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[ahmedjadoon]

How much Bitcoin do you get per 1000 views? How much do you get per click?

I have 200+ impressions and 1 click (started a couple hours ago) and only have 151 satoshis 

Certainly i'm not gonna get 1000 satoshis or less for 1000 impressions?

Well considering my experience it is not bad rate.I have been getting just a few thousand Satoshi for every 10,000 unique visits I sent.

[Lionel]

Guys i have an Ad Unit and i want to add categories to it

Now the categories i have are


Categories:

Digital world > Advertising
Bitcoin > Advertising


i can't find the way to add other ones, help please 

thx

[arsenische]

is there a problem with the DNS for all a-ads sub domains like ad.a-ads.com? At least with the DNS server from "Deutsche Telekom" I get the answer Host ad.a-ads.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) (since two days)
If I ask several other open DNS server like google or dyndns I always get a different IP. May this is ok because of the Round-robin DNS or similar technics. Everything else is working just the sub domains of a-ads not. Is there an issue with Deutsche Telekom? Because the DNS server from Arcor (another german internet provider) is answering.

Thanks for your message. Yes, we use round-robin technique, and it seems to be working just fine. But recently we received a letter from Microsoft (!?) that some users might be affected by DNS issue due to the blocked TCP port on our DNS servers. We'll need to find a solution for that.

Only thing that concerns me is I had well over 5,000 unique visitors yesterday, and only 2,000 impressions. It's not adding up.

That is actually a ripoff. a-ads.com needs to raise their rates.

There are no fixed rates since we are not pay-per-impression network. CPM is just an average indicator, not a fixed rate. It depends on advertisers' behavior and differs a lot from ad unit to ad unit, from category to category too.

Guys i have an Ad Unit and i want to add categories to it

You can't, sorry. Categories are assigned manually by us, it may take a while, especially for sites with low PageRank. Trash sites may remain in the Unknown category forever.

If you have a quality site, please let me know your ad unit id to make it quicker. Low quality sites can be moved back to the Unknown category anytime if they generate fake traffic or are banned by many advertisers.

[Btcrockk]

arsenische What is the logic of Health parameter, and why it was 100% yesterday but it is 17% today - my site is up
last 24hrs. Ad unit - 23562

[arsenische]

arsenische What is the logic of Health parameter, and why it was 100% yesterday but it is 17% today - my site is up
last 24hrs. Ad unit - 23562

Thanks for your question. Health is an estimated probability of Ad Unit code to be present on the specified URL. Our bot visits the URL time to time, checks whether the code is there and updates the value. If you remove ad unit from your site (or if it is not available for some other reasons) the health will gradually drop to 0.

[Btcrockk]

arsenische What is the logic of Health parameter, and why it was 100% yesterday but it is 17% today - my site is up
last 24hrs. Ad unit - 23562

Thanks for your question. Health is an estimated probability of Ad Unit code to be present on the specified URL. Our bot visits the URL time to time, checks whether the code is there and updates the value. If you remove ad unit from your site (or if it is not available for some other reasons) the health will gradually drop to 0.

As i see health also affects on revenue ? And why health status on my ads is still 15%
And what about inner pages with captchas ? How bot can go into it and check ad banner?

[arsenische]

As i see health also affects on revenue ? And why health status on my ads is still 15%
And what about inner pages with captchas ? How bot can go into it and check ad banner?

The health of your ad unit 23562 is dropping because there is no ad unit code on your site. Health doesn't directly affect your income, but it can affect indirectly: ad units with low health are treated as anonymous traffic sources, advertisers can disallow such ad units for their campaigns.

Our bot doesn't check captchas or inner pages. It just checks that the ad is available right away on the URL you specified for your ad unit.

[Btcrockk]

The health of your ad unit 23562 is dropping because there is no ad unit code on your site.

There is ad on my site, but in inner pages - and now i know the problem  Okay, found it.

[BitCoinDream]

is there a problem with the DNS for all a-ads sub domains like ad.a-ads.com? At least with the DNS server from "Deutsche Telekom" I get the answer Host ad.a-ads.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) (since two days)
If I ask several other open DNS server like google or dyndns I always get a different IP. May this is ok because of the Round-robin DNS or similar technics. Everything else is working just the sub domains of a-ads not. Is there an issue with Deutsche Telekom? Because the DNS server from Arcor (another german internet provider) is answering.

Thanks for your message. Yes, we use round-robin technique, and it seems to be working just fine. But recently we received a letter from Microsoft (!?) that some users might be affected by DNS issue due to the blocked TCP port on our DNS servers. We'll need to find a solution for that.

Why did u receive letter from Microsoft ? Are u using IIS server ?

[arsenische]

Why did u receive letter from Microsoft ? Are u using IIS server ?

