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[arsenische]

I've had mixed results using Anonymous Ads, honestly. I use it on two of my blogs now. The first has done quite well, and I reached the payout of BTC0.01 in about a week on traffic of about 70-80/day. However, on the second site, the payment seems to be extremely low. My stats show that for 109 impressions, I have earned 412 satoshi. At this rate, it will take me forever to reach payout. I don't even know why there is such a huge difference in any case.

AnonymousAds doesn't pay per click or per impression. It redistributes advertisers' money with respect to ad unit's globally unique traffic. It may take some time before your site starts earning, and it will take some time to stop earning after you remove ad unit code from your site.

Also, I assume that when an ad is unavailable, it doesn't count towards the impressions? Because the second site I mentioned has fewer ad impressions than page impressions.

Default ad views count towards impressions. But only impressions from globally unique IPs/day are rewarded (unless advertisers reward you for some reason). You can see stats for unique & non-unique impressions and earnings of your ad unit here: https://a-ads.com/ad_units/3564/stats (they fluctuate greately).

I suppose that if you keep your ad unit on your site for couple of months, you will have a much higher average CPM/CPI. Please let me know if it is not the case.

Thanks for trying AnonymousAds and sorry if it didn't work for you.

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[SirLolicon]

Anonymous Ads or A-ads has been a very
good service for me

I use it for 3 of my sites
and have advertised with it as well

Though I don't really get sometimes on how
it's payment system works...

Is it based on impressions? or clicks? or unique impressions/clicks?

[ruletheworld]

I've had mixed results using Anonymous Ads, honestly. I use it on two of my blogs now. The first has done quite well, and I reached the payout of BTC0.01 in about a week on traffic of about 70-80/day. However, on the second site, the payment seems to be extremely low. My stats show that for 109 impressions, I have earned 412 satoshi. At this rate, it will take me forever to reach payout. I don't even know why there is such a huge difference in any case.

AnonymousAds doesn't pay per click or per impression. It redistributes advertisers' money with respect to ad unit's globally unique traffic. It may take some time before your site starts earning, and it will take some time to stop earning after you remove ad unit code from your site.

Also, I assume that when an ad is unavailable, it doesn't count towards the impressions? Because the second site I mentioned has fewer ad impressions than page impressions.

Default ad views count towards impressions. But only impressions from globally unique IPs/day are rewarded (unless advertisers reward you for some reason). You can see stats for unique & non-unique impressions and earnings of your ad unit here: https://a-ads.com/ad_units/3564/stats (they fluctuate greately).

I suppose that if you keep your ad unit on your site for couple of months, you will have a much higher average CPM/CPI. Please let me know if it is not the case.

Thanks for trying AnonymousAds and sorry if it didn't work for you.

Thanks for your reply. I definitely have a very good globally unique and diverse group of visitors to this site. My unique visits per day are about 40-50 on an average. I didn't see default ad views being counted towards impressions. There might be a bug - I am very certain that the ad unit must have generated more than 1000 impressions when I removed it, based on the pageviews information I have from my website's analytics. It was and is stuck at 109 impressions for a long time.

Can I put the same ad unit on a different website or do I have to create a new one for each website? I might give the same ad unit a try on a different blog.

[arsenische]

I didn't see default ad views being counted towards impressions. There might be a bug - I am very certain that the ad unit must have generated more than 1000 impressions when I removed it, based on the pageviews information I have from my website's analytics. It was and is stuck at 109 impressions for a long time.

Can I put the same ad unit on a different website or do I have to create a new one for each website? I might give the same ad unit a try on a different blog.

Thanks for your message, I will check it. Please note that we count only globally unique visitors, e. g. if your visitor had seen any of our ads before s/he visited your site (within 24 hours), then we don't count that impression as a unique one.

You can do whatever you want with your ad unit. If you remove it from your site, it's health will go down to 0 and it won't show ads from advertisers that don't allow anonymous traffic.

But while you send buyers to our advertisers or generate globally unique impressions with that ad unit, you are likely to earn something no matter how you do it.

Though I don't really get sometimes on how
it's payment system works...

Is it based on impressions? or clicks? or unique impressions/clicks?

1. We redistribute advertiser's money between ad units with respect to their globally unique traffic (and redistribute ad unit's impressions between advertisers with respect to their payments). We use some internal formula to calculate weight of each ad unit (it depends on unique impressions & unique clicks). Thus ad units that generate globally unique traffic with reasonable CTR should earn more.

2. We allow advertisers to buy part of impressions from particular ad units (you can hover our logo on ad unit and see "Your ad here" link). Thus publishers that embed ad units on nicer places should earn more.

3. We allow advertisers to reward ad units for efficient traffic via goal tracking. Thus ad units that send customers to advertisers should earn more.

