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Topic: [ANN] Mellow Ads - simple, bitcoin advertising. Network/CPM/CPC. Free faucet! - page 22. (Read 82582 times)

hero member
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Anyone get payout for today yet?
sr. member
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The day closed with the frozen proceeds.
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Here are some my 'spam publishers' that I suspect strongly of having fake views:

Here are a few from my findings:

http://styleswimsuit.com/

^ Fake site with faked views, no way is that site getting 24k views daily!

coinbooster.io

^ Non paying Ponzi. You're stuffing a thieves pocket by keeping it in the pool

http://vipbitcoin.ru/

^

100 satoshi every 500 minutes, and 11k views? Impossible, my sites all over more than this and less rewards and are well established, this is faked

http://youkkk.com/

^

Wordpress Template and some Hitleap minutes?

I think we need some more moderation!

Please rest assured we are constantly moderating publisher sites to ensure they are providing genuine views and clicks to our advertisers. We manually check out each new site that is submitted (following our Website Approval Guidelines). Then we periodically re-check all sites, especially those with high views/clicks, to ensure that they continue to meet our standards.
This is by far the most tedious and time consuming manual process that we currently have to undertake. We are rejecting roughly 85% of new websites that are submitted, and additionally on average maybe 1 or 2 per day are rejected/blocked when we find they are subsequently trying to cheat the system. So the only sites that remain on our network are those that we are reasonably confident are genuine.

We've looked at the sites you have listed...

styleswimsuit.com
This has been flagged up by our automatic system a couple of times, as you are right that it does look a bit suspicious. However we can't find any issues with the views and clicks that are coming through.
Firstly it is a paying Faucetbox faucet...

Just for comparisons sake, we checked the IP addresses that the views are coming from and around 26% of these match IP addresses that are used against your (thefaucetrunner) ad spaces too. Against moonBit.co.in (which is the biggest faucet on our network) your site matches around 24% IP addresses. This suggests that the traffic is likely to be genuine faucet users - but we have more sophisticated checks that are also not throwing up any red flags here either.
(Note: they actually have 10 ad spaces in our network - but as per our rules, they only receive daily network pool payouts for the the top 5 each day)

coinbooster.io
We are aware that this site is almost certainly a non-paying scam site - we've failed to receive any withdrawals from them so far too!
Because of this suspicion we placed a temporary block on the financials for this publisher on 20th October - which means that they are not added into the network pool calculations, they don't receive any daily payments and they can't withdraw.
We have emailed them a couple of times with no reply so far. If we don't receive a prompt and satisfactory reply to our latest email then they will be removed from the network completely.
In the meantime coinbooster.io is showing Mellow Ads adverts for free! Wink

vipbitcoin.ru
Again, this is a paying Faucetbox faucet (see same screenshot above) - and we aren't getting any red flags from our automatic checks. Manually looking at the view/click logs all looks fine too. We can ony really reject/block sites if we have clear evidence of cheating not just because the view/click counts don't seem to match up with faucet payout amounts or frequency.

youkkk.com
Although nothing has been flagged up by our automatic systems we have now rejected this website (and removed it from the network) based on a manual review. On checking the logs we can now see that there is clear view/click fraud going on. We have updated the automatic system now to ensure this sort of cheating doesnt get through anymore.

Very impressed, baztardo - this truly is the sort of service that publishers within the MellowAds pool would expect - and more. Very impressed with the service quality and the rates, I wish you guys the best. I'll keep an eye on the pool for more sites!

Interesting to see your investigative skills!
hero member
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Hello, the site is not counting impressions or clicks


Yea been frozen for awhile, I hope its sorted out
sr. member
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Hello, the site is not counting impressions or clicks
sr. member
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Hello, the publishers are paid with advertising?
Can someone tell me?


No
the publishers are paid with satoshi
The faucet claimers are paid with "special satoshi" you can only use for advertising.
Or is that my web collection in satoshi?
But don't see where put my address to collect?
Thanks a lot.
legendary
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Free WSPU2 Token or real dollars
Hello, the publishers are paid with advertising?
Can someone tell me?


No
the publishers are paid with satoshi
The faucet claimers are paid with "special satoshi" you can only use for advertising.
sr. member
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Hello, the publishers are paid with advertising?
Can someone tell me?
sr. member
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Hello, how much they take to approve a site?
hero member
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Thanks for the updates baztardo, keep up the good work
sr. member
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Here are some my 'spam publishers' that I suspect strongly of having fake views:

Here are a few from my findings:

http://styleswimsuit.com/

^ Fake site with faked views, no way is that site getting 24k views daily!

coinbooster.io

^ Non paying Ponzi. You're stuffing a thieves pocket by keeping it in the pool

http://vipbitcoin.ru/

^

100 satoshi every 500 minutes, and 11k views? Impossible, my sites all over more than this and less rewards and are well established, this is faked

http://youkkk.com/

^

Wordpress Template and some Hitleap minutes?

I think we need some more moderation!

Please rest assured we are constantly moderating publisher sites to ensure they are providing genuine views and clicks to our advertisers. We manually check out each new site that is submitted (following our Website Approval Guidelines). Then we periodically re-check all sites, especially those with high views/clicks, to ensure that they continue to meet our standards.
This is by far the most tedious and time consuming manual process that we currently have to undertake. We are rejecting roughly 85% of new websites that are submitted, and additionally on average maybe 1 or 2 per day are rejected/blocked when we find they are subsequently trying to cheat the system. So the only sites that remain on our network are those that we are reasonably confident are genuine.

