Tracking,Linking ..and Missing

Nuffnang admittedly said that they can’t track 5% of the visits and clicks. Which is by far, a huge cry for those who needs every click or visit counted. Surprisingly, analytics can’t account for ads and clicks if they are fraudulent.

How can that happen? Well,some people love to SABOTAGE the blogger if they are popular enough or hated enough like me. However, Bots are something we have to dismiss against our server logs if you get my drift, but sometimes, it’s more to the ability of the viewer or reader to view the content itself.

Likewise, Nuffnang utilises Javascripts. I did point this error before to Timothy that the NUFFNANG_BID is not declared properly and mostly, users utilising Internet Explorer version 6 and above will show an Error and don’t load the ads at all due to the lack of P3P privacy policy missing within the domain. Another aspect is ICRA Rating,which rates the site as General or PG or R rated. To add salt to the wound, the drift from IE and Windows towards Linux and iMac is a serious issue. Linux don’t have Shockwave built in as the RPM and .DEB composite repository differs from each flavor whereas FLASH maybe easily plugged in using the Firefox (ICEWEASEL to some) addons. And since alot of the ads are in Shockwave, your user cannot see the ad and all they see is a broken link.

So, a tracker will show that if you are sabotaged by a MetaBot or a Crawler or even Google’s Spiders. A simple Tracker.js can show that or even a hidden pixel embedded inside the header will do a trick.Otherwise, a good AWSTATS will show that too.

So, how to make sure you get your 20c worth of click? Knowingly, a Global CPM Ad band works on a basis of how many clicks per thousand impressions. The higher the ratio, the better it works for your wallet. Remember that blogger who had RM93 for a week of ad? He has about 50 clicks per 1000 visitors. How to deliver that? Well, one way is to BEG for your Clicks. Another is to hot mention your advertiser should they paste a static one on your site. Ads like National Treasure 2 or Motorola Q2 cell phone or even the prominent Orang Oren (HAPPY.COM.MY) which is actually Digi doing it’s dirty tricks…. is one thing to entice your advertiser and reader to explore.

That way, it actually compensates your visitor and advertiser alike. Words like please visit or click my ad so I can get credit or 20c is not the way to go. That will get you kicked off any advertising network, be it Nuffnang,Advertlets or PayPerPost (oops). Blogsvertise,Blogitive and Smorty will love them though but definitely Google Adsense and Adbrite will terminate you without any payment at all in the first instance when you utilise PPC (Per Per Click) or PPV services;heck even mentioning it will get you the sack.Ask my sis, who lost $72 on Adsense because she paid 70c for 500 visitors..which surged and killed her Adsense and me, whom had a surge , overloaded my servers and got myself a kick in the behind because of the hardware failures.

So, in good faith, this will teach you to earn that big fat $1000 packets of gold from the advertising industry, and not to mention the fact of affiliate programs,which I will cover later on. As for me, this mention is to see if there is another bug on the Nuffnang system which has not been tracking my SEO Engineering 101 pageviews properly. So,every NANG will be a visit. Thanks for visiting, and for your time, I am giving you a FREE HOSTING for 2 mths, on me,and should you want more,I’ll let you in on the secret.

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Merry Christmas and have a joyous New Year!