Q: I have generated so many clicks, why am I not get paid for them?

We are not a pay-per-click or pay-per-impression network. We just allocate advertisers' money on publishers' ad units in accordance with unique impressions. Advertisers get a share of impressions from an ad unit in proportion to the amount of money spent on it (see how it works on ad unit's campaign page, e. g.: <a href="https://a-ads.com/ad_units/1/campaigns">https://a-ads.com/ad_units/1/campaigns</a>). <img src="https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/6a953c4814a02400/screenshot-12_1wjdons.png" alt="" />

Question 1

I have generated so many clicks, why am I not get paid for them?

Accepted Answer

We are not a pay-per-click or pay-per-impression network. We just allocate advertisers' money on publishers' ad units in accordance with unique impressions.

Advertisers get a share of impressions from an ad unit in proportion to the amount of money spent on it (see how it works on ad unit's campaign page, e. g.: https://a-ads.com/ad_units/1/campaigns).

Question 2

How are unique impressions counted? Are the numbers correct?

Accepted Answer

We've got an alternative method of counting unique impressions - we count as unique only globally unique impressions. That's why our numbers are different from what you see in Google Analytics or on other ad networks.

Counting globally unique impressions means that one IP can be counted as unique only once a day within the whole A-ADS network. So a visitor (regarded as one IP) produces a unique impression when he first sees any of our ads on any of our publishing sites, and he doesn't produce another unique impression this day, no matter what sites he visits and what ads he sees.

So unique impressions numbers you see on our network will normally be less than those you see in other places. But don't worry - it doesn't affect your earnings as the counting method is the same for all our publishers.

Question 3

My website generates a lot of quality traffic, but my earnings are too low!

Accepted Answer

In order to understand our payment policy you'll need to understand how any online advertising operates:

Ad networks have advertisers which target certain demographics (e.g. geographical location, web browser language, user age, the type of a device, etc.)
Ad networks have publishers which offer their traffic to the advertisers

Here are situations when your earnings might not be satisfactory and how you can mitigate the issue:

We don't have advertisers targeting your location or your audience language - unfortunately in this case there's little we can do to increase your eanings
You limit advertisers by filtering certain categories of ads e.g. Gambling or Risky Investments - you can enable at least these two categories
Your audience is not engaged enough, e.g. your users never click on our banners - our advertisers not only expect clicks which are easy to fake but conversions
Our algorithms have identified your website as low-quality (e.g. it contains zero valuable up to date content) - improve your website

Please mind that:

A-ADS does not guarantee any earnings.
A-ADS cannot guarantee the same earnings for the same traffic.
A-ADS pays our publishers 80% of our daily advertising budget depending on the share of your globally unique traffic within the entire A-ADS network.
Our daily budget varies a lot as advertisers come and go and have varying CPM.
Our advertisers don't target all the countries and languages. We would love to pay for all your traffic

Question 4

How do I create an ad unit for a site with many pages (each with unique or dynamic URL)?

Accepted Answer

You can create an ad unit for one page and use it on all other pages within the same domain. Make sure the pages share the same domain name, otherwise your impressions won't be counted as unique.

Our bot will verify whether the ad unit HTML code is actually present at the specified URL to calculate website's health.

Question 5

How to fix empty targeting

Accepted Answer

The status "empty targeting" means that there are no ad units that match your campaign's settings and targeting criteria.

The most popular causes and solutions:

* You have enabled "Show banners only", but did not upload the banners that match the sizes of the targeted ad units

Either disable the Show banners only option, or upload the required banners to fix the issue.

* You target expensive traffic sources, but did not set a high enough Max CPM value for your CPD-campaign

Go to your Campaign -> Payment model page and set the Max CPM to the maximum allowed value.

* You target only a few sites/ad units that don't generate traffic, don't match your campaign's settings or have rejected your ad

Add more sites/ad units or entire categories. Disable the options that may exclude the ad units from your targeting, such as:

Approved sites only (beta)
Alexa Top 1M Sites only (beta)
Show banner only

* You use Geo-filtering but the targeted ad units have less than 30% of traffic from the selected countries

Add more countries or don't use Geo-filtering.

* Your ad has a rating that is not allowed by the selected traffic sources

Try to fix your ad or select other traffic sources. Contact support if your ad is rated incorrectly.

General recommendations:

Increase Max CPM
Upload more graphical banners
Don't use Geo-filtering
Target All traffic or multiple categories
Uncheck "Alexa rank only", "A-ADS approved site

Question 6

How can I see my ads published on your sites?

Accepted Answer

Actually, there's no easy way to do it, but it can be done.

First, you need to know the sites that promote your ads.

Go to your campaign page -> Traffic sources -> Exclude from campaign (e.g. https://a-ads.com/campaigns/1/ad_units). Here you can see a list of ad units that display your advertisement. Please, mind they are sorted like "probable sources of fake traffic first".

Then you click on any of them (e.g. ad unit 1), look at its campaigns (https://a-ads.com/ad_units/1/campaigns) and search through them. Here you can find your campaign and % of the ad unit traffic bought by your campaign.

You can check any other ad unit the same way. But you should understand the share of your campaign's traffic from this ad unit isn't constant.

Second, you should choose the ad unit where your campaign has the greatest traffic share and visit its site. Now you reload the site until you see your ad. That's all.

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