tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735507024656164968.post323691015493328526..comments2023-10-14T09:19:23.871-04:00Comments on Just Throw Money: Have I Caught Entrecard Cheating?Sharkbytes (TM)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08379841586422814410noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735507024656164968.post-71074123370852341562009-11-30T14:27:17.289-05:002009-11-30T14:27:17.289-05:00Corneyman- when I did this I did not even realize ...Corneyman- when I did this I did not even realize that the sponsored ads had begun. I was counting a widget at that led directly to EC. Only one of the sponsored ads does this. Unless that one ad was showing up 23 or 24 out of the 38 or 39 that I counted, this is still very out of whack with the 15% commitment.<br /><br />The number of sponsored ads in the system should have no effect on the promise of taking "no more than 15% of your ad impressions."Sharkbytes (TM)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08379841586422814410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735507024656164968.post-28735811955645466902009-11-30T13:59:49.694-05:002009-11-30T13:59:49.694-05:00It was just a one-time surge of sponsored ads in t...It was just a one-time surge of sponsored ads in the last week. Like i wrote in <a href="http://cornys-moneypage.blogspot.com/2009/11/entrecard-facts-about-sponsored-ads.html" rel="nofollow">my Facts about the sponsored ads</a>, it's way too expensive.<br /><br />I don't believe there will be anymore so many ads at once.<br /><br />First of all, the members who advertise loose themselves clicks when there are more than 6 sponsored ads.<br /><br />And if you advertise only in one category, it will get boring for many members as these ads can last up to one month. Don't know if you would click each day on the same ad from the same blog.<br /><br />I guess they had to raise the % otherwise there wouldn't be a lot of clicks/day for all 12 advertisers. And i think EntreCard wanted that they spent again 25$ for the next campaign, so it's better to show the ads in a faster pace :(<br /><br />But they are wrong as Adgitize is much more effective even when you get just 50% of the daily clicks but for this is more than 75% cheaper advertisement!Martin@Cornyman's Money-Bloghttp://cornys-moneypage.blogspot.com/2009/11/entrecard-facts-about-sponsored-ads.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735507024656164968.post-80965543792119881872009-11-29T21:32:46.410-05:002009-11-29T21:32:46.410-05:00I've done your experiment and you are correct....I've done your experiment and you are correct. basically paid ads show up 5 times as much as ec paid ads.<br />this is why I will be getting out.<br />the dead widgets are another problem that they don't address. I've gotten so many penalties lately for just dropping that I'm fed up.<br /><br />trust me, entrecard is going down.RE - Entrepodhttp://pod313.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735507024656164968.post-54930378725418599282009-11-29T11:56:56.614-05:002009-11-29T11:56:56.614-05:00John- I think I should check it when logged out, b...John- I think I should check it when logged out, but I hate to because it will take all that time to load 100 pages, and I can't even get anything out of it except a blog post!<br /><br />And, agreed, I should check just reloading one site 100 times.<br /><br />What a project!Sharkbytes (TM)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08379841586422814410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735507024656164968.post-24786259611812718402009-11-28T03:47:08.639-05:002009-11-28T03:47:08.639-05:00I forgot to say the Entrecard widget doesn't s...I forgot to say the Entrecard widget doesn't show on some blogs using certain browsers. Even the Entrecard Blog had this problem at one point with IE6. I assume it's due to the different ways browsers handle bad HTML.John | Make Nothing Onlinehttp://makenothingonline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735507024656164968.post-61115134687839956182009-11-27T17:55:47.838-05:002009-11-27T17:55:47.838-05:00I hope Entrecard aren't cheating bloggers. It ...I hope Entrecard aren't cheating bloggers. It certainly wouldn't be in their best interests.<br /><br />If you want to check the result over a few thousand widget impressions you could just load the ad, e.g. http://adn.entrecard.com/advert?spot=44340<br /><br />It'd be interesting to see the % served if you're logged out.<br /><br />It certainly looks suspicious, but I don't understand why Entrecard would cheat. They don't care about upsetting the community so if they wanted to take 50% why not just tell us?John | Retro Programminghttp://retrocode.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com