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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:43 pm Post subject: Question re: AdSense IDs and blogs
Do we have to start a blog to be eligible? Because I've got an idea for my own blog (actually, not so much a blog as a new concept in blogging), but I haven't launched it yet.
Also, is there any field for putting in an AdSense channel so that we can track our clickthroughs from HEDir?
I put in my publisher ID already though.
Cool idea! This rocks. _________________ HEDir's Prince of Cool
One other question: is there any way we can start forums that are not necessarily related to HEDir reviews and things, so that we can give and get advice? It would provide more content for the site, possibly attract new visitors (if we got the forums indexed) and provide an additional revenue source for all if we activated the AdSense on it. _________________ HEDir's Prince of Cool
The ads tend to be the same for some reason. Either I'm seeing Cheap Web Hosting, or an ad for some Ait Ben Haddou Morocco thing. Anyone else seeing this stuff? _________________ HEDir's Prince of Cool
OK, now I get it. Only the pub-id of the last poster is thrown into the randomizer. I just posted in a submission-thread where ADAM posted first. Checked source and ADAM's pub-id was in the randomizer. After my post, ADAM's pub-id was replaced by mine. _________________ Please review some sites.
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Last edited by baggeroli on Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:16 pm
One other question: is there any way we can start forums that are not necessarily related to HEDir reviews and things, so that we can give and get advice? It would provide more content for the site, possibly attract new visitors (if we got the forums indexed) and provide an additional revenue source for all if we activated the AdSense on it.
Yah, we can. Let me finish the priority projects first, then we will discuss about it. _________________ Evolution is always better than revolution. My attempt at Blogging!
Messed up with my maths again . Here is an explanation
Wrong one
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var randNum = Math.random()*10;
var randNum = Math.round(randNum);
Corrected one
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var randNum = Math.random()*10;
var randNum = Math.floor(randNum);
Here Math.random() generates a number between 0 to 1 (0 and 1 is not included). so when I multiply anything to close to 0 say .0000001 with 10 it gives a number very close to 0 and a floor will make it 0. Now if get a number very close to one .999999999 and when I multiply it with 10 it will give me a number very close to 10 but the floor will make it 9.
Thus we will get a number between 0 to 9 and then this program will work fine.
Hope I am not fired after this mistake , thanks for pointing it out.
HEDir Developer, do you have a name? Or do we call you H.D.?
Serious thought and potential for abuse occurred to me here, thanks to baggeroli's comment that the publisher ID being used is that of the last poster. I'm going to use an example here, and make myself the bad guy in the example (not that I'd do this, so that's why I'm using me as the example):
Let's say I make a post to a thread. As of that second that I submit it, I'm the last poster. Which means that it's my ID in there.
Now, baggeroli reads the thread and makes whatever positive comments he makes, thus making his publisher ID the one that shows up in the script.
I'm a jerk. And I don't want anyone taking away potential revenue from me, so I either:
1) Stare at the board and post a minute later to override the ID back to my own.
2) Take the much easier route of automating a script that will do that for me.
My suggestion would be to gather all the unique publisher IDs of the posters in the thread and pick one at random. I'd imagine this could be done in PHP easily enough...if worse comes to worst, it could be done in Javascript and I have a code snippet I could post here (from a random banner rotator, but it could easily be retrofitted).
Just a thought, so that potential abuse is nailed before it becomes a problem. _________________ HEDir's Prince of Cool
HEDir Developer, do you have a name? Or do we call you H.D.?
Let me start with a simpler question , I do not know whether I should use my name or not as later I may shift and someone else will join as Hedir developer. I just thought that even if I leave the office let the official name remains. btw my name is ******* and am helping Hedir technically. Just my opinion, I am happy in either ways.
Now the difficult question, Adsense rotational policy. So now we have following options,
Shows the last poster's adsense only.
Shows the topic starter's adsense only.
displaying adsense for all the posters under the thread with equal probability.
have a little complex algo and find who contributed more and display the adsense accordingly.
And one more suggestion, do we have this adsense only on reviews forum for next three month as it will help us get more reviews.
Let me know your suggestion that I can move in that direction.
I think you can go with 3), although I do like the idea of 4), just because 3) will reward regular contributors that review different users' sites.
So that's one vote for 3).
And hi ****** (which I'm almost certain never to remember, so from now on, whoever the Hedir Developer is, Imma just call you Josh. I can spell Josh. )
*post edited to remove developer name in accordance with hedir internal policy _________________ HEDir's Prince of Cool
And hi ****** (which I'm almost certain never to remember, so from now on, whoever the Hedir Developer is, Imma just call you Josh. I can spell Josh. Smile )
, I got a new name.
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So that's one vote for 3).
Thanks Adam, I am not implementing anything new with adsense. Let me hear the community voice and I implement it accordingly.
You covered all the possible solutions pretty well.
It was good to have a look over them and made it easier to know what should happen from the 4 scenerios you posted.
I would have to pick (3) as well. It takes all the malicius potential out of the adsense.
Anything absolute keeps the drama out of Hedir. I see (3) as an absolute solution. any other option would mean having to moderate posts simply for adsense.
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