Posted by kexbrown on September 9, 2009
Over the summer Adgitize experienced Explosive growth. Cornyman in a recent forum posted the following and I quote, “Since I joined in April, you doubled now the memberships, tripled the Ads shown from 13 Million to 39 Million and tripled also the Advertisers from 55 to now 170!
Adgitize Shows Expansion in All Areas
Adgitize has shown expansion in all areas of the business and we are very excited for the future. When I started Adgitize in November 2008, I targeted two advertising services as my competitors, Ad Toll and Project Wonderful. I had used both of these services in the past and felt that I could compete with them in this marketplace.
If you use Alexa and Compete as broad indicators of the market you will see that Adgitize has moved swiftly toward overtaking it’s competitors. When we started 10 months ago we had a dream that bloggers would have an opportunity to grow their blog and earn a few dollars each month and maximize traffic. I think we have served that need in the marketplace.
AdToll serves up advertising on a cost per click basis and has a wide base of publishers. Project Wonderful has successfully created a blog marketplace for advertisers and publishers. If you examine the following images you will see that Adgitize is moving into their market. I don’t know if Adgitize is serving the same advertisers as AdToll but I know we share common advertisers and publishers with Project Wonderful.
The three Month Daily Traffic Rank Trend from Alexa shows Adgitize moving steadily toward overtaking a falling Adtoll. Project Wonderful has stayed steady which leads me to believe we can share the same marketplace without cannibalizing each other. The blue line is Adgitize and you can see that we are fluctuating everyday but we are staying longer at a rank of 20,000 each week than the week before.
Adgitize’s Compete Scores
Reviewing the Compete scores you can see that Adgitize’s Compete scores are a steadfast march upwards. Again Adgitize is in the blue. Now these scores can best be used as only a thin indicator of progress. Neither Alexa nor Compete is representative of all the traffic a web site receives and can best be used as broad indicators only. Both of our competitors could have 10 times the traffic as Adgitize and not be shown in these reports.
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But with the other numbers we are generating and succinctly reported by Cornyman, you can see that Adgitize is moving up in marketshare and scope of the business. We want to thank each of you for your part in putting us where we are today.
Thank You Adgitize Members
We could have easily done mass marketing and pulled in hundreds if not thousands of new members in a brief period. But, we chose to start slow and small and let you the members bring in other members. The benefit to you of course is affiliate earnings each month. We are literally where we are today based solely on your belief in Adgitize and your action to grow the Adgitize Market. And we the Adgitize Team thank you!
Posted by kexbrown on July 7, 2009
A few members are still having problems with their clicks counting when using FireFox. We are looking into the issue. The fact that everyone using FireFox are not having problems makes the issue harder to debug. I use FireFox all the time and I am not experiencing issues.
Many members with the problem are using FireFox 3.5. There are known issues with this version and cookies. I believe this is where the problem is. A couple of people have expressed that they are okay clicking on Monday, but then on Tuesday they can’t click again. This could be because your system is dropping your cookies per the rules this new version of FireFox employs.
Here are some links that may prove useful for you. I suggest you look very closely at the cookies.sqlite file. Some suggest you rename this file (cookies1.sqlite) and then this file will be created anew.
http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=de&forumId=1&comments_parentId=383747
Make sure your cookies for Adgitize are not blocked under Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Cookies and check the Exceptions. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Cookies or take a look at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Websites_report_cookies_are_disabled.
I don’t expect this to be a magic bullet. I am offering suggestions and we are still researching the issue on this side. If you are having a problem and you are running FireFox 3.5 it would be interesting to see what Plugins or addons you are running as that might help us determine the cause of the problem.
Posted by kexbrown on July 3, 2009
Hi ALL.
It appears the DNS changes have propagated. Last time this occurred they reset a couple of hours later. So, we will keep an eye on it. But, I was able to get in and click ads just now.
Thanks for your patience.
Still having problems getting click points?
Try opening your browser to http://www.adgitize.com/ Then click on the CTRL key and F5 key at the same time.
That should help your browser refresh it’s memory. This may not work on all browsers. Then click on the LOGOUT button if it is showing. OTherwise LOGIN again.
Posted by kexbrown on July 2, 2009
Okay – we have made the transition to the new server. There are problems. Unforeseen but not unexpected.
Important Point – Server is NOW on US CENTRAL TIME – CHICAGO TIME
The servers have moved to the Chicago Area. The daily points will be accumulated one hour later. If you normally looked at your points at 3AM you will now see them at 4AM.
The DNS servers are not totally in synch. Early today it appeared everything had transitioned. All clicks were working, ads were showing successfully and all points were updating properly. Now, it appears we are stuck on a non-updated DNS server and all ads are showing, but because of cookies and logins we are not able to successfully score click points.
This will continue to be a problem until the DNS servers are totally in-synch.
Advertisers. The good news. ALL ads are showing successfully. When members click the ads they are taken successfully and correctly to your site.
Publishers. The good news. Your ad views and page views are being counted correctly. Article feed readers are traversing the network and counting your articles. Points for articles should be added correctly. Advertiser points should be counted correctly.
Click points will be a hit or miss situation. It will eventually work itself out. You may miss a few points tonight.
There is a little email problem. I recommend all advertisers check on their ad to see if it is due for a renewal soon. You may not receive an email for a day or two.
Thank you again for your patience.