No, we don't. But some Microsoft users are somehow affected. Perhaps their internet provider uses Microsoft software.

[BitCoinDream]

Why did u receive letter from Microsoft ? Are u using IIS server ?

No, we don't. But some Microsoft users are somehow affected. Perhaps their internet provider uses Microsoft software.

Sorry, I dint get your point. If the user is affected, then why will u receive the letter as a service provider ? They are supposed to receive it ...is not it ?

[arsenische]

Sorry, I dint get your point. If the user is affected, then why will u receive the letter as a service provider ? They are supposed to receive it ...is not it ?

Well, I was surprised too. That's what they wrote:

These are the name servers where TCP over port 53 is blocked at your ACL/Firewall.
 
Name servers:
ns1vwx.name.com.
ns2hjl.name.com.
ns3bfm.name.com.
ns4dmx.name.com.
 
This is a High Priority for Microsoft as our customers get SERVERFAIL for DNS queries to ad.a-ads.com. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Having twenty five ad*.a-ads.com name servers when TCP is blocked at *.name.com is simply a bad configuration blocking legitimate traffic for this domain.
 
Can we please have admins for ad*.a-ads.com name servers look at this issue? We received a response (attached) from the *.name.com service provider saying they wouldn’t be unblocking TCP over port 53 as this was done to prevent DDOS.

(I hope it is not ethically wrong to publish this without permission of the sender )

I tried to add DNS servers from other provider that have TCP port open, but messed it up (and our domain ad.a-ads.com was partially unavailable during 25th of May). So I reverted the settings back. Perhaps we'll need to set up our own name servers to solve the issue.

Not sure though if there is really an issue.

[BitCoinDream]

Ok... I had a query regarding a-ads. Which one is more profitable as a publisher using a-ads ?

i. Larger ad units

ii. More clicks

[Lionel]

Why in the past 2 days i have had almost zero earnings even if the number of clicks is the same as the days before?

I used to get 10 times more money everyday, with the same clicks (about 15/day)

[Btcrockk]

Why in the past 2 days i have had almost zero earnings even if the number of clicks is the same as the days before?

I used to get 10 times more money everyday, with the same clicks (about 15/day)

+1 - the same thing. Earnings droped significantly.

[arsenische]

Why in the past 2 days i have had almost zero earnings even if the number of clicks is the same as the days before?

I used to get 10 times more money everyday, with the same clicks (about 15/day)

+1 - the same thing. Earnings droped significantly.

Thanks for your questions.

Please note that we are not pay-per-click advertising network, we just distribute advertisers' budgets with respect globally unique traffic of our advertisers.

So your income may fluctuate based on behavior of advertisers, performance of your site and of your competitors.

Also if you have a decent site that belongs to category "Unknown", please let me know, I'll try to find a better category for it (sites in other categories earn much more).

[Btcrockk]

Why in the past 2 days i have had almost zero earnings even if the number of clicks is the same as the days before?

I used to get 10 times more money everyday, with the same clicks (about 15/day)

+1 - the same thing. Earnings droped significantly.

Thanks for your questions.

Please note that we are not pay-per-click advertising network, we just distribute advertisers' budgets with respect globally unique traffic of our advertisers.

So your income may fluctuate based on behavior of advertisers, performance of your site and of your competitors.

Also if you have a decent site that belongs to category "Unknown", please let me know, I'll try to find a better category for it (sites in other categories earn much more).

I dont think that there are too many competitors appeared in a flash - it seems like something changed in a core of a system

As for "Unknown" category it would be better if some ad was categorized for site.com - saying 728x90, adding next slot 468x60 for site.com also will inherit category of site.

Pls take a look to https://a-ads.com/ad_units/32328 - it has Unknown category, but site(ad type) was categorized before(https://a-ads.com/ad_units/23562).

[arsenische]

I dont think that there are too many competitors appeared in a flash - it seems like something changed in a core of a system

Nothing changed except the drop of advertiser's budget (see https://a-ads.com/stats), it dropped from 1.4 btc to 0.3 btc, probably that explains the drop in income.

Pls take a look to https://a-ads.com/ad_units/32328 - it has Unknown category, but site(ad type) was categorized before(https://a-ads.com/ad_units/23562).

Fixed this. We are still working on a better solution for site classification, should be ready in few days. New ad units with same URL will be classified automatically.

[Btcrockk]

Thanks! 

[Dâniel Fraga]

Fixed this. We are still working on a better solution for site classification, should be ready in few days. New ad units with same URL will be classified automatically.

Good It would be nice if the referrals and impressions and clicks could be shared across ad units with the same bitcoin address and site address, what do you think about it?

I suggest this, because when we create another ad unit for the same site, it start from zero and we lose the referrals.