We've looked at the sites you have listed...

styleswimsuit.com
This has been flagged up by our automatic system a couple of times, as you are right that it does look a bit suspicious. However we can't find any issues with the views and clicks that are coming through.
Firstly it is a paying Faucetbox faucet...

Just for comparisons sake, we checked the IP addresses that the views are coming from and around 26% of these match IP addresses that are used against your (thefaucetrunner) ad spaces too. Against moonBit.co.in (which is the biggest faucet on our network) your site matches around 24% IP addresses. This suggests that the traffic is likely to be genuine faucet users - but we have more sophisticated checks that are also not throwing up any red flags here either.
(Note: they actually have 10 ad spaces in our network - but as per our rules, they only receive daily network pool payouts for the the top 5 each day)

coinbooster.io
We are aware that this site is almost certainly a non-paying scam site - we've failed to receive any withdrawals from them so far too!
Because of this suspicion we placed a temporary block on the financials for this publisher on 20th October - which means that they are not added into the network pool calculations, they don't receive any daily payments and they can't withdraw.
We have emailed them a couple of times with no reply so far. If we don't receive a prompt and satisfactory reply to our latest email then they will be removed from the network completely.
In the meantime coinbooster.io is showing Mellow Ads adverts for free! Wink

vipbitcoin.ru
Again, this is a paying Faucetbox faucet (see same screenshot above) - and we aren't getting any red flags from our automatic checks. Manually looking at the view/click logs all looks fine too. We can ony really reject/block sites if we have clear evidence of cheating not just because the view/click counts don't seem to match up with faucet payout amounts or frequency.

youkkk.com
Although nothing has been flagged up by our automatic systems we have now rejected this website (and removed it from the network) based on a manual review. On checking the logs we can now see that there is clear view/click fraud going on. We have updated the automatic system now to ensure this sort of cheating doesnt get through anymore.
hero member
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I agree so the more legit publishers who receive organic traffic can make more
sr. member
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Here are some my 'spam publishers' that I suspect strongly of having fake views:

Here are a few from my findings:

http://styleswimsuit.com/

^ Fake site with faked views, no way is that site getting 24k views daily!

coinbooster.io

^ Non paying Ponzi. You're stuffing a thieves pocket by keeping it in the pool

http://vipbitcoin.ru/

^

100 satoshi every 500 minutes, and 11k views? Impossible, my sites all over more than this and less rewards and are well established, this is faked

http://youkkk.com/

^

Wordpress Template and some Hitleap minutes?

I think we need some more moderation!
sr. member
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System is back online again now Smiley

I want to ask you how can I make a withdraw from your faucet?
I have the rotator and many referals, so I want to withdraw collected satoshi but I can’t

Wait for your answer


You don't withdraw, your satoshi can be used to advertise within the network - it was actually made clear on the website, perhaps you didn't understand. You can use your satoshi for an advertising campaign, but you'll probably need quite a lot as a click can cost from between 0.0001 to 0.0003 depending on the website you choose to advertise on.

The satoshi stays within the network!
sr. member
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Baztardo, it'd be nice to see the name of the ad-space rather than the Hashcode appear in transactions. Or perhaps the ability to arrange payouts according to the size of the ads, so we can see how particular blocks are performing. I have four sites and 20 spots and it's hard to see which specific sites/spots are performing.

Adding these two filters (arrange by site/arrange by ad size) would greatly help things. Many faucet admins struggle to keep tabs on incomings and outgoings. The ability to filter more would be really good, I think - filtering by day (total earnings in 1 day) or week or month even.

Still one of the best performing ad networks and glad to see that the pool has remained steady.
member
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System is back online again now Smiley

I want to ask you how can I make a withdraw from your faucet?
I have the rotator and many referals, so I want to withdraw collected satoshi but I can’t

Wait for your answer
sr. member
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Mellow Ads is currently offline while we upgrade our servers - should be back on within an hour Smiley

System is back online again now Smiley
sr. member
Activity: 305
Merit: 250
Mellow Ads is currently offline while we upgrade our servers - should be back on within an hour Smiley
newbie
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registered today, added the website: http://thepowermoneysystem.info waiting for their respective review and approval
legendary
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btw, It means you cannot use the "Withdraw All" option if you have faucet credit.


This is fixed now. The "Withdraw All" function will now work against the withdrawable balance - i.e. it won't attempt to withdraw the faucet credit (which is what was causing this problem)
Smiley

I literally came in to ask for this. Was a headache until I realized I had to deduct 5000 satoshi! I like the faucet but yeah this separation was definitely needed, glad to see things have changed.

Good to see the network pool edging up a little.

Not sure if I'm the only one, but there's a few 'spammy' looking sites in the pool now - at least that's what it seems to look like to me.

Advertisement-wise or like publishers? If they're advertisers, I'd say MA should only get involved if they use the faucet. Past this, if they're paying, I see no problems.

Publishers, I'm not too bothered about advertisers, it's up the user if they want to click a spammy ad.

I'd report these directly, including URL, definitely.

I use google adsense on my site.

And I set the CPM and CPC in this way.

CPM: 0.001
CPC: 0.0003

Is it okay well or should I change it?

I don't get this question. What does Mellow Ads have to do with AdSense?

Yes, sorry wrong question.  Cheesy

I just wanted to know if Mellow Ads runs without problems together with Adsense.

Not an issue, Smiley. There are very few networks AdSense doesn't mesh with.
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