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[baztardo]

Let me know your website or ad space ref and I will look at it

https://mellowads.com/networkspace/A8318635DDF5

Ok I've done quite a bit of digging around here and found the following...

1) For your unique views vs Google Analytics.
I can't see any problem here - the figures that are showing at https://mellowads.com/networkspace/A8318635DDF5 are accurate (in that they represent the correct counts that we have for this ad space). You have a very small % of invalid views - less than 2% which is more than acceptable, so this is isn't having any significant effect.

Are you sure that you are comparing the correct figures in Analytics? Don't forget that our figures are for unique views per day - and that we have our own algorithms for determining unique-ness, which are probably slightly different to what Analytics uses.

However taking yesterday (2015-07-22) for example you had a total of 8,763 unique views. Your Alexa rank is 37,288 - so we can use that as a rough guide to compare against other sites...

- 777bitco.in has a similar Alexa rank of 38,790 - as you can see from http://mellowads.com/networkspace/9521E5F4C671 they had a total of 7.892 unique views yesterday.
- www.robotcoingame.com has Alexa rank 25,270 - see at http://mellowads.com/networkspace/5DE2769D6DC6 they has a total of 11,894 unique views yesterday.
- bitcoinzebra.com has Alexa rank 12,141 -  see at http://mellowads.com/networkspace/7671CF1A2EBE they had a total of 27,120 unique views yesterday.

So I think it is safe to say that your figures seem fairly consistent when compared in this way - against other similar quality faucet sites. And you would have to be up with much higher Alexa rank to be expecting the 24,000 unique views per day that you are saying that Analytics is reporting.

So you say that Google Analitycs is not accurate ?
I have other statistics also : http://prntscr.com/7w2mgi
This show 31.720 unique views for yestraday (same as Analytics) and your stats show only 8763
The banner is on the first page, so the users must open the first page (they can't claim without go and insert their BTC address on the first page)
It is over  3 x difference ...
How do you count the unique views ?  By IP?  cookies?
Also : no offence : you know that Alexa is a shit ... (I can make a promo campaign today and Alexa will update in 2 weeks..)

When I write this reply my adspace (https://mellowads.com/networkspace/A8318635DDF5) has the highest number of clicks from all the newtwork : 142 unique clicks,  and only 6,721 unique views (counted by your system)  and 20000 counted by my system.

Nope, I definitely didn't say that Google Analytics is inaccurate. And yes, Alexa isn't great for detailed analytics but it is useful for comparing relative traffic between sites - which is all I was using it for here.
I don't know what the application is that created those stats in your screenshot, so I can't really comment on how it calculates unique views.

Just for comparison here are the Google Analytics stats and Mellow Ads stats for Bitcoin Zebra http://mellowads.com/networkspace/7671CF1A2EBE for the last 7 days...

Google Analytics: http://prntscr.com/7w9z93
Mellow Ads: http://prntscr.com/7w9yu7

Hopefully you can see that these are fairly similar (hovering around 25k each day) - despite the fact that GA uses a different way to count unique views (cookie based, runs from a client side script) to MA (IP address based, runs on server side on each page request).
It is important to note we are showing Users for the GA stats, which is the most similar to unique views - see http://cutroni.com/blog/2014/02/05/understanding-digital-analytics-data/ for a decent explanation of the difference between Hits, Sessions and Users.
Are you sure you are looking at Users in your GA stats? If you are looking at Sessions then it would be reasonable to say that this would be much higher (like 3x difference as you are saying) especially for a faucet site.

[superiorus]

Yes,  my bad .. I was looking for "sessions" not for "users"

I'm glad we clear that.

You stats for my adspace show 10779 unique visits and GA show : 13839 unique visits

It is a bit closer

[ranlo]

Yes,  my bad .. I was looking for "sessions" not for "users"

I'm glad we clear that.

You stats for my adspace show 10779 unique visits and GA show : 13839 unique visits

It is a bit closer

Those numbers are likely both correct. The important thing to remember is that people use adblock. On my gaming site, ~29% of all visitors are using adblock (there are apps that will track this for you, by counting page loads vs. how many times its ad code is run vs. blocked). So in your case, it's very possible that you're getting 14k visitors, but 3/14=20% of them are using adblock.

[ragi]

Yes,  my bad .. I was looking for "sessions" not for "users"

I'm glad we clear that.

You stats for my adspace show 10779 unique visits and GA show : 13839 unique visits

It is a bit closer

Those numbers are likely both correct. The important thing to remember is that people use adblock. On my gaming site, ~29% of all visitors are using adblock (there are apps that will track this for you, by counting page loads vs. how many times its ad code is run vs. blocked). So in your case, it's very possible that you're getting 14k visitors, but 3/14=20% of them are using adblock.

Also there's people that add analytics codes to their adblock. I know because I do this.

