I started out using google adsence on my newest website, http://www.crysis2leaked.com few weeks ago. I got burned bad by them, so after nearly 10 years of google use, I deleted all my accounts with them and stop using them, I was furious. I then used bidvertiser, and i didnt get any activity in 1 week using them so I went to clicksor. Clicksor has been perfect for me, even better then addsence cause it counts different ways of paying and more adds to chose from. It suited my site much better and Iv been very happy with my earnings and how there adds display on my site. Now Iv come to another road block which there has been many for me. This one hurts. Clicksor like many other add networks requires a rule, "Affiliate must have at least 50% + US, CA, GB traffic or will result in account suspension." Its not like I didnt know this when I started, I look at my stats very carefully and seeing my countries list in my cpanel webhosting awstats, I Seen my US traffic was like quadruple then any other country so I figured I was ok there. Now after a week, everything has been great and I was looking over some of my stats, and I decided to some number crunching on my visitors. I have a ton of countries I get visitors from and looking at just the pages, my total USA/GB/CA traffic reaches 12500 so far, and all the other added up is around 16000. This is below 50%. What should I do? I really like clicksor and I dont wana get burned again like getting banned from addsence. Does anyone know what kinda count clicksor uses for there traffic, do they look at unique visitors only or do they look at pages, hits and bandwidth as well? I'm getting sorta frustrated with monetization and add networks to be honest. Iv been through a dozen or so different ones and there is always something major obsticle in the way that I have to deal with and makes it not work for me. Not only that, but I get no support, or any type of warnings or account managements advice from any networks. Your either doing fine or your getting banned, theres no middle ground and its cut throat. Jesus whys it got be frigin 50%, why cant it be 40% or something, that's more reasonable. I mean theres other people in the world then the americas and UK. lol, pshh...I would go ahead and ask support about it, but I don't want to raise suspicion for no reason. I just cant seem to find any other advertising networks that will compete with clicksor, I know there are literally thousands out there but it takes so long to find something that suits you. I can ban countries in my joomla backend but I don't want to do that to people. Here are some pictures, any advice would be very much helpfull.
Thats what i was telling about in my first post, about how advertising company's don't give you any support when it comes to contact with there publishers. You never get any warning or notices of anything to tell you how your doing besides stats reports. Thats not what I made this thread for though, Im done with google.
Seems the key here is "GB traffic". You have been looking at the pages column when you should be looking at the bandwidth column. Hope this helps. From looking at your numbers it seems like you are safe, btw.
Well here is pic of my bandwidth, you can see its 7.22 gb total so far. If you add up my US/CA/GB traffic with a calculator, it comes out to roughly 2.5 gb which isnt half of 7.22 I would really like to know what clicksor uses when they determine who has 50% traffic or not. Do they use unique visitors only? I would assume this is the way they check but it could be a number of things also.
I honestly don't know. When I posted my earlier reply I was just basing it on what I found in their faq and what I could see of your stats. Sorry I couldn't be of any more help.
There are some high-end CPM networks you can try such as Adsdaq, TribalFusion, ValueClick, Casale Media. I think adsdaq has a really good rate for US since that seems like that's the one geo that you have the most of.
Ya I got turned down by value click and adsdaq. Tribal and casale all need like a million unique visitors a day.
I talked to two different customer service reps on clicksor, neither one new how they calculate stats for review of the 50% traffic rule. I do know though that you arnt automaticly accepted into there program, they review your site within the first week to three weeks is what the reps said and they either ban you or accept you.
There are many different CPM networks, the only thing I understood working with them is that it all depends on type of your audience. It depends of positions, sizes, countries etc. I used to work for 2 years with CPX, then 6 months with Xtend Media, then 1 year with axill, and now I work with Pixfuture Media, so far it works best for me. Those companies use same source from Right Media, where pixfuture has bid system and their support works better. However, you need to have big amount of traffic to be exepted with them. Anyway your choice, but I suggest stick with one company and deliver as much as you can. chrs!
I celebrated by going out to walmart and grabbing some stuff to grill. Woot! When I talked to the sales rep she said they check a few times so I will have to keep up what I have been doing. There is also a 50$ minmum amount you must meet in 6 month period which is when payout is available. Heres to getting paid and having some breakfast moneys!