Hi, thanks for your questions and sorry for my late replies, please contact support via the widget at a-ads.com (it should appear a few seconds after you open the site) to ensure that you get the response eventually, otherwise I may miss something and I am not sure I'll be able to answer everything here in a timely fashion.



I think your problem has been fixed, sorry for the delay.



I think your problem has been solved too, sorry for the inconvenience.


If your blogs or pages share the same domain name (or a subdomain of the same domain name) or use the subdomains of the same domain, then 1-2 ad units should suffice.

However make sure that the ad unit code is accessible by the specified URL on the domain. E. g. if you specified "example.com", then you may embed it to "example.com/page1", "site2.example.com", etc, but you must embed it to "example.com" as well or your earnings will be negligible.

Since we count network-wide unique IPs and consider various factors, it is often more profitable to have a 1 better placed ad unit, than a few poorly placed on the page. If all your sites share the same user base, then you might prefer to place ad units only on 1 site.

If your sites are available by sub-domains of the same domain, then you can use

However if your sites have different domain names then you need to create separate ad units for them (because we don't count the impression as unique if the domain doesn't match the ad unit's URL).

Theoretically if your traffic is of high volume & quality and your pages are diverse then creating individual ad units per page might increase the accuracy of targeting -> conversion -> your earnings. I am not sure to what degree it works or will work on practice. For low volume sites it doesn't really matter and is more convenient to use a single ad unit or two.


There is a probabilistic algorithm that distributes advertising budgets among ad units. Sometimes it selects your ad unit (thus you earn and start displaying the paid ads), sometimes it misses and you see 0 active campaigns.

If it misses continuously during more than an hour, then it will stop displaying the paid ads on your ad unit and will try to monetize your traffic with free affiliate ads.

Now (when your ad unit is categorized and generates sufficient volume of unique traffic) you are likely to always be selected.

Thanks for the proposed solutions, we will carefully consider them!


Hi! Thanks for your message. It looks like our IP has been banned on your server for some reason. Could you please fix it?

Thanks for your feedback. Yes, we are aware of the problem, our withdrawal system was designed when Bitcoin was advertised as a cheap way to transfer money. On the one hand withdrawals are automatic (to minimize risks of holding others' bitcoins) and we don't want to charge users for them. On the other hand we do micro-transactions, so we can't set high fees.

The current fee of ~20 satoshi per byte eats about 1% of the transferred value. We can probably double it, but will it suffice? It looks like the Bitcoin Core team decided to price out all the low value transactions until the Lightning adoption. And it is unclear yet if/when it happens and what is a 'low value' transaction in their understanding. Anything less than $10? $100? or $1000? I don't know.

Anyway, micro-transactions are doomed to be low priority. And since nowadays low priority transactions may take weeks to get confirmed, we are in fact forced to increase the transaction fees (and a the threshold for automatic withdrawals) and/or add an optional withdrawal fee.

We are working on it, sorry for the inconvenience.

Done, sorry for the delay.

Hi, thanks for the report!

It hasn't been rejected by the Bitcoin blockchain, it was just pruned by blockchain.info. They probably prune low-priority transactions, but it doesn't mean those transactions won't get confirmed.

You can track your transaction using other block explorer, e. g. https://blockexplorer.com/tx/fea29daed61336da80e4c5d7c1aaa745f07f81501007509b3014e98d8c59d9a4

You can also try https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/ to accelerate the transaction confirmation.

Sure, the 'wanted daily income' parameter doesn't constrain your earnings, it just helps us to determine the percentage of your traffic that goes for free affiliate ads.

If you earn less than the 'wanted daily income', then we consider that part of your traffic is under-monetized (i. e. advertisers pay you less than you think your traffic is worth). So we determine the percentage of under-monetized traffic and try to monetize it by displaying affiliate ads for free (to give you a chance to earn rewards from our partners). This may increase your income if your traffic is a good match for our partners.

If your 'wanted daily income' is lower than your actual income then we consider that your traffic is more-or-less monetized and we don't display free affiliate ads. Low value doesn't hurt your income and doesn't make your traffic more expensive for advertisers.

If your 'wanted daily income' is higher than your actual income then part of your traffic goes for free affiliate ads, thus the remaining impressions become more expensive for advertisers.

Even though that we are not pay-per-click neither pay-per-impression, advertisers still can set a soft CPM limit thus achieving a behaviour somewhat similar to the traditional CPM networks. Thus if your traffic appears too expensive for them, it may hurt your earnings.

So I'd recommend to set the 'wanted daily income' to some reasonably low value. It doesn't constrain your earnings, but it just determines what percentage of your traffic is available to the paying advertisers thus implicitly setting the price for it.


Thanks for your feedback. What if I change it to something like that:




Do you think it would be more clear? Please correct my English if I misused the words or articles.

Thanks!

Thanks for your question!


It looks like a usability issue of our web site.

When you created the ad unit, you probably saw this screen:



You specified the URL: https://www.ebitbux.com, but didn't embed the code to it.

So you got the error message "The ad unit HTML code has not been found at the specified URL! (checked about 4 hours ago)".

I think this message is self-explanatory: the reason why you see it is that there is no ad unit code on the specified URL.