[superiorus]

Yes,  my bad .. I was looking for "sessions" not for "users"

I'm glad we clear that.

You stats for my adspace show 10779 unique visits and GA show : 13839 unique visits

It is a bit closer

Those numbers are likely both correct. The important thing to remember is that people use adblock. On my gaming site, ~29% of all visitors are using adblock (there are apps that will track this for you, by counting page loads vs. how many times its ad code is run vs. blocked). So in your case, it's very possible that you're getting 14k visitors, but 3/14=20% of them are using adblock.

I use adblock detector on first page (where the user must insert the btc address)  and on claim page

I think is still working , but you guys can test it : http://bitcoinspace.net/freebitcoins

[ranlo]

Yes,  my bad .. I was looking for "sessions" not for "users"

I'm glad we clear that.

You stats for my adspace show 10779 unique visits and GA show : 13839 unique visits

It is a bit closer

Those numbers are likely both correct. The important thing to remember is that people use adblock. On my gaming site, ~29% of all visitors are using adblock (there are apps that will track this for you, by counting page loads vs. how many times its ad code is run vs. blocked). So in your case, it's very possible that you're getting 14k visitors, but 3/14=20% of them are using adblock.

I use adblock detector on first page (where the user must insert the btc address)  and on claim page

I think is still working , but you guys can test it : http://bitcoinspace.net/freebitcoins

Those things are so irritating, I've been debating releasing a public list people can subscribe to that does nothing but block these stupid adblock-blockers to nullify them.

[minifrij]

Those things are so irritating, I've been debating releasing a public list people can subscribe to that does nothing but block these stupid adblock-blockers to nullify them.

While I do use AdBlock, it isn't very irritating to click on an icon and turn it off for the page. Usually two clicks.
For sites like faucets that need this advertising revenue, I would say that two clicks isn't too awful to get around the blockers.

[ranlo]

Those things are so irritating, I've been debating releasing a public list people can subscribe to that does nothing but block these stupid adblock-blockers to nullify them.

While I do use AdBlock, it isn't very irritating to click on an icon and turn it off for the page. Usually two clicks.
For sites like faucets that need this advertising revenue, I would say that two clicks isn't too awful to get around the blockers.

It's not disabling AdBlock that's the issue. It's all the sites that have 30+ ads on them that are. It's extremely annoying. I just don't know if I want to hurt faucets by doing this... I feel they're the ones acting unethical, but the damage could be irreparable.

[BTCFaucets]

Please add an option for publishers to remove active cpm/cpc campaigns that are undesirable.

[Brad Harrison]

Any plans to add CPC network ads? As a advertiser I would like to advertise on the whole network instead of choosing each site

[ragi]

Please add an option for publishers to remove active cpm/cpc campaigns that are undesirable.

Can this really be implemented?

[ranlo]

Please add an option for publishers to remove active cpm/cpc campaigns that are undesirable.

Can this really be implemented?

It'd work just the same as network ads. The only difference is instead of splitting payments among all sites, it would just pay each site based on the # of clicks. So yes, it's doable, and the framework should already be there.

[superiorus]

Please add an option for publishers to remove active cpm/cpc campaigns that are undesirable.

Can this really be implemented?

I hope yes
I vote for YES.

[shulio]

Any plans to add CPC network ads? As a advertiser I would like to advertise on the whole network instead of choosing each site

This will not be a good option because every site has their own alexa rank and that is the point why one site is different than the others. You cant rent the whole network for CPC because not every site has the same click amount in one day

[adbtc.info]

Any plans to add CPC network ads? As a advertiser I would like to advertise on the whole network instead of choosing each site

This will not be a good option because every site has their own alexa rank and that is the point why one site is different than the others. You cant rent the whole network for CPC because not every site has the same click amount in one day

This is not related in any way. Each site will still be payed the desired CPC. Advertisers could just set a max price per click to avoid expensive sites.

[ahmedjadoon]

we should be able to stop/cancel our campaign any time we want or even make changes to the ad associated with the campaign. Adbit.co is still better in this regard.

[ranlo]

Any plans to add CPC network ads? As a advertiser I would like to advertise on the whole network instead of choosing each site

This will not be a good option because every site has their own alexa rank and that is the point why one site is different than the others. You cant rent the whole network for CPC because not every site has the same click amount in one day

What does number of clicks per site have to do with anything? They get paid per click -- it's simple. If one site gets 10 clicks and one gets 100, the one with 100 will get paid 10x as much. The amount the advertiser pays is the same per click, so they don't care where it's from, as long as it's real.

[Salmen]

Do I get a higher payout if I add more banners on my site?

Cheers
Salmen

[ONLYfree]

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[monalia]

Hi, sir. I'm just join MellowAds as publisher. I want ask to you. How many minimun withdraw ? Instant payment or Manual payment? Good luck for you