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Re: RefBan.com Officially Launched!
Reply #75 - 20^th May, 2013 at 7:09pm

Hey guys, we have an update on the RefBan project. I contacted their support to ask about this :

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Hello, my account is upgraded to advertiser. I have a Tier 1 active referral. I have no Tier 2 active referrals. So, my Tier 1 referral must have purchased advertising in order to become active (since he has not referred another active member to the site) but I have received no commission for that sale.

Please investigate my case and let me know what happened.
Thanks in advance!

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Hi SolidSnake,

Thanks for your message.

According to your stats, you have one referral that has shown banners
and referred another user. We've recently started relaxing the criteria
to just a user, not an active user, so it's most likely that.

In future, shortly after the server move, the active criteria will be...

a) Has referred other active users

OR

b) Has shown banners

OR

c) Has advertised

Regards,

Richard Sturdy.
Referral Banners.
http://refban.com

So, the $0.02/$0.01 bonus per active referral will be easier to achieve from now on.

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Re: RefBan.com Officially Launched!
Reply #76 - 26^th May, 2013 at 6:08am

SolidSnake wrote on 20^th May, 2013 at 7:09pm:

Hey guys, we have an update on the RefBan project. I contacted their support to ask about this :

Question :

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So, the $0.02/$0.01 bonus per active referral will be easier to achieve from now on.

That is cool. I still wish I had referrals, but no matter what I do, I get none. Sad

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Re: RefBan.com Officially Launched!
Reply #77 - 29^th May, 2013 at 9:31pm

I am taking RefBan off my site. They keep making my site load very slow and not showing. Exact same thing that I posted when I joined this forum about them is going on still. I moved back to Adhitz. At least they keep their ads reliable.

I will wait until RefBan matures their ads, then try them again.

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How can I get referrals to RefBan if they don't keep their ads showing? I tried social networks. I tried referral link. Referrals are not that easy to get, and since that Aditz don't do referrals. It won't make any difference.

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Re: RefBan.com Officially Launched!
Reply #78 - 30^th May, 2013 at 12:03am

utahman1971 wrote on 29^th May, 2013 at 9:31pm:

I am taking RefBan off my site. They keep making my site load very slow and not showing. Exact same thing that I posted when I joined this forum about them is going on still. I moved back to Adhitz. At least they keep their ads reliable.

I will wait until RefBan matures their ads, then try them again.

I'd say they work fine for me now.. They lagged throughout the day but I think it's because they've been doing stuff on their code again. I've been monitoring it and it's been working fine during the previous days. I display their ads on 2 or 3 of my sites now. Etc. my home page www.ptcbox.me

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How can I get referrals to RefBan if they don't keep their ads showing? I tried social networks. I tried referral link. Referrals are not that easy to get, and since that Aditz don't do referrals. It won't make any difference.

I've got 20 direct referrals, though most of them during the final days before launch and unfortunately they're mostly inactive.
Now it's kinda matured at the places I usually promote but I'm currently promoting other programs as well so I paused it for a while to see how the rest of the team does. I still haven't used my 50.000 impressions I've got when I purchased my pack to become advertiser.

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Re: RefBan.com Officially Launched!
Reply #79 - 14^th Jun, 2013 at 3:31am

I put them back on, but since I am not making any money as of yet. I can't pay for advertising. I have to worry more about getting traffic to site first with targeted traffic, then I have to save the money for the hosting and getting domain transferred, because I can have the domain free with the plan I am using, if I keep using it. So traffic is my main worry now.

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Re: RefBan.com Officially Launched!
Reply #80 - 14^th Jun, 2013 at 10:00am

utahman1971 wrote on 14^th Jun, 2013 at 3:31am:

I put them back on, but since I am not making any money as of yet. I can't pay for advertising. I have to worry more about getting traffic to site first with targeted traffic, then I have to save the money for the hosting and getting domain transferred, because I can have the domain free with the plan I am using, if I keep using it. So traffic is my main worry now.

