Cointelegraph`s referral program

[~Bitcoin~]

guys, something wrong with blockchain.info API that we use for referral program`s payments so some transactions were not processed yesterday. Will be fixed very soon and be sure everyone will get their payment

fixed.. and paid =) waiting for next monday

Good to see payment will give this a try. And i think they are the first news site which actually pays for their writer to refer visitors to their articles. Will share my story later.

[BitBustah]

how do you add these articles to your website?

I have the referral links but cant seem to figure out how to insert the article and image of the article

Use PHP and the RSS feed.

[bassdude]

how do you add these articles to your website?

I have the referral links but cant seem to figure out how to insert the article and image of the article

Use PHP and the RSS feed.

will that still work for referral income I make from users clicking on the articles?

[A.Raserei]

WoW. 12 Payouts were created last week
https://gyazo.com/0b41ad0942893fe557533d4696362618
And all are paid yesterday =) Cool (one more will be paid today, sorry sometimes i just haven`t money lol)

But i have a news:
First of all i found a lot of fraud traffic so i will not ban anyone (users) i will ban traffic sources (sites), i will write here what sites i will ban
Then i need to reduce rewards (to 2000 satoshi in first 2 hours after article was published, and 1000 later) today evening. When i will protect the programm from fraud traffic i`ll increase it again.
About fraud traffic - guys, my mission is attract more readers to the site and i want to pay for it, idon`t interested in bots in our site or people who just clicked your link and then leaved the site immidietly. So better to DON`T USE traffic exchanges.

[defcon23]

i start to doubt... i'm supposed to be paid now for sharing & sharing again..., as i have passed the threshold of 1$ for a long time now .... and i dont see any incoming payment ... explainations please ??

all what i got is this stupid message : "You do not have funds for payout (min amount is $1)"

that's start to smell a bit scamy..    
anyway, i keep all the records of each supposed micro payments that i had should received..
once  again : clarifications &  payment please..

[A.Raserei]

i start to doubt... i'm supposed to be paid now for sharing & sharing again..., as i have passed the threshold of 1$ for a long time now .... and i dont see any incoming payment ... explainations please ??

all what i got is this stupid message : "You do not have funds for payout (min amount is $1)"

that's start to smell a bit scamy..    
anyway, i keep all the records of each supposed micro payments that i had should received..
once  again : clarifications &  payment please..

everything is ok with other users, mb you are using not referral links but simple?? lol.. show me where and how you`ve shared it.
and can you send to me a screenshot of your table in this page - http://cointelegraph.com/account i`ll check what is wrong

[defcon23]

i start to doubt... i'm supposed to be paid now for sharing & sharing again..., as i have passed the threshold of 1$ for a long time now .... and i dont see any incoming payment ... explainations please ??

all what i gohttps://twitter.com/defcon_23t is this stupid message : "You do not have funds for payout (min amount is $1)"

that's start to smell a bit scamy..    
anyway, i keep all the records of each supposed micro payments that i had should received..
once  again : clarifications &  payment please..

everything is ok with other users, mb you are using not referral links but simple?? lol.. show me where and how you`ve shared it.

https://twitter.com/defcon_23

the real "LOL" part is this one ( as you have recognized the problem less than one hour ago , in this mail... )  and now this reaction on bitcointalk ?? funny..

[A.Raserei]

i start to doubt... i'm supposed to be paid now for sharing & sharing again..., as i have passed the threshold of 1$ for a long time now .... and i dont see any incoming payment ... explainations please ??

all what i gohttps://twitter.com/defcon_23t is this stupid message : "You do not have funds for payout (min amount is $1)"

that's start to smell a bit scamy..    
anyway, i keep all the records of each supposed micro payments that i had should received..
once  again : clarifications &  payment please..

everything is ok with other users, mb you are using not referral links but simple?? lol.. show me where and how you`ve shared it.

https://twitter.com/defcon_23

the real "LOL" part is this one ( as you have recognized the problem less than one hour ago , in this mail... )  and now this reaction on bitcointalk ?? funny..

https://i.imgur.com/LDE1gKe.png

just opened bitcointalk and my mailbox in the same time.. and if you have send it hour ago it doesn mean that someone opened your mail and read it

[defcon23]

i start to doubt... i'm supposed to be paid now for sharing & sharing again..., as i have passed the threshold of 1$ for a long time now .... and i dont see any incoming payment ... explainations please ??

all what i gohttps://twitter.com/defcon_23t is this stupid message : "You do not have funds for payout (min amount is $1)"

that's start to smell a bit scamy..    
anyway, i keep all the records of each supposed micro payments that i had should received..
once  again : clarifications &  payment please..

everything is ok with other users, mb you are using not referral links but simple?? lol.. show me where and how you`ve shared it.

https://twitter.com/defcon_23

the real "LOL" part is this one ( as you have recognized the problem less than one hour ago , in this mail... )  and now this reaction on bitcointalk ?? funny..

just opened bitcointalk and my mailbox in the same time

yeah ... sure.. but still not explain me why should i still wait for a "little" payment i 'm supposed to get in my pocket now...  and why you have this kind of reaction here, when i explain you again, the same problem i had stated you few days ago..

