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Originally Posted by evildick
Uhhh, 25,000 hits A MONTH? What is he hosting his site on? A Pentium 3 with his own cable connection?
I could understand it if it was 25,000 per day, but not a month. We're talking much less than 1000 hits a day here folks.
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Well, now the story is changing. Apparently its 800K requests and 800 page views from a Free Hosted Banner that PMT offers, and he is bitching about this. So apparently, he is bitching about the fact that he served up a banner 800K times but only got 800 clicks out of it, which still does not hold water. I am not sure where the 1:25K ratio talk came from. Paul is not exactly being helpful in this regards, he does not seem to know even what files were being requested or what content the affiliate was using of his.
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Originally Posted by REßEL
FOR FUCKS SAKE!
Everyone has missed my point. There is nothing fucking unusual about the stats!
795 pages
878727
It's fucking BANNER IMPRESSIONS Vs Click Thrus. What is so hard to understand there?
The affiliate in question is using PMT's HOSTED BANNERS. Of course he's going to cause WAY MORE hits than pages, as every page of his that's viewed will cause a PMT server hit, but only clicks will cause a PMT page hit.
If he used 2 PMT hosted banners on a page he's going to cause 2 PMT server hits every time one of his own pages is loaded. It's a TV station site, it has traffic, so of course that traffic is going to cause lots of hits. There's nothing friggin fraudulent there. Just McMarkham having no fucking clue as to how the net works, as usual.
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I'd say that last sentence there sums it up just about right.
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Originally Posted by erots
bhahaha. saw the original thread. just wanted to say that this is priceless
You see, although you still don't get this.. your problem was the HOSTED banner. Because he used your hosted banner you got shit loads of hits and so few page views. Actually depending on what time frame you got them.. who knows it might have been shit loads of page views. This guy might have been your first whale. Are these stats generated in an hour, two hours.. day?
What these stats mean is that people viewed your banner 878727 times in that time period and people who managed to get your site generated 795 page views. If everyone generated 1 page view then you got 795 clicks in that time frame. If this time frame was 1 hours you would have got 19080 clicks/day from that guy. I haven't included here that your tour was down, so he probably would have sent you much much more. But lets not speculate shall we.
The fact is, your site is not capable to handle whales and instead of learning from this incident you try to defend yourself and you are rude against everyone who doesn't agree with you. Nothing new really, again you are showing everyone that it is impossible to work with you, as you can't stand being wrong.
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So he landed his first whale and proceeded to slaughter it because it got him wet is the summary of it.
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Originally Posted by Megafoo
Paul Markham can do whatever he wants its his affiliate program, i'd kick a 1 in 20,000 ratio myself if i had a paysite. Its a paysite. its not like he can trade the traffic away and push the crap traffic on someone else to deal with. He is the one paying the bandwidth, just shut the fuck up and move on.
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Originally Posted by slapass
It is a business relationship. He does not have an obligation to give you an affiliate account. Aren't you the guy who thinks torrents are ok too? Where is Paul's freedom? Let freedom ring right?
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Originally Posted by Shoplifter
It's hardly immoral to close a malfunctioning account. I've had lots of tards not realizing they are sending Turkish hitbot traffic to my FHG's.
It's not even drama...It's just prudent business. Considering all the outright shaving and theft that goes on via GFY this is nothing at all.
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You know, on both of the other boards, the verdict against Paul on this is damn near unanimously against him. Somehow, I don't think its because this place houses contributors who possess a level of knowledge not found on the other boards. Oh yeah, and it wasn't me who got my account closed, 'tards.
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Originally Posted by Aussie Rebel
I normally stay out of your threads because I don't like you, but mate I really have to ask you something and I'm not trying to be a smartie or anything because I'm not really well liked here either, but why are you still here man? I really am not trolling I just dont understand why
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Because I want to be here. Should have stayed out of this thread as well, since you don't have anything worthwhile to contribute.