i was accepted mellow ads to my site,
and I do like mellowads, it's a great service,.
Topic: [ANN] Mellow Ads - simple, bitcoin advertising. Network/CPM/CPC. Free faucet! - page 30. (Read 82584 times)
September 18, 2015, 03:25:51 PM
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September 17, 2015, 04:34:38 AM
can i put mellow ads on gambling site? as a matter of fact not drectly gambilng site, but promote this services?
thanks
thanks
Yes, that's not a problem at all
September 17, 2015, 04:34:10 AM
Baztardo, can you make auto verify for ads that has been verified before? If I want to publish the same ads after it expiry I think it is okay to make auto verify for that so that people dont need to wait anymore. It is the same ads so I dont see reason to wait 1 day for you to verify again and it will save you some work to do
We only need to re-verify if you have made any changes to the advert. E.g. changed the text, or added more banners
If you haven't made any changes, then you should be able to use the advert in new campaigns at any time (even while other campaigns are running with it)
September 17, 2015, 02:49:23 AM
Baztardo, can you make auto verify for ads that has been verified before? If I want to publish the same ads after it expiry I think it is okay to make auto verify for that so that people dont need to wait anymore. It is the same ads so I dont see reason to wait 1 day for you to verify again and it will save you some work to do
September 15, 2015, 08:33:34 PM
If, when we have implemented CPM/CPC network campaigns, you are always welcome to try it out and see how it compares to bitmedia or coinurl
I really do look forward to that because I do like mellowads, it's a great service
September 15, 2015, 05:28:15 PM
can i put mellow ads on gambling site? as a matter of fact not drectly gambilng site, but promote this services?
thanks
thanks
September 15, 2015, 10:13:28 AM
I was not accepted by mellow ads showing my alexa rank is so low. I am using bitmedia which is paying quite enough for per click. But when i came to know that mellowads is not paying on cpc and cpm basis i was suprised as in their site they say advertise for 0.001btc per 1000 impression. Hope you guys will add cpc and cpm in future till than i will try to make my site alexa ranking little better to be accepted.
We already have CPM and CPC available - you can advertise directly on most of our individual ad spaces and pay per (unique) click or per unique mille (1000 views), for as many views/clicks as you require.
We just don't currently have network wide CPC/CPM campaigns - but this will be coming in the future.
September 15, 2015, 10:08:54 AM
I was not accepted by mellow ads showing my alexa rank is so low. I am using bitmedia which is paying quite enough for per click. But when i came to know that mellowads is not paying on cpc and cpm basis i was suprised as in their site they say advertise for 0.001btc per 1000 impression. Hope you guys will add cpc and cpm in future till than i will try to make my site alexa ranking little better to be accepted.
September 15, 2015, 09:59:35 AM
Did you actually read my post? I said that we already have a system that excludes many "fake" views/clicks including those from TOR/own publishers - so these are NOT affecting the stats. This is ALREADY happening and we are constantly improving it.
And I don't understand what the 10% network pool fee has to do with anything. This is roughly averaging $7 per day and is our only income towards the cost of running the service - which I can assure you costs a lot more than $7 per day.
And I don't understand what the 10% network pool fee has to do with anything. This is roughly averaging $7 per day and is our only income towards the cost of running the service - which I can assure you costs a lot more than $7 per day.
Well then use that system and implement CPC/CPM network campaigns and stop making up excuses
Nobody is "making up excuses" - I've been completely transparent and honest at all times.
We haven't implemented CPC/CPM network campaigns yet because it is not top priority to us. I know it is to you, but you aren't our only user. As I've said repeatedly, its on our schedule and will be done at the appropriate time.
Not important to me at all, I can use bitmedia.io or coinurl to advertise
That's great. As I've said before we are very comfortable with people using other ad networks that fit their requirements better. We aren't trying to beat every other network out there - just provide an alternative that works in a way that we believe is better.