[ruletheworld]

Ok, so I got a screenshot of my Google Analytics exactly during this time frame (May 25-June2):



You can see I had 350+ unique visitors. I had the ad unit live throughout. You can see the a-ads statistics in my previous link. The impressions that you counted are way below even the number of unique visits (in reality, you said impressions count even for multiple pages of a single visit, so they should be higher). This is why I thought there might be something wrong. I would be more than happy to give this another try if you think it will count and give me credit for all my impressions.

[ruletheworld]

Ok, so I got a screenshot of my Google Analytics exactly during this time frame (May 25-June2):



You can see I had 350+ unique visitors. I had the ad unit live throughout. You can see the a-ads statistics in my previous link. The impressions that you counted are way below even the number of unique visits (in reality, you said impressions count even for multiple pages of a single visit, so they should be higher). This is why I thought there might be something wrong. I would be more than happy to give this another try if you think it will count and give me credit for all my impressions.

Cause he isn't counting unique views to your site, he is counting the unique views of the entire ad views. So if a person visits a site that has a-ads on it, then goes to your site, you don't get any impression for that.

Oh really? First of all, that sounds terrible. Secondly, I also highly doubt that 70% of my audience has visited a site that has a-ads on it before. Also, I think he said your impression count goes up for duplicate views, it just doesn't show up in the earnings - there are detailed stats for both "unique" and "overall" views that seem to cover the situation that you are describing.

[Matoking]

My ad spot's health has dwindled down to zero, even though I'm getting impressions and the ad is displayed on every page in BitBin :
https://a-ads.com/ad_units/185

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Looks like the ads are all over the place, liked the idea.

Q: can a single advertiser check his personal stats per ad unit ?

Thanks

[arsenische]

My ad spot's health has dwindled down to zero, even though I'm getting impressions and the ad is displayed on every page in BitBin :
https://a-ads.com/ad_units/185

It has been fixed, sorry for late response.

Q: can a single advertiser check his personal stats per ad unit ?

Sorry, we don't have this feature yet. But you can track ad units that refer visitors to you. If you enable goal tracking for your campaign, AnonymousAds will send you some ID of the form "<campaign_id>_<ad_unit_id>" with each visitor. You can customize how this ID is appended to your link (default template is "?partner=%") and use Google Analytics for charts.

You can also register goals (i. e. schedule rewards) for ad units that generate efficient traffic for you via goal tracking API or manually (money will be deducted from your campaigns' balance and paid to ad units thus increasing your share of impressions from those ad units and optimizing your campaign).

Thanks for your message!

[hendo420]

I had one of your banner ads on my site and signed up for Google Adwords and they wouldn't approve me till I removed it. They said your ad was malicious so I was forced to remove it. Any idea why Google thinks your malicious?


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Thanks for your patience while our specialists reviewed your website: www.dailybit.net

I'm sorry to inform you that the site is still not compliant per our malware policy as the site still contains infected content. But please don't worry, as I would like to provide you more information regarding this, so you can fix the problem with the site.

I have gone through your site and found that it has been disabled because we have found a redirect to a compromised site from your HTTP server logs. The malicious domain URLs in question are http://ad.a-ads.com/, http://s.a-ads.com and http://static.a-ads.com
Please check your site request logs to find the bad domain and resolve the compromise. StopBadware has a resource page for cleaning up and securing compromised sites available at: http://www.stopbadware.org/home/security

I suggest contacting your hosting provider if you're unsure of how to proceed and ensure that the site no longer contains any malicious content.

Since your site was compromised, it's important to not only remove the malicious (and usually hidden) content from your pages, but also to identify and fix the vulnerability that allowed harmful content to appear. Otherwise, the site will remain vulnerable to repeated infection. So I'd suggest that you please take steps to secure the site as well. Your webmaster/ web hosting services provider should be able to assist you with this.

If we no longer detect potentially malicious content on your URL, your site will automatically be reactivated and you should receive a notification regarding the same in the next 2-3 business days.

Post that, please allow 24 hours for any temporary "site suspended" messaging to go away. Your ads will resume serving normally then.

This should resolve your issue. Please do get in touch if you have any further queries or concerns or if you need any further clarification and I'll be happy to help. I regret any inconvenience caused and appreciate your understanding.


Have a pleasant day ahead. Take care.

Sincerely,

Sudipta

[arsenische]

I had one of your banner ads on my site and signed up for Google Adwords and they wouldn't approve me till I removed it. They said your ad was malicious so I was forced to remove it. Any idea why Google thinks your malicious?


Quoted from the email

Thanks for your patience while our specialists reviewed your website: www.dailybit.net

I'm sorry to inform you that the site is still not compliant per our malware policy as the site still contains infected content. But please don't worry, as I would like to provide you more information regarding this, so you can fix the problem with the site.

