CAMS.com - feedback on promo material

[signupdamnit]

The Model image tool is very cool and I think it has a lot of potential. But there appears to be one small issue. It seems to re-rank the performer popularity so quickly that often by the time the customer clicks the thumb it is a new performer entirely that they get and not the one that actually made them click. So that might have a small effect on conversions since ideally you want the surfer to go to the same model that made them click, if possible.

Here's what I mean:

(altered to work with ubb code instead of html)



Load it, wait 30 seconds and then click it. The odds are that you won't get that same model. It seems to be because you update the positions (within seconds sometimes) so quickly that a new model fills that number position (in this case #26 as coded into the url). The easiest way to somewhat fix this that I can see and without making things a lot more complex might be to change the interval at which models are re-ranked to something longer like 60 or 90 seconds. Not necessarily the update interval of the image itself but the actual rank position changing is the problem. Again cool tool otherwise. Nice innovation.

[nsacm]

have the banner start a session, read the session on the page when they click through and show the correct model

[signupdamnit]

Originally Posted by nsacm

have the banner start a session, read the session on the page when they click through and show the correct model

Well this is their promo material that they serve. The code you put in is like so:

<a href="http://banners.cams.com/p/cams/view.cgi?pid=g811111-po&&action=bio&stream_num=26&genre_keys=01,02,05,08,09" target="_top"><img src="http://banners.cams.com/won_list/26.jpg?pid=g811111-po&genre_keys=01,02,05,08,09" width="160" height="120" border="0"></a>

The "stream_num" parameter (and image name) seems to determine the position/rank of the model shown. But that seems to update every second or two now so often say the model who was #26 becomes model #30 by the time the surfer clicks the link. The surfer is still taken to the current model #26 and not the old one.

They could do something more complex to fix it like a session or cookie tied to the the name of the performer actually shown in the image served at that time. That would work too. But setting the ranking interval higher would also be a bit simpler (depending on how they have things coded) though not perfect and wouldn't require sessions or cookies. Hopefully if they do that they ensure that it still works with multiple instances as it does now.

I LOVE how it doesn't require an IFRAME right now and how it's just simple basic HTML.

[Sean]

old school tool that we made for a few people. you can hard link to the model if you want, but there are good chances that she has gone to private.

there is a cam-in-a-box product that is cool. have you seen it?

[signupdamnit]

Originally Posted by Irish Pimp

old school tool that we made for a few people. you can hard link to the model if you want, but there are good chances that she has gone to private.

there is a cam-in-a-box product that is cool. have you seen it?

Yes, that one is awesome too. This particular tool is actually very interesting though. You can easily for example show seven models by genre and integrate it into the site. Fast loading, just small images rather than video streams or need for flash. I suspect people just don't use it enough because they don't see it's potential. For instance how easily I was able to get a working display with a fully functioning affiliate link on the forum using only ubb code. Great tool!

[Elli]

Originally Posted by signupdamnit

Yes, that one is awesome too. This particular tool is actually very interesting though. You can easily for example show seven models by genre and integrate it into the site. Fast loading, just small images rather than video streams or need for flash. I suspect people just don't use it enough because they don't see it's potential. For instance how easily I was able to get a working display with a fully functioning affiliate link on the forum using only ubb code. Great tool!

Very glad you like it! It's always tricky trying to link directly to a model, since they can jump into private or 'nude' chat so frequently, and as you see, more sign on and off the system all the time so the rankings are not static.