Well, my guide on free traffic might actually prove useful to you..
Since your site has a lot of content and you update it often google could really help you with targeted traffic.
And also since your site is not about making money online, you could always have a sub-domain or a dedicated section
there about it.. something like a sponsors section where you could put articles on "make money online" sites etc.

By the way, are you a member in other PTCs?

I need some new for advertising purposes so if you can help, please suggest any at this thread.

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dansbanners VIP Member Offline I love being here! Posts: 2026 Gender:	Re: RefBan.com Officially Launched! Reply #81 - 21^st Jun, 2013 at 1:05am Is it $0.05 per day per domain? In another word, could you have the refban banner in two different domains and earn $0.05 each, earning $0.10 daily from it?
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SolidSnake Forum Administrator Offline I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember Posts: 3386 Center of the Universe Gender:	Re: RefBan.com Officially Launched! Reply #82 - 21^st Jun, 2013 at 9:54am I'm afraid not. It's just $0.05 ($0.10 for advertisers) per account. It doesn't matter if you display banners on 1 website or 10 different websites. Anyway, otherwise it wouldn't be stable and would kill the site.
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Re: RefBan.com Officially Launched!
Reply #83 - 21^st Jun, 2013 at 3:39pm

SolidSnake wrote on 21^st Jun, 2013 at 9:54am:

I'm afraid not. It's just $0.05 ($0.10 for advertisers) per account. It doesn't matter if you display banners on 1 website or 10 different websites. Anyway, otherwise it wouldn't be stable and would kill the site.

Is that just an assumption? Have you tried it? Don't forget per domain is not the same as per page. I could see needing to draw the line somewhere with per page. But I don't see why one can't be added to each domain?

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Re: RefBan.com Officially Launched!
Reply #84 - 21^st Jun, 2013 at 4:12pm

It really looks like more sites don't earn more. At least directly.
In the guide page:

"Even if you don't have many visitors, you'll still earn the base rate for every day that you display banners. If you generate more genuine impressions with a busier site, or multiple sites, you'll refer more members and will earn more. This makes our system fair for everyone."

So the benefit of having multiple sites with banners is only to refer more members.

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Re: RefBan.com Officially Launched!
Reply #85 - 21^st Jun, 2013 at 5:57pm

dansbanners wrote on 21^st Jun, 2013 at 3:39pm:

Is that just an assumption? Have you tried it?

No it's not.. and actually yes I've tested it, I'm displaying my banner space on more than 1 different sites of mine but the rate is still the same.
That's why I offered to host a banner for someone else on one of my sites if they don't have one themselves..
so that they get a fair chance too. Etc, I host ruicarlov's banners on a blog of mine.

@ruicarlov - By the way, how many impressions have your received so far there? Check the publish page on refban and let me know.

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Note: I'll be kind of away for the weekend so I won't be as active as normal. But I'll get online at least once per day.

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dansbanners VIP Member Offline I love being here! Posts: 2026 Gender:	Re: RefBan.com Officially Launched! Reply #86 - 29^th Jun, 2013 at 2:43pm I now currently have 3 active members in my downline.
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Re: RefBan.com Officially Launched!
Reply #87 - 29^th Jun, 2013 at 4:07pm

dansbanners wrote on 29^th Jun, 2013 at 2:43pm:

I now currently have 3 active members in my downline.

Yep, and here's a complete overview on our RefBan downline :

It has been pretty easy for me to get refs for refban but the overall activity of them is pretty low.
However it has cost me close to nothing (~$5) to get them so it's still fine..

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dansbanners VIP Member Offline I love being here! Posts: 2026 Gender:	Re: RefBan.com Officially Launched! Reply #88 - 8^th Jul, 2013 at 1:19pm It's now 4 active referrals for me.
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dansbanners VIP Member Offline I love being here! Posts: 2026 Gender:	Re: RefBan.com Officially Launched! Reply #89 - 8^th Jul, 2013 at 10:12pm Does it have to be 2 sales within a time span? Like within a year or something? Or it could be anytime?
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