Yes, they are optional. Goals (and RSA keys) are for those who don't want to modify their databases and to maintain the lists of affiliates on their sites.

You can reward affiliates for sales. That is the recommended way of doing it.

But if you don't have enough impressions or sales yet, you can reward affiliates for nothing just to get more impressions from them. I would reward affiliates that advertise on particular sites (you can also search them).

Javascript version of affiliate's code can work asynchronously now (that means it shouldn't slow down loading of affiliate's page).

Affiliates that use js-code might be interested in adding defer and async attributes to it, e.g.:

I don't believe 30 images is the true reason of his detention.

Chrome extension is not a site, but it definitely deserves to be seen by advertisers. Maybe in future I develop a feature to list alternative ad places, but currently I suggest that you create a single page site (at least a forum/blog post) devoted to it and embed the same affiliate code into it. You could explain there that that ad is shown on extension too. The link to that site (or post) can be added to the site list.


I keep in mind that affiliates need a better control for the ads they display. I think I will come with a solution some day, just need to find time and set priorities

New feature: Anonymous Ads sends user agent = "Anonymous Ads" to HTTP server when it checks the listed sites.

Site owners can use it to serve a special version of the web page in case if they can't show ads on the exact URL specified in the list (e.g. they allow NSFW ads but need to show a warning before showing them, or URL corresponds to a frameset or swf application).

Please don't misuse this feature: sites that don't show ads to people but serve it for AA bot can be penalized or (I don't like this word) banned.

New feature: advertisers can now get connected to affiliates they choose and to get a lot of impressions for insanely low prices (though it may change quickly).

To do so, just find the desired Affiliate and enter Ad# to create (or find) a relay that connects that Ad to that Affiliate.

You can use search to find affiliates related to sites.

For example, let's say you want to show ad #109 on some site which has "anon" in its url. You can do the following:

1) use search mechanism to find the desired site
2) navigate to affiliate that shows ads on that site, see estimation of advertising cost (~0.001 btc/day for 45% of impressions currently, but it can change anytime depending on advertisers' behaviour)
3) type in ad # and captcha, press "Get reward address" (you'll be redirected to the corresponding relay page)
4) see Ad's reward score for that Affiliate and the estimated percentage of impressions Ad receives from Affiliate
6) deposit any amount to Reward address to proportionally increase the reward score and that percentage

sorry, withdrawal address is read only

Nice! And you are the last person who receives 0.01 btc bonus from me.

These bonuses helped me to attract new members and brought me much more bitcoins than I spent on them. But now I have a feeling that most members come from external sources, not from this forum. I believe there is already a critical mass of members that can pay similar bonuses to attract their referrals themselves

New feature: simple search mechanism. Now you can find ad, affiliate, site, relay (reward address) or goal by substring of some of their attributes. And also for each reward address you can see the linked Ad and Affiliate.

Created Anonymous Ads group at coinconnect.org. You are welcome to use it for discussions too

Good questions.

I haven't created any accounting and financial reports. But the system if transparent, everybody can see that advertisers paid almost 160 btc in total (124 btc to bootstrap ads + 33 btc paid to affiliates). Currently at least 40% of bootstrap money is profit, so total profit can be estimated as 64 btc. Though the main advertiser is me with ad #1 (56 btc deposited) and I have spent something on hosting, domain name, advertising with other services, etc, and I spend my time supporting it.. So I wouldn't say it has any monthly profit.

But I can say that it shows ads to about 25-30 thousand unique IPs according to site stats and about 260 thousands daily hits according to apache logs analyzed by webalizer. And this number gradually grows. I hope that the growth will become exponential when I solve usability and scalability issues.

Hi, friends!

I can see that several competitors of Anonymous Ads appeared within last few days. They all are quite decent and promising services and I wish them good luck.

But I don't want to loose the competition, so I need to accelerate development of Anonymous Ads. Many things need to be done: create unique design, develop many new features, improve usability, scalability and reliability. I hope to do it during a month or two. I believe that when it is "ready", it should magically become very popular (if not - then some marketing needs to be done too).

So now I am trying to raise 1000 btc via selling 10% share of future profits at GLBSE.

It is only ~5000 USD (that is an average monthly salary of american software developer) for 10% of future profits (that could be.. well.. i don't really want to compare it with AdSense...).

There are 100000 AA shares issued at GLBSE. I currently own ~99930 shares, and ~70 has been sold to random people at random prices. I just created a sell order for 10000 shares (that is 10% of all the issued shares) at 0.1 btc/share.

So you if you want to help AA - buy some shares. It could be a nice investment opportunity. I promise to be very careful & responsible with your investments

You are also missing throughads.com -- looks very promising too.. though I  probably shouldn't advertise competitors

How do you measure traffic? Anonymous Ads doesn't count impressions from the same IP more than 1 time during 24 hours (according to internal logs it gives about 10 times more impressions than it shows in stats).

Unlike other services, AA doesn't pay per click or per impression, thus publishers don't have incentive for generating fake clicks and impressions (they don't get paid for it).

What's your ad # at anonymous ads?

Thanks )


1 advertiser installed goal tracking (http://anonymousads.com/goal/6) and received 1 btc to bootstrap his ad.

4 btc left.

I am sorry, I didn't fully understand it. I issued AA asset and thus I have AA and BTC accounts in my profile. Does the fee apply when I send shares from my AA account to my BTC account?

I think it would be very useful to have the following info on portfolio page:

• 3 additional columns for each portfolio position: 1) weighted price I paid for it; 2) the actual highest bid for it; 3) estimated profit/loss (the difference between 2 and 1 times amount).
• the estimated value of portfolio (including btc balance)

@Matoking: sorry to hear that.. I hope you catch up quickly.. maybe this little promotion attracts more money

New promotion for advertisers

First 5 ads that successfully set up and use AA's goal tracking feature to reward affiliates will receive 1 btc to their deposit addresses.

I am sorry for a stupid question... But what is the url of the site?

Updated original post just to make it nicer and to remove old stuff.


I think they do. Higher the filtration level -- lower the competition between advertisers (because less advertisers qualify the filtration criteria). On the other hand some advertisers could reward particular safe sites to get more impressions from them. All the stats are in the database that is published daily. I don't have convenient tool to visualize them yet.