[A.Raserei]

seems like no one clicked on it. As rules tells - You'll get 2000 satoshi for each new reader who opens the article through your referral link in the first 2 hours after the article is published, and 1000 satoshi after this point.

[defcon23]

seems like no one clicked on it. As rules tells - You'll get 2000 satoshi for each new reader who opens the article through your referral link in the first 2 hours after the article is published, and 1000 satoshi after this point.

WRONG !

[A.Raserei]

and could you please make a screenshot of whole table in you account?
for example - https://gyazo.com/35b89fb62ee98facad462c1698de9a50

[defcon23]

and could you please make a screenshot of whole table in you account?
for example - https://gyazo.com/35b89fb62ee98facad462c1698de9a50

  just go to my account dude, and verify by yourself: account: defcon23@zoho.com

[A.Raserei]

and could you please make a screenshot of whole table in you account?
for example - https://gyazo.com/35b89fb62ee98facad462c1698de9a50

  just go to my account dude, and verify by yourself: account: defcon23@zoho.com

i can`t watch any accounts only my own.. this is very shitty system that i need to work with T_T

[defcon23]

wana screenshots?

here's the 1 first pages on 10 i have:














etc etc etc....

[A.Raserei]

duno.. seems like you are not have 1 dollar (92 entries i see that some entries has more than one rewards, for example people clicked 120 times on your referral link, for example average reward for one click is 1500 satoshi so you have 1500x120=180000 satoshi. It`s 0.8USD - https://gyazo.com/8f6b35a3f38d7d9e30e1a5a89f4eff53) but it is example i duno how many people have clicked on your ref.links exactly. But seems you have satoshi tooo close to 1 dollar but lil bit less.. i think that if you will wait and share more ref.links you will able to withdrawal it very VERY soon. Am i right?

[defcon23]

duno.. seems like you are not have 1 dollar (92 entries i see that some entries has more than one rewards, for example people clicked 120 times on your referral link, for example average reward for one click is 1500 satoshi so you have 2000x150=300000 satoshi. It`s 0.8USD - https://gyazo.com/8f6b35a3f38d7d9e30e1a5a89f4eff53) but it is example i duno how many people have clicked on your ref.links exactly. But seems you have satoshi tooo close to 1 dollar but lil bit less.. i think that if you will wait and share more ref.links you will able to withdrawal it very VERY soon. Am i right?

man: here's the all 10 pages:




make the exacts counts....
anyway you have right in one point , that's dont make a big amount..  and i have better things to do than discuss this anymore..

regards.

[A.Raserei]

ok i`ve calculated - https://gyazo.com/79823d779be984a76bafc0250b50d7d5 (i didn`t calculated screenshots #5-10 there were tooooooo small reward before i`ve started new ref programm)
so you have 118000 Satoshi (lil bit more) it is 0,53$

[A.Raserei]

be sure i will make more friendly interface for this programm but i need more time (and devs and money lol)

[A.Raserei]

Guys, better to don`t use ref programm with reddit.

Today i`ve got an email from reddit

Hi,


I am Neil Fincham and I am a mod of /r/Bitcoin on reddit.


Recently a lot of CoinTelegraph articles have been coming in with referal links attached like this;-


http://cointelegraph.com/news/price-index-the-future-of-bitcoin-lies-in-the-hands-of-developers?ref=4805

http://cointelegraph.com/news/coin-cloud-moves-to-spread-bitcoin-atms-across-the-united-states?ref=4805


As you may or may not be aware, /r/Bitcoin prohibits referral links of any sort and Reddit in general prohibits paying people to link to your site.


Needless to say us mods are deleting them as we find them but it unfortunately means that a lot of your articles don't end up being on /r/Bitcoin and that is a shame because you guys generate a lot of good content.


Is there any way you can update your system to make it absolutely clear that any referal links are not allowed in reddit and they cannot be used?  No one to my knowledge has reported it to reddit yet and we certainly won't but it is getting a bit annoying having to delete all your articles when they are submitted to reddit.


Thanks for your time, I hope we can get this resolved quickly.