Hi,
Let me first make it clear that I have been with DS for over 2 months and I am quite satisfied. My portfolio daily revenue fluctuates generally 50% above or below the average (which sometimes scare me), but I am happy with the overall average and kind of hoping that it will keep going up with DS optimization and system improvements in future.
Today was a kind of un-usually slow day for 'visitors (both US and non-US)' as well as 'revenue' and I kind of kept wondering why is it it so when its not even a holiday here in USA.
I just logged into my DS account and saw this announcement which kind of scared me because now I am thinking may be my visitors/revenue was slow today because of these new changes? I hope I am wrong but still I can't help wonder if it is so.
My traffic quality is very high: 70% is US traffic, 10% is Canadian, 10% European, 5% SouthAmerica, and may be rest 5% is from Asia.
Please take a look at the announcement below and let me know what they mean by this whole thing. I think they may just filter out your non-USA traffic to most extent and it may reduce our revenue by 10-15% (in my case as I don't have too much non-USA traffic) or may be by a higher % if you have high % of non-USA traffic.
But again, I may be just reading too much in to it. So please express what you think of this announcement and if you think it is going to reduce your revenue:
ANNOUNCEMENT:
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December 9, 2004
New DomainSponsor Landing Pages
As many of you can attest by the revenue increases you have seen over this past year, we are unwaveringly committed to providing the highest revenues and payouts in the industry. This has always been, and continues to be our main focus and dedication of resources. This is necessary as both a proactive measure to reward our publishers and as a reactive measure toward performance measurements being implemented across the industry. Most recently, our upstream partners have been tightening standards and increasing measure of traffic quality. As a response to this, (as many of you may have noticed), as of 12:00pm today, we have been testing some new landing page designs.
The effects of this testing may not be evident in the short term, but the long term effects will be invaluable.
What this means to you
You should not see your overall revenues affected by these changes. In the long run, by increasing traffic quality, we will be able to leverage higher click values from our ppc partners which will be passed onto you, resulting in increased revenues. In addition, we can encourage growth in our industry by encouraging new advertisers into the ppc space and more competitive bidding by existing advertisers.
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Thanks for all the opinions.
PS: Can anyone provide a sample of new landing page designs?
Regards,
Let me first make it clear that I have been with DS for over 2 months and I am quite satisfied. My portfolio daily revenue fluctuates generally 50% above or below the average (which sometimes scare me), but I am happy with the overall average and kind of hoping that it will keep going up with DS optimization and system improvements in future.
Today was a kind of un-usually slow day for 'visitors (both US and non-US)' as well as 'revenue' and I kind of kept wondering why is it it so when its not even a holiday here in USA.
I just logged into my DS account and saw this announcement which kind of scared me because now I am thinking may be my visitors/revenue was slow today because of these new changes? I hope I am wrong but still I can't help wonder if it is so.
My traffic quality is very high: 70% is US traffic, 10% is Canadian, 10% European, 5% SouthAmerica, and may be rest 5% is from Asia.
Please take a look at the announcement below and let me know what they mean by this whole thing. I think they may just filter out your non-USA traffic to most extent and it may reduce our revenue by 10-15% (in my case as I don't have too much non-USA traffic) or may be by a higher % if you have high % of non-USA traffic.
But again, I may be just reading too much in to it. So please express what you think of this announcement and if you think it is going to reduce your revenue:
ANNOUNCEMENT:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
December 9, 2004
New DomainSponsor Landing Pages
As many of you can attest by the revenue increases you have seen over this past year, we are unwaveringly committed to providing the highest revenues and payouts in the industry. This has always been, and continues to be our main focus and dedication of resources. