Follow up - Adverts on LES

DrNutella

This gamification is genius.

AnthonySmith

day 10 i think

cmeerw

Not sure if I have missed it, but how many paid with real money vs. karma?

AnthonySmith

@cmeerw said:
Not sure if I have missed it, but how many paid with real money vs. karma?

AnthonySmith

@davide said:
Are you aware of the click thru ratio between registered/unregistered users? Each time I changed the ad image I got clicks for the first day then a drop thereafter, I suspect first-time visitors coming from Google are ad-blind and the only clicks are from members checking out the novelty of a new ad image.

sorted this morning.

Click on the advert for the extra detail in the right hand bar

Obviously, this was not captured until today so I just had to push everything as being guests up to today, so past data is essentially useless on it, but it should build correct stats from today.

AnthonySmith

I am a bit behind in adding these stats to the https://lowendspirit.com/lessquares section but here is 30 days:

Served is just the number of times they have been rendered in total.

Confirmed on screen is when we are 100% sure it was a human and that it 100% showed up with 0 margin for error; anything with so much as a funky or unexpected user agent is kept out of here; anything that is suspected to be a proxy or VPS is kept out; anything that so much as triggered the low-hanging fruit adblock trap is kept out; the reality is likely much higher, but we only show what is confirmed. this method was borrowed from TinyAdz and I thought it was a VERY fair way of doing things.

buySellAds and other platforms by comparison, would simply show the first number as views to boost perceived value.

Blocked is the "we know it did not render" number

Clicks is the number of clicks. For people that hold a square, you can see the split of logged-in vs not logged-in user clicks. Click detection can also be blocked and not counted, just like anything else but we can't detect this block, so again the real number is likely much higher if these are confirmed i.e. raw, no blocking of any type in use.

As a reminder, you don't need to pay money; you can just spend karma you get from being generally a good forum member, and it does not have to promote any commercial service (just ask @Neoon). You can also promote other sites you visit, other forums, projects, favourite git, a YouTube channel, anything.

It is open to users and providers.