Well... I have some php example for tracking it (https://github.com/arsenische/aaap), and I plan to develop even simpler mechanism, but I need some time to think it over. My first priority right now is to resume payments to affiliates. So I am working on that feature now, plan to finish in couple days. I hope that affiliates add their sites by that time.

No problem, I fixed that. Thanks for participation!


Advertisers are supposed do the following 2 steps:
1) pay any amount to Anonymous Ads to bootstrap their ads (to get some impressions and to get connected to affiliates).
2) track bitcoin addresses passed as GET parameter and use those addresses to reward affiliates for successful visits (thus getting more impressions & visits from them)

Main source of income for affiliates should be step 2. But for some reason it doesn't work: most advertisers don't do step 2.

So I need to spend money received at step 1 to support affiliates for showing ads.

However (unlike advertisers) I can't detect successful visits to reward affiliates. And I don't want to pay botnets for fake clicks and impressions.

So I am developing a solution to reward affiliates with respect to weights of sites they have their codes on. Affiliates that advertise on sites with positive weights will receive additional support (proportional to 'weight' and 'health' of sites, and affiliate's 'share' of those sites).

Sorry for the long message... did it answer you question?

I am not sure, but probably advertisers are doing wrong not paying to you. You got registered just couple days ago, maybe they will.

Anonymous Ads doesn't pay for clicks/impressions anymore since there is no easy way for it to distinguish productive clicks and impressions from the ones generated by botnets.

Good news is that Anonymous Ads will be paying you for having your affiliate code on your sites if you add them to the list.

Weight is a rough estimation of site's value. Right now I am using http://www.getwebsitevalue.com to set the value, but it can be changed any time. So you can think of it as of some arbitrary integer number. Its absolute value means nothing, but it relative value will be used to distribute bitcoins between affiliates that have their ads on those sites.

New feature:

Everybody can submit a site now.

Anonymous Ads will periodically query the submitted sites, link them to affiliates and adjust some stats (it may take a while to see reasonable numbers there).

I will evaluate each site manually and assign a weight to it. Some of the bootstrap money will be distributed between affiliates of submitted sites with respect to this weight and affiliate's share of the site (the share is estimated automatically).

Have not decided yet how much and how often I am going to pay, but it will definitely increase the income of affiliates.

So, please submit your sites.

I can't unsee myself in the garden.. but flowers are burning now!

I see myself in the garden (looking at the flowers).

So your site generates less than 1k unique impressions/month, but your traffic is high quality and is valuable for particular advertisers, thus you expect about 1.5 btc/month for it?


Yes, it works now! Thanks!

Thanks for your message. For some reason http://glbse.blogspot.co.uk/ doesn't work for me

And what are your minimal income expectations?

Dailybitcoins.com charges 0.05 btc for thousand impressions. I can support you with 0.08 btc/month for leaving your affiliate code on first pages of your sites (+ affiliate and referral income from it are essentially yours). Do you accept the offer?

Regarding referrals: referral payments are 10% of bootstrap payments made by advertisers you refer.

IFRAME and JS versions of ads already contain referral link in it, but graphic ads don't.

So if you want to get referral payments but you can't use IFRAME or JS code, then you need to use the referral link from your affiliate page (feel free to modify it as you like, but leave your withdrawal address there:)).

I am stopping supporting affiliates on behalf of advertisers because it gives incentive for fraud and distorts statistics. Only advertisers are able to reward affiliates for successful visits to get the more impressions for cheap. And it will be cheaper if I don't interfere.

Since advertisers don't always do it, I'll use some of bootstrap money to support affiliates directly (it won't be shown in stats).

Dear affiliates, if you are not satisfied with your income from Anonymous Ads, please let me know your affiliate addresses, urls of your websites and your income expectations.

I might be interested in renting your ad space for 1-12 months or in supporting you directly when your income is less than your minimal expectations. I have about 10 btc to spend right now and I'd like to use it to augment the affiliate network.

(updated original post)

Recent changes: affiliates can see how much they earned from referrals and how much they have left to withdraw. Referral link is also explicitly shown on the affiliate's page. You can use that link to attract advertisers and to receive 10% of their bootstrap deposits.

You can choose any version that works best for your site, affiliate code is at  http://anonymousads.com/affiliate/16BJmWmnEV4AJfmPnbxZkytae5VWU4FozN

If you want to style the ad, then please use the JS version.

Please give me your bitcoin address so that I could send 4 btc to you.


Seems like you already removed it. I added graphic version to your list (http://thebitcoinreview.com/addbanner.php) for test, but it didn't give me any deposit address.


That's great! I suggest you monetize your traffic with anonymous ads until you sell all the ad space

I like the idea, but I don't know an easy & reliable way to implement it. As I said, bitcoind doesn't give much control over bitcoin addresses. If there is some simple & reliable tool compatible with bitcoind that allows doing it, I would definitely consider implementing this feature.

I believe it is correct, but sometimes it might be not. I have no control over this process, bitcoind chooses inputs for the transaction.


Yes, I believe in most cases it is correct. But I can't guarantee it: bitcoind might choose some internal addresses as inputs for the transaction, in that case those money will probably remain in my wallet unnoticed by the system.

There is a brief explanation. There is also a php example of tracking affiliate addresses and rewarding them. There is no much documentation yet, but I can help you set it up for free.

great! btw, why does your affiliate program generate some ref id (such as http://www.steamccoin.net/?refid=3d7986063b) instead of using bitcoin address as refid?

if you use bitcoin address, it would be more efficient to advertise with anonymousads since affiliate payments would improve your reward score and give more impressions.

but you still have broken links at the bottom (Home // About // FAQs // Contact)

yes, but I need advertisers who allow any bitcion address to be used as affiliate id

why not to use bitcoin address as affiliate id? then no need to generate anything..

that's exactly what https://github.com/arsenische/aaap does (you are welcome to use it)

update: I can help you for free too, and it will allow you to advertise with Anonymous Ads and pay to affiliates that give successful visits for you.

adamstgBit, I've noticed a web-interface for adding ads at thebitcoinreview.com:

http://thebitcoinreview.com/addbanner.php

I'm a bit confused: do you sell the same ad space in 2 places with different conditions?