If, when we have implemented CPM/CPC network campaigns, you are always welcome to try it out and see how it compares to bitmedia or coinurl
September 15, 2015, 09:51:29 AM
Did you actually read my post? I said that we already have a system that excludes many "fake" views/clicks including those from TOR/own publishers - so these are NOT affecting the stats. This is ALREADY happening and we are constantly improving it.
And I don't understand what the 10% network pool fee has to do with anything. This is roughly averaging $7 per day and is our only income towards the cost of running the service - which I can assure you costs a lot more than $7 per day.
And I don't understand what the 10% network pool fee has to do with anything. This is roughly averaging $7 per day and is our only income towards the cost of running the service - which I can assure you costs a lot more than $7 per day.
Well then use that system and implement CPC/CPM network campaigns and stop making up excuses
Nobody is "making up excuses" - I've been completely transparent and honest at all times.
We haven't implemented CPC/CPM network campaigns yet because it is not top priority to us. I know it is to you, but you aren't our only user. As I've said repeatedly, its on our schedule and will be done at the appropriate time.
Not important to me at all, I can use bitmedia.io or coinurl to advertise
September 15, 2015, 09:49:18 AM
Did you actually read my post? I said that we already have a system that excludes many "fake" views/clicks including those from TOR/own publishers - so these are NOT affecting the stats. This is ALREADY happening and we are constantly improving it.
And I don't understand what the 10% network pool fee has to do with anything. This is roughly averaging $7 per day and is our only income towards the cost of running the service - which I can assure you costs a lot more than $7 per day.
And I don't understand what the 10% network pool fee has to do with anything. This is roughly averaging $7 per day and is our only income towards the cost of running the service - which I can assure you costs a lot more than $7 per day.
Well then use that system and implement CPC/CPM network campaigns and stop making up excuses
Nobody is "making up excuses" - I've been completely transparent and honest at all times.
We haven't implemented CPC/CPM network campaigns yet because it is not top priority to us. I know it is to you, but you aren't our only user. As I've said repeatedly, its on our schedule and will be done at the appropriate time.
September 15, 2015, 09:40:59 AM
Did you actually read my post? I said that we already have a system that excludes many "fake" views/clicks including those from TOR/own publishers - so these are NOT affecting the stats. This is ALREADY happening and we are constantly improving it.
And I don't understand what the 10% network pool fee has to do with anything. This is roughly averaging $7 per day and is our only income towards the cost of running the service - which I can assure you costs a lot more than $7 per day.
And I don't understand what the 10% network pool fee has to do with anything. This is roughly averaging $7 per day and is our only income towards the cost of running the service - which I can assure you costs a lot more than $7 per day.
Well then use that system and implement CPC/CPM network campaigns and stop making up excuses
September 15, 2015, 09:37:52 AM
Just wanted to reply to a few of the concerns posted above and try to clear them up...
1) Legit/Real vs Fake views/clicks
We already automatically exclude a large number of views and clicks that we deem are fake or highly suspicious.
These include (but are not limited to)...
a) Views/clicks from people using the TOR network
b) Views/clicks from sites such as HitLeap - we have a long blacklist of such sites that is kept constantly up to date
c) Views/clicks from any IP addresses associated with the publisher
So we can assure advertisers that we are actively doing are utmost to ensure that the vast majority of views/clicks are genuine - but of course we will never be able to guarantee 100%.
We already frequently ban publishers who are deliberately breaking these rules - and we will continue to do so, after full investigation of each case.
2) CPC campaigns
We already have direct CPC campaigns. Network CPC (and CPM) campaigns are on our schedule to do, but are not currently top priority as we are not being told there is much demand for this from most advertisers - other than the few requests we have noted on this forum. These will come eventually but even so, will not really make any difference to (1) above - in fact it is probably more likely that publishers might try to fake clicks!
3) @iawgoM - I looked at our logs for the ad space that you mentioned. It seems that a large number of the views and clicks are showing to be from the 'Googlebot' web crawler. This may either be some problem with the Googlebot (repeatedly crawling this site) or could potentially be someone imitating it fraudulently. Either way, you are right that these should not be counting towards the view/click statistics. This will explain your high bounce rate. I have checked and this is the only ad space that has this problem, there are only a total of 7 clicks for all the other ad spaces put together from the 'Googlebot'
There have been no direct CPM or CPC campaigns run against this ad space, so there are no advertisers to refund.
