (always a good thing to see when considering a paid-for plugin!).
I’m glad to hear you believe it’s possible, but you’ll have to forgive me as the instructions above don’t seem to meet my requirements.
If I set the widest possible time period (our site is 6 years old), how can I tell from that page which page views were for the month I’m reporting on? It appears to be showing ALL page views, going back to the beginning.
So I want to extend the date range back to the beginning, but how do I isolate the page views only for the month I’m interested in? My apologies if my question wasn’t clear!
Oh, and I’m going to get the PRO version now anyway as this seems like the right plug in for us, even if we need to do some tweaks at our end! Thanks!
Hi Richard,
the key here is the mark as paid feature. At the end of each month, you can mark as paid an author and his due payment will drop to zero. New visits from the coming month will generate the income for that month, but you won’t end up douple paying old visits. It’s just like if at the end of the month you said “I’ve taken note of how much I owed him up until now. Now reset figures to zero, but keep track of how much I have already paid him, and let’s start counting visits for the coming month anew.”Hope this clarifies. I will probably turn this into a tutorial soon as I realize it’s not clear how this flow could be achieved 🙂
See this post as well, as it covers the same topic 🙂
Ok, I think I understand – I will have a play around and see if I can get it to work, thanks!
Hi Stefano – sorry to be a pain, but I can’t see the function to “mark posts as paid” as you describe above. I can run the reports as you describe, and see the total page views, but I can’t see how to actually tell the plug-in I’ve paid the writer for page views up to a certain date (this all done via bank transfer so payments won’t be done BY the plugin itself). I’ve looked through the Q&A and tutorials, but can’t see anything, or anything obvious in the plugin itself?
Thanks!
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