I have gone through your site and found that it has been disabled because we have found a redirect to a compromised site from your HTTP server logs. The malicious domain URLs in question are http://ad.a-ads.com/, http://s.a-ads.com and http://static.a-ads.com
Please check your site request logs to find the bad domain and resolve the compromise. StopBadware has a resource page for cleaning up and securing compromised sites available at: http://www.stopbadware.org/home/security

I suggest contacting your hosting provider if you're unsure of how to proceed and ensure that the site no longer contains any malicious content.

Since your site was compromised, it's important to not only remove the malicious (and usually hidden) content from your pages, but also to identify and fix the vulnerability that allowed harmful content to appear. Otherwise, the site will remain vulnerable to repeated infection. So I'd suggest that you please take steps to secure the site as well. Your webmaster/ web hosting services provider should be able to assist you with this.

If we no longer detect potentially malicious content on your URL, your site will automatically be reactivated and you should receive a notification regarding the same in the next 2-3 business days.

Post that, please allow 24 hours for any temporary "site suspended" messaging to go away. Your ads will resume serving normally then.

This should resolve your issue. Please do get in touch if you have any further queries or concerns or if you need any further clarification and I'll be happy to help. I regret any inconvenience caused and appreciate your understanding.


Have a pleasant day ahead. Take care.

Sincerely,

Sudipta

Thanks for your message, I appreciate this info! I don't know why it considers a-ads to be malicious. The ad doesn't even have javascript in it, just pure static html content with possibly an image in it. How can it be malicious?

Google's tool doesn't identify our site as malicious: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://a-ads.com , http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://static.a-ads.com , http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://s.a-ads.com .

So I don't even know how to start solving this problem. Anybody has ideas?

[hendo420]

Maybe they are trying to kill the competition. lol

This wont stop me from running campaigns with you. I hope you can get this fixed so you can get more sites signs up so my ads get to more eyes.

If you get it fixed let me know and I'll put a banner back on my site.

[arsenische]

Deployed changes related to our fee model: deposit fees removed, advertisers can withdraw unspent funds, referrers get their cut from collected fees daily.

[bbit]

Maybe they are trying to kill the competition. lol

This wont stop me from running campaigns with you. I hope you can get this fixed so you can get more sites signs up so my ads get to more eyes.

If you get it fixed let me know and I'll put a banner back on my site.

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[arsenische]

Maybe they are trying to kill the competition. lol

This wont stop me from running campaigns with you. I hope you can get this fixed so you can get more sites signs up so my ads get to more eyes.

If you get it fixed let me know and I'll put a banner back on my site.

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I am sorry, I just don't know what to do with it. The site is not blacklisted.

https://www.stopbadware.org/clearinghouse/search/?url=https://a-ads.com

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=https://a-ads.com

http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/a-ads.com

Is there any evidence that it contains malware? Whom should I contact? I don't know, I need your advise on how to handle this situation.

[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

Tried an ad: https://a-ads.com/campaigns/564

Will be reporting back with the performance. How do I set anonymous traffic to no?

[arsenische]

Tried an ad: https://a-ads.com/campaigns/564

Will be reporting back with the performance. How do I set anonymous traffic to no?

You can do it upon campaign creation, but there is no way to edit targeting parameters of existing campaigns currently. I've set anonymous traffic to "no" for campaign #564. Thanks for trying it!

[conspirosphere.tk]

I have several ads on each of a few low-traffic autoblogs of mine (not no-traffic), and I stopped receiving payments in june (probably due to a minimum threshold established for payments in that period).

Since they are all pointing to one or 2 wallets of mine, I would like if you can find a way to join the payments to the same wallet from several ads so that I get paid more frequently (if at all).
Thanks

edit: maybe there is a way in which I could do it setting up campaigns, but I can't figure it out and I think that it would be much easier for you to join the payments to the same addresses.

[arsenische]

I have several ads on each of a few low-traffic autoblogs of mine (not no-traffic), and I stopped receiving payments in june (probably due to a minimum threshold established for payments in that period).

Since they are all pointing to one or 2 wallets of mine, I would like if you can find a way to join the payments to the same wallet from several ads so that I get paid more frequently (if at all).
Thanks

edit: maybe there is a way in which I could do it setting up campaigns, but I can't figure it out and I think that it would be much easier for you to join the payments to the same addresses.

Sorry, there is no such feature yet, but I realize this feature is important for low-traffic sites and should be implemented. Do you watch stats of your ad units? If you haven't received payments, that doesn't mean they don't earn anything. You can easily check balance of any ad unit (either use search to find it by url, or use its ID, e. g. http://a-ads.com/ad_units/<ID>/stats).

Thanks for your feedback!

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