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Topic: [ANN] a-ads.com: Bitcoin advertising network. Advertise now! - page 61. (Read 174428 times)

legendary
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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

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?
sr. member
Activity: 420
Merit: 250
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

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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
legendary
Activity: 1199
Merit: 1012
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 "_" 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!
member
Activity: 84
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www.BITOOMBA.com
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
sr. member
Activity: 352
Merit: 250
Firstbits: 1m8xa
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
legendary
Activity: 1386
Merit: 1045
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.
legendary
Activity: 1386
Merit: 1045
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.
legendary
Activity: 1199
Merit: 1012
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.
legendary
Activity: 1386
Merit: 1045
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.

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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.
sr. member
Activity: 322
Merit: 250
Sound Engineer for Hire
Anonymous Ads or A-ads has been a very
good service for me Smiley

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?
legendary
Activity: 1199
Merit: 1012
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.

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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.
legendary
Activity: 1386
Merit: 1045
I got rid of my Anonymous Ad unit. The rates seem insanely low for publishers. I was averaging 4satoshi/impression. That's a ten thousand times less than the market rate!

Here are my real stats. Just publishing this for everyone's reference.

legendary
Activity: 1386
Merit: 1045
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.

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.
hero member
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We have some technical issues with our main site. Shouldn't affect ad rotation though. Sorry for inconvenience.

good to see that ad delivery is still working!
legendary
Activity: 1199
Merit: 1012
We have some technical issues with our main site. Shouldn't affect ad rotation though. Sorry for inconvenience.
hero member
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Looks like server is down.
legendary
Activity: 1199
Merit: 1012
Money for referrals should come from your profit, not advertisers expenses. Why should it cost me money, to make you more money? I think that's the worst setup I've ever seen, why would you even join an affiliate link if its costing you more money to advertise? You need to be taking a cut of publisher profits, not advertiser profits.

Well, it does come from our profit, and our profit comes from advertisers' expenses. Or you can say that our profit comes from publishers' income, and publisher's income comes from advertisers' expenses. Isn't it the same?

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Meaning if I spend $1, to get 1000 views, you don't take 30 cents, and leave me with 700 views. You need to give 1000 views, and pay the publisher 70 cents an keep the other 30 cents.

We don't sell impressions, we just redirect advertisers' money to publishers for a fee. And advertisers receive proportional share of impressions from publishers they pay to.

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Taking 20% to deposit, then 20% to spend is robbery, and losing you money. Having $64 left to advertise with out of every $100 spent, I cant see how anyone signed up.. It already lost you $1000 sales from a single person (me..) and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

I regret that our fees repel advertisers. I do appreciate your sincere feedback though, there is something to think about. You identified 2 major problems:

1) fees for default use case are high

2) people don't understand how it works.

Possible solutions: decrease the fees, redesign the system and/or improve documentation.

But please understand why those problems came up. They are related to "anonymous" nature of our service. We don't want to spy on our visitors, to identify/ban our publishers and to filter out their traffic.

We want to encourage advertisers to use non-default use case thus reducing their fees and improving quality of traffic.

If we just redistribute money without any feedback from advertisers, we'll end up with 100% botnet generated traffic. So we need advertisers to reward publishers for conversions. And that is why we charge ridiculous fees on the ones that don't.

But please note, that unless many advertisers reward for sales, all advertisers are in equal position. So it is not advertisers who suffer from high fees, it is the publishers who earn less.

Advertiser will suffer from high fees only if s/he don't use goal tracking (i. e. pays additional 20% fee) and competes with advertisers who do use it (i. e. save on fees and receive higher quality traffic). But currently rewards for goals are less than 10%, so even default use case shouldn't be that bad.
legendary
Activity: 1311
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You need to be taking a cut of publishers profits, not advertisers.

I feel like there is some misunderstanding here. What is publishers' profits, where do they come from? Publishers don't deposit anything, it is advertisers' money anyway.

Dropping $10,000 and a-ads taking $4000 id rather just use adwords..