Network campaigns are paid by the day, so are not really relevant here - all it means is that you have received a (relatively small) amount of extra traffic from the Googlebot (or an imitator!).
We have now put in place a system to exclude this type of traffic so hopefully you not see this particular problem going forward.
1) Legit/Real vs Fake views/clicks
We already automatically exclude a large number of views and clicks that we deem are fake or highly suspicious.
These include (but are not limited to)...
a) Views/clicks from people using the TOR network
b) Views/clicks from sites such as HitLeap - we have a long blacklist of such sites that is kept constantly up to date
c) Views/clicks from any IP addresses associated with the publisher
So we can assure advertisers that we are actively doing are utmost to ensure that the vast majority of views/clicks are genuine - but of course we will never be able to guarantee 100%.
We already frequently ban publishers who are deliberately breaking these rules - and we will continue to do so, after full investigation of each case.
2) CPC campaigns
We already have direct CPC campaigns. Network CPC (and CPM) campaigns are on our schedule to do, but are not currently top priority as we are not being told there is much demand for this from most advertisers - other than the few requests we have noted on this forum. These will come eventually but even so, will not really make any difference to (1) above - in fact it is probably more likely that publishers might try to fake clicks!
3) @iawgoM - I looked at our logs for the ad space that you mentioned. It seems that a large number of the views and clicks are showing to be from the 'Googlebot' web crawler. This may either be some problem with the Googlebot (repeatedly crawling this site) or could potentially be someone imitating it fraudulently. Either way, you are right that these should not be counting towards the view/click statistics. This will explain your high bounce rate. I have checked and this is the only ad space that has this problem, there are only a total of 7 clicks for all the other ad spaces put together from the 'Googlebot'
There have been no direct CPM or CPC campaigns run against this ad space, so there are no advertisers to refund.
Network campaigns are paid by the day, so are not really relevant here - all it means is that you have received a (relatively small) amount of extra traffic from the Googlebot (or an imitator!).
We have now put in place a system to exclude this type of traffic so hopefully you not see this particular problem going forward.
Faking clicks is a lot more harder/work to do then having fake views done by a bot, simply put in a system that detects fake clicks from proxy/tor/vpns/own publishers IP's and you won't have any issues, but my guess is you like collecting yourself the network fees at the end of the day so it's no hurry for you to change your system
Did you actually read my post? I said that we already have a system that excludes many "fake" views/clicks including those from TOR/own publishers - so these are NOT affecting the stats. This is ALREADY happening and we are constantly improving it.
And I don't understand what the 10% network pool fee has to do with anything. This is roughly averaging $7 per day and is our only income towards the cost of running the service - which I can assure you costs a lot more than $7 per day.
September 15, 2015, 09:19:54 AM
Just wanted to reply to a few of the concerns posted above and try to clear them up...
1) Legit/Real vs Fake views/clicks
We already automatically exclude a large number of views and clicks that we deem are fake or highly suspicious.
These include (but are not limited to)...
a) Views/clicks from people using the TOR network
b) Views/clicks from sites such as HitLeap - we have a long blacklist of such sites that is kept constantly up to date
c) Views/clicks from any IP addresses associated with the publisher
So we can assure advertisers that we are actively doing are utmost to ensure that the vast majority of views/clicks are genuine - but of course we will never be able to guarantee 100%.
We already frequently ban publishers who are deliberately breaking these rules - and we will continue to do so, after full investigation of each case.
2) CPC campaigns
We already have direct CPC campaigns. Network CPC (and CPM) campaigns are on our schedule to do, but are not currently top priority as we are not being told there is much demand for this from most advertisers - other than the few requests we have noted on this forum. These will come eventually but even so, will not really make any difference to (1) above - in fact it is probably more likely that publishers might try to fake clicks!
