Adveritising Update

[Gideon]

Well we have been with the new popup advertising company for quite some time now, and they are doing a great job. For the most part people have been reporting that they get a maximum of one popup per page, with a few exceptions, and for the most part they have been "clean" ads, some even pertaining to our genre (xbox and video game ads). Anyway, these past 3 weeks I have noticed an unfavorable trend in our click through percentage.

Ad companies like to see a .25% Click Through Ratio (CTR). We started out strong and maintained a .25% CTR for about a month. About 3 weeks ago it dropped to .19%, and then 2 weeks ago down to .13%, and then this past week down to .06%. However, our average is still fairly decent in the high teens, but it won't stay that way with percentages under 10 each week.

This is just an encouragment announcement to remind everyone that SWF is not free to run. I haven't bugged you too much lately, and I don't want to nag, but we really need some more support for our sponsors. Supporting the popup ads as well as the banners would be a huge help.

Thank you.
-Gid

[McFox]

I have a question. Sometimes, especially with the "Infospace" popups, I'll click them, and the site it's advertising says "Page Cannot be Displayed." Either something's wrong with my browser of the site. Does it still count because I clicked it, or will it not count since the page is down. If it doesn't count, I know you can't change which ads you have, but you could notify your ad server to get that site back so it counts for the click-thru rate.

[Gideon]

well, if its a popup that requires you to fill out info and you didnt, maybe thats why its not working... Ive never received those errors, but I will look into it.

[McFox]

No, it's just a normal popup. And when I click it, it says "Page Cannot Be Displayed." I'm pretty sure the titlebar is "Infopop" or "Infospace" or something like that.

*EDIT* It's definitely Infospace, I just got it again. Clicked it, and it didn't work. I'm thinking there's something wrong with the site.

[Luigi_Factor]

Edit - i dindnt look really hard but...

Just a question.. do we get anything if we donate? i have some cash in my paypal thats just sorta sitting their... if i could get like a custom avatar.. that would be some cool stuff.

Btw, whats usually a good amount? srk is like $2.50 a month, or 20 for a year or something.. just curious if we get anything for helping out.

[Gideon]

hey, check out the following topic for what you get for certain donations:

http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?threadid=18395

-Gid

[ender]

This has happened about 4-5 times tonight. I am just looking around smash boards and a pop up of "AMERIPATH" comes up. When the title bar says -microsoft internet...- I can close it, but when the title says "ameripath" I ant close it and my computer freezes. Very annoying. Is there anyway to fix it?

[Duck]

do you only have to click on the inital pop-up for it to register??
or do you have to go deeper into the actual page that comes up once you click on the pop-up?
me hopes you can understand that.

its just that i dont want to waste my time clicking on the pop-ups if it isnt doing any good.

[Gideon]

just click 'em and letting em loads helps fine.

[Craftstar]

It's wierd, ads don't popup at smashboards on my computer. I don't even have a popup killer--oh well =(

[Limey]

Most people get 1? Bah, i get about 2-3.

And yeah, thanks for the reminder, i'd all but forgot about the banners.

[Gideon]

banners aren't as important as popups :)

some of you may not be getting as many popups because fo your privac y setting... mine is on medium ,so it blocks some of the third party cookies which results in less popups... I get a max of one per page.

[MeBobSquarepants]

I always get 2-3 pop-ups but how do you set your privacy settings. Why is my old user deleted. by the way this site really rocks

ROCK ON:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

[neodan]

go to internet options> privacy

Thanks gideon tat really works i clicked like 20 pages i only got 2 pop ups!

[pokemonmaster01]

Privacy settings are different depending on computer and internet service provider.

Your old user was deleted in the crash.

And yes, this site does rock.

[MeBobSquarepants]

ow now i Get it ............NOT

It doesn't matter ITs problaby also because i'm dutch and i'm not so good in English

[GR81]

uhh, i got at least 35 pop ups, only there were only 2 different kinds of pop ups, this was all on the same page 2, i erased one of them, the other popped up and i erased that the original popped up, that cycle continued for a while, i had 2 quit cause the pop ups were keepin me from accessing the page

[GR81]

i have soooo many i can barely type this message, HEEELLP!

[tissue]

I'm getting a pop-up stating i should enter my username and password. is it ok to do so?

[Crimson King]

I have the same pop-up as tissue reported.
I get it mainly in the Lighthouse though. I never bothered enter info because I don't know what it is.

[Gideon]

hmm, please takea screenshot of that popup next time you get it and send it to me.

[Kirby King]

I think you guys are talking about the username/password box that came up because of the Topsites... and Gid fixed that after I told him. So don't be surprised if you don't get that pop up again, but if it's something else, just... uh... ignore me, I guess.

[Gideon]

ah, okay, yeah that makes sense. You shouldn't get that anymore :P