Sorry, I am not a native English speaker, so I don't know how to phrase it better.

Please suggest what we should write there to make it more clear.

Since many users and ad units had a withdrawal threshold lower than 0.001 btc, we raised the withdrawal threshold to 0.00100001 btc for them. So if you notice this number if your settings, it has been probably automatically set by us.

You can still set it to a lower value in your user (or ad unit) settings, but please note that it would fragment your wallet and make it too expensive to spend your earnings later. Since Bitcoin micro-transactions "have been priced out by rising transaction fees", we may be forced to increase the minimum withdrawal threshold as well.

Hi,

Thanks for reporting!

It looks like due to the difficulty adjustment there is a congestion in the Bitcoin network and the funds of our hot wallet got stuck in the chain of unconfirmed transactions.

According to blockchain.info there are over 70K of unconfirmed transactions, and unfortunately our transactions are low priority. The constrained bitcoin capacity hurts our ability to handle micro-transactions, but please don't worry, we will sort it out, just need some time.

Update:

https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/ is our saviour. Have you received your withdrawal?

Sure, done.

Hi, thanks for reporting the issue. It looks like we introduced a small bug while increasing the default withdrawal threshold from 0.0001 btc to 0.001 btc  (it have been fixed now).

Btw, why did you set your withdrawal threshold to 0.0001 btc, are you sure you want to keep this value that low?

If you accumulate many tiny payments in your wallet, then it may be very expensive for you to spend them later, because your outgoing transaction will include many inputs and require a [sometimes unreasonably] high fee to get confirmed.

Sorry, didn't understand what's the difference between "my daily income" and "the estimated daily income", perhaps you just confused the words.

If you mean that the wanted daily income is 1000 and you earned only 500, then, yes, you understood it correctly. That also means that advertisers that pay you will get only 50% of your traffic, the remaining will be used for free affiliate ads.


There are advertisers that reward publishers for visitors that turn into paying clients. If you got a few rewards, then you probably displayed ads of such advertisers (perhaps, free affiliate ads, but not necessarily) and attracted customers to them. Sometimes advertisers add a text comment to the reward so that you understand what you got it for.

Hi, thanks for your question. This number represents your expectations. Based on this number we determine which percentage of your traffic is 'unsold' or 'undermonetized'. We use this percentage to display free affiliate ads as a last resort to monetize your traffic.

So it gives you a chance to earn affiliate rewards from our partners, but if you set it too high, it may reduce your income by making your traffic too expensive for advertisers, so I'd recommend to set this parameter to a reasonably low value.



Hi, I don't see any site at acrocbux.com. Our moderators set categories normally within 1 day after your ad unit is embedded and generates unique traffic.


It looks like the problem was automagically solved? https://a-ads.com/ad_units/300478 --- Display rate: 100%.

Thanks for your message, it looks like it works now.


Should be working fine. Do you have the latest browser with javascript enabled and adblock disabled?

Thanks for your messages, your issues have been resolved.

Yes, you can create an ad unit of type "App" and embed it wherever you want, but usually it doesn't monetize well (unless it attracts real buyers to the advertisers that reward for it).

Please let me know your ad unit id. I'll try to figure out whether the bot visited your homepage or drunk vodka in some other place. In the latter case I will haul it over the coals.

I can see that you have a good site and you've been earning something all this time.

The problem is that ~95% of your traffic is Vietnamese but unfortunately we don't have many Vietnamese advertisers. Thus the price of Vietnamese traffic is virtually 0 and you earn peanuts due to the random visitors form English-speaking countries.

Perhaps you could benefit from this situation by becoming a Vietnamese advertiser yourself? About 1% of all our publishers' traffic is Vietnamese and there is no competition among advertisers to get it.

I can see that the display rate of your ad unit #324748 is 65% and your ad unit has been categorized recently, so it should start earning more.


If you lost money due to our failure, we will find a way to compensate it. Please let me know your ad unit id so that I could have a closer look.

Thanks!

Hi guys, sorry for the late response, due to the New Year holidays most of our team was having a rest and it might cause the increased response times from our support. Please note that Winspiral is not part of our team (thanks to him for trying to help though!).

Since we are not pay-per-click neither pay-pay-impression network, unfortunately it is possible that some ad units generate traffic but don't earn anything. Normally it is not the case, but it may happen. The main reasons were the following:

1) The ad unit's code is not embedded statically on the specified URL (and thus our bot couldn't find it there)
2) The ad unit's traffic is not unique (e. g. the traffic came from another site that had a-ads banner on it)
3) The ad unit's traffic is not demanded (e. g. the traffic came from some African countries that are not targeted by the advertisers)
4) The ad unit hasn't been checked by our moderators (normally it takes up to 24 hours after it is embedded and starts generating unique impressions, but if it is not then please contact support to resolve the issue)
5) We currently have unusually low amount of active advertising campaigns. Perhaps your ad unit was not targeted by any of the advertisers. The most indiscriminate advertising campaign is our own campaign #1 (and unfortunately it run out of funds during the New Year holidays, topped up now).

We are currently working to improve the system to better monetize the publshers' traffic and make it more useful and convenient for the advertisers.

If your ad unit hasn't been categorized or doesn't generate income and our support is for some reason unhelpful, then please let me know.