3) @iawgoM - I looked at our logs for the ad space that you mentioned. It seems that a large number of the views and clicks are showing to be from the 'Googlebot' web crawler. This may either be some problem with the Googlebot (repeatedly crawling this site) or could potentially be someone imitating it fraudulently. Either way, you are right that these should not be counting towards the view/click statistics. This will explain your high bounce rate. I have checked and this is the only ad space that has this problem, there are only a total of 7 clicks for all the other ad spaces put together from the 'Googlebot'
There have been no direct CPM or CPC campaigns run against this ad space, so there are no advertisers to refund.
Network campaigns are paid by the day, so are not really relevant here - all it means is that you have received a (relatively small) amount of extra traffic from the Googlebot (or an imitator!).
We have now put in place a system to exclude this type of traffic so hopefully you not see this particular problem going forward.
1) Legit/Real vs Fake views/clicks
We already automatically exclude a large number of views and clicks that we deem are fake or highly suspicious.
These include (but are not limited to)...
a) Views/clicks from people using the TOR network
b) Views/clicks from sites such as HitLeap - we have a long blacklist of such sites that is kept constantly up to date
c) Views/clicks from any IP addresses associated with the publisher
So we can assure advertisers that we are actively doing are utmost to ensure that the vast majority of views/clicks are genuine - but of course we will never be able to guarantee 100%.
We already frequently ban publishers who are deliberately breaking these rules - and we will continue to do so, after full investigation of each case.
2) CPC campaigns
We already have direct CPC campaigns. Network CPC (and CPM) campaigns are on our schedule to do, but are not currently top priority as we are not being told there is much demand for this from most advertisers - other than the few requests we have noted on this forum. These will come eventually but even so, will not really make any difference to (1) above - in fact it is probably more likely that publishers might try to fake clicks!
3) @iawgoM - I looked at our logs for the ad space that you mentioned. It seems that a large number of the views and clicks are showing to be from the 'Googlebot' web crawler. This may either be some problem with the Googlebot (repeatedly crawling this site) or could potentially be someone imitating it fraudulently. Either way, you are right that these should not be counting towards the view/click statistics. This will explain your high bounce rate. I have checked and this is the only ad space that has this problem, there are only a total of 7 clicks for all the other ad spaces put together from the 'Googlebot'
There have been no direct CPM or CPC campaigns run against this ad space, so there are no advertisers to refund.
Network campaigns are paid by the day, so are not really relevant here - all it means is that you have received a (relatively small) amount of extra traffic from the Googlebot (or an imitator!).
We have now put in place a system to exclude this type of traffic so hopefully you not see this particular problem going forward.
Faking clicks is a lot more harder/work to do then having fake views done by a bot, simply put in a system that detects fake clicks from proxy/tor/vpns/own publishers IP's and you won't have any issues, but my guess is you like collecting yourself the network fees at the end of the day so it's no hurry for you to change your system
September 15, 2015, 08:51:40 AM
Just wanted to reply to a few of the concerns posted above and try to clear them up...
1) Legit/Real vs Fake views/clicks
We already automatically exclude a large number of views and clicks that we deem are fake or highly suspicious.
These include (but are not limited to)...
a) Views/clicks from people using the TOR network
b) Views/clicks from sites such as HitLeap - we have a long blacklist of such sites that is kept constantly up to date
c) Views/clicks from any IP addresses associated with the publisher
So we can assure advertisers that we are actively doing are utmost to ensure that the vast majority of views/clicks are genuine - but of course we will never be able to guarantee 100%.
We already frequently ban publishers who are deliberately breaking these rules - and we will continue to do so, after full investigation of each case.
2) CPC campaigns
We already have direct CPC campaigns. Network CPC (and CPM) campaigns are on our schedule to do, but are not currently top priority as we are not being told there is much demand for this from most advertisers - other than the few requests we have noted on this forum. These will come eventually but even so, will not really make any difference to (1) above - in fact it is probably more likely that publishers might try to fake clicks!
