Does clicking on the Google and WOodcraft, etc advertisement headers and allowing them to fully load onto my PC actually pay the forum or are these companies wise enought to require that you actually cruise beyond the first page? I like to click occassionally just to help out the site. Does anybody know?
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Blessings,
Chiz
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I always was under impression that site gets paid by the number of times a given banner gets displayed, not how many times it got clicked. -
I thought the opposite, clicking brings revenue, e.g. that's why they are having the so called "click fraud".
But I think in the case of the banners on BT3central, clicking on the banner will bring you to their site with a cookie (or maybe a flag in the URL) indicating you came by way of BT3central. When you buy with this cookie on, then BT3central will get some small percentage fee. The flag or cookie will stay activated thru your entire visit to that site.
Which is why some people do their on-line ww'ing store shopping thru here. Alex Franke, I think, has made some URLs with the flag in it so that you can put it in your bookmark and get it always credited to BT3.
Go to Alex Franke member profile page, you can generate a link from there for a specified Amazon product.Last edited by LCHIEN; 07-23-2007, 09:28 AM.
Loring in Katy, TX USA
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It's a little complicated...
Amazon.com, Woodcraft, and Rockler all require that you actually BUY something before BT3Central gets any revenue. They are "Affiliates Links".
Any Google Ad generates revenue only when it gets clicked.Sam Conder
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How times changed. When I was one of admins on a forum circa 1999-2000, the site got paid by the number of times an ad banner was served to the user's browser. I guess the proliferation of ad filters (so a user would not see the ad even if his browser got it) caused the changes.Comment
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