We know our fee is high, but it is not 40%. As I said, it is 10-36% depending on the particular use case.

We take a deposit fee of 20%, half of it is a reward for publisher that attracted advertiser.

Then we distribute remaining 80% to ad units that satisfy advertiser's criteria (with respect to Daily Budget set by advertiser) and take 20% fee from it. In return advertiser receives proportional share of impressions of those ad units.

But advertiser can set Daily Budget to 0 and spend campaign's balance via Goal Tracking API without that 20% fee.

So the principle is simple: money gets distributed from advertisers to publishers (either we distribute it according to some simple internal algorithm for a 20% fee, or advertisers distribute them via Goal Tracking API without a fee). In return advertisers get proportional share of impressions from ad units they pay to. No absolute numbers of clicks/impressions are guaranteed though, CPC and CPI are just rough estimates.

Also if advertiser is at the same time a publisher, then instead of depositing money s/he can redirect his earnings to campaign with only a 10% fee.

Thus minimum fees we take from advertiser is 10%, maximum is 36% and our fee model encourages advertisers to reward ad units that work best for them thus minimizing incentive for fake traffic. But we might consider to change it.

Thanks for your feedback!

Money for referrals should come from your profit, not advertisers expenses. Why should it cost me money, to make you more money? I think that's the worst setup I've ever seen, why would you even join an affiliate link if its costing you more money to advertise?

You need to be taking a cut of publisher profits, not advertiser profits. Meaning if I spend $1, to get 1000 views, you don't take 30 cents, and leave me with 700 views. You need to give 1000 views, and pay the publisher 70 cents an keep the other 30 cents.

Taking 20% to deposit, then 20% to spend is robbery, and losing you money. Having $64 left to advertise with out of every $100 spent, I cant see how anyone signed up.. It already lost you $1000 sales from a single person (me..) and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
legendary
Activity: 1199
Merit: 1012
I see now... But this begs the question: Would I still get paid the current PPV average for Imps that aren't targeted enough? (Not from bitcoin/gamblers in that case?) Or are those Imps totally wasted?

We don't pay per impression, we just redistribute advertisers' money, so your income depends on how that money are distributed. So either advertisers decide to reward you for some reason (e.g. your visitors bought from them), or you fit their targeting parameters and generate unique traffic. According to stats page, only ~4% of earnings come from goals (i. e. rewards) currently. So looks like currently quality of traffic is not as important as its category/language/volume. I hope it changes though.

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Alright, I think I see now. It sounds like what I should do is group my sites into relevant niche categories now, so all of the health & fitness sites share one ad. Then, when I go to make that ad, I enter a single domain at the top to represent the whole niche.
If, for instance, I make 10 groupings, and on each site there are 3 ad spots, then I'll be making 30 ads. Does this sound about right?

Yes, sounds right, each grouping could belong to 3 categories.

hero member
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My other Avatar is also Scrooge McDuck
The most paying categories currently are Bitcoin/Gamblers and Bitcoin/Miners. Many advertisers compete for them. But if miners & gamblers don't visit your sites, then efficiency of your ad units will be low and you won't earn rewards from advertisers.
I see now... But this begs the question: Would I still get paid the current PPV average for Imps that aren't targeted enough/singled out by advertisers yet? (Not from bitcoin/gamblers in that case?) Or are those Imps totally wasted?


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I didn't see that each ad had to be restricted to a single domain.
They are not actually, we use that URL just to show advertisers that ad unit is really embedded somewhere. You have few options:
1) register ad unit of type "Other" (and explain in description that it will be use in various sites), then no need to specify URL
2) register ad unit for 1 URL, but embed them in all domains (also you can create a special page that lists all your domains and claims that this ad unit will be shown there).
Alright, I think I see now. It sounds like what I should do is group my sites into relevant niche categories now, so all of the health & fitness sites share one ad. Then, when I go to make that ad, I enter a single domain at the top to represent the whole niche.

If, for instance, I make 10 niche groupings, and on each site there are 3 ad spots, then I'll be making 30 ads. Does this sound about right?
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