3) @iawgoM - I looked at our logs for the ad space that you mentioned. It seems that a large number of the views and clicks are showing to be from the 'Googlebot' web crawler. This may either be some problem with the Googlebot (repeatedly crawling this site) or could potentially be someone imitating it fraudulently. Either way, you are right that these should not be counting towards the view/click statistics. This will explain your high bounce rate. I have checked and this is the only ad space that has this problem, there are only a total of 7 clicks for all the other ad spaces put together from the 'Googlebot'
There have been no direct CPM or CPC campaigns run against this ad space, so there are no advertisers to refund.
Network campaigns are paid by the day, so are not really relevant here - all it means is that you have received a (relatively small) amount of extra traffic from the Googlebot (or an imitator!).
We have now put in place a system to exclude this type of traffic so hopefully you not see this particular problem going forward.
1) Legit/Real vs Fake views/clicks
We already automatically exclude a large number of views and clicks that we deem are fake or highly suspicious.
These include (but are not limited to)...
a) Views/clicks from people using the TOR network
b) Views/clicks from sites such as HitLeap - we have a long blacklist of such sites that is kept constantly up to date
c) Views/clicks from any IP addresses associated with the publisher
So we can assure advertisers that we are actively doing are utmost to ensure that the vast majority of views/clicks are genuine - but of course we will never be able to guarantee 100%.
We already frequently ban publishers who are deliberately breaking these rules - and we will continue to do so, after full investigation of each case.
2) CPC campaigns
We already have direct CPC campaigns. Network CPC (and CPM) campaigns are on our schedule to do, but are not currently top priority as we are not being told there is much demand for this from most advertisers - other than the few requests we have noted on this forum. These will come eventually but even so, will not really make any difference to (1) above - in fact it is probably more likely that publishers might try to fake clicks!
3) @iawgoM - I looked at our logs for the ad space that you mentioned. It seems that a large number of the views and clicks are showing to be from the 'Googlebot' web crawler. This may either be some problem with the Googlebot (repeatedly crawling this site) or could potentially be someone imitating it fraudulently. Either way, you are right that these should not be counting towards the view/click statistics. This will explain your high bounce rate. I have checked and this is the only ad space that has this problem, there are only a total of 7 clicks for all the other ad spaces put together from the 'Googlebot'
There have been no direct CPM or CPC campaigns run against this ad space, so there are no advertisers to refund.
Network campaigns are paid by the day, so are not really relevant here - all it means is that you have received a (relatively small) amount of extra traffic from the Googlebot (or an imitator!).
We have now put in place a system to exclude this type of traffic so hopefully you not see this particular problem going forward.
September 15, 2015, 02:44:04 AM
I guess I'll just manually buy those ad spaces that are showing me "realistic" traffic and visits... and ignore those with 100% bounce rate and 00:00:00 visit time...
Still, OP should take more care of paying advertisers...
Still, OP should take more care of paying advertisers...
September 14, 2015, 08:02:17 PM
that is the issue with CPM. CPC would kill these traffic exchanges,
exactly what I said but baztardo has no plans in adding it, at one point he mentioned it was in the works but that was almost 2 months ago and nothing since
CPC has been available for well over a month. But this can be gamed, too. Just analyzing traffic is a great way to kill off the traffic exchanges -- it's easy to see where hits are coming from, and there are "workarounds" people use that are pretty obvious as well.
I meant Network CPC Ads, not just per site
Ah, yeah, no news about that yet. I figured it was a no-go.
September 14, 2015, 06:48:45 PM
that is the issue with CPM. CPC would kill these traffic exchanges,
exactly what I said but baztardo has no plans in adding it, at one point he mentioned it was in the works but that was almost 2 months ago and nothing since
CPC has been available for well over a month. But this can be gamed, too. Just analyzing traffic is a great way to kill off the traffic exchanges -- it's easy to see where hits are coming from, and there are "workarounds" people use that are pretty obvious as well.
I meant Network CPC Ads, not just per site
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