The MellowAds rant

[bitzerfaucet]

Hey guys, I wanted to share my horrible experience with MellowAds.

Once upon a time, at 500k rank (silly me), I decided to apply to MellowAds (in 14th of March). As obvious, in less than an hour i get an email saying this:

Hi

After careful review we have unfortunately had to reject your website ('bitzer.com.es') for the reasons given below...

Rejection reason: 'We only accept websites that have an Alexa Ranking in the top 200,000'

Please see our Website approval guidelines for further details.

Kind Regards
Mellow Ads Support

I knew that I was going to get rejected.
But one day, when my site passed the 300k rank (http://bitzer.com.es), I filled the Website Rejection Appeal form from them (on the 6th of April). So, I waited and waited and waited and waited... and no response.

Then I decided to contact support to see if they had a response about the appeal. So, I write them an email saying this (on the 11th of April): Hello, can you review my site if its eligible for Mellow Ads? So, I waited for them for a response and nothing.

Then on the 28th of April, I wrote them ANOTHER email saying the following: It's been 2 weeks that i filed an Website Rejection Appeal form. And no response until today. And, as expected, no reply.

Then, next week, I wrote them ANOTHER email (in the 3rd of May) saying the same context as the last one. And, you guessed it, no reply.

I'm writing this on the 12th of June. Three emails without response. Tickets are ALL opened 'til this date.

Also, they only focus on the Alexa rank, not the actual traffic that a website is getting (which I think is important). For example, let's take an adspace from the very trusted bitcoin shortener, ProLink from user alamin99. On Mellow it shows that it has 5k all views daily. Which is good but on my site, the 728x90 banner ad from BitMedia at the "same place", it has 8k impressions. Don't you think it doesn't make sense?

Hopefully this gets somewhere.

[mrcash02]

That is how things work there... If you don't have 200K rank, don't waste your time trying to be accepted by them.

Why don't you try to apply again when you hit the minimum rank requirement?

[bitzerfaucet]

That is how things work there... If you don't have 200K rank, don't waste your time trying to be accepted by them.

Why don't you try to apply again when you hit the minimum rank requirement?

Because there are some websites that are in Mellow without 200k rank and I don't find it fair.

[mrcash02]

That is how things work there... If you don't have 200K rank, don't waste your time trying to be accepted by them.

Why don't you try to apply again when you hit the minimum rank requirement?

Because there are some websites that are in Mellow without 200k rank and I don't find it fair.

Maybe they lost rank meanwhile they were already accepted by Mellow?

Open a new ticket and ask them why those sites are in without the 200K rank.

I just think it's a good network to don't use, if I were you I wouldn't miss the chance to try it, but just with 200K rank.

[George.FAUTSY]

That is how things work there... If you don't have 200K rank, don't waste your time trying to be accepted by them.

Why don't you try to apply again when you hit the minimum rank requirement?

Because there are some websites that are in Mellow without 200k rank and I don't find it fair.

till october 2016 they were accepting faucets with alexa Top 1M. If you submit your website for approval but it is outside the top 200,000 Alexa ranking then it will be automatically rejected. than waiting for their response better try improving your alexa rank and then re-apply.

[robattfield]

The Alexa rank for my bitcoin faucet rotator (http://freebtc.website/) has always been below 200K, and I have been displaying their banners for over a year now. I don't have enough resources to get an Alexa ranking that high - it would be fantastic if I got legitimate traffic to get that ranking (currently 516,000).

[tungaqhd]

The Alexa rank for my bitcoin faucet rotator (http://freebtc.website/) has always been below 200K, and I have been displaying their banners for over a year now. I don't have enough resources to get an Alexa ranking that high - it would be fantastic if I got legitimate traffic to get that ranking (currently 516,000).

You can boot your rank (i am not telling here), it may take a month.
Then if you have good and legit traffic, you can earn money.
Some white hat trick is:

• Get more traffic from social network
• Seo your website

[superiorus]

Even with a 200k Alexa, I don't think Mellow Ads will accept your "website"
Your "website" is just... a simple page with some links to other faucets.
You need more than that to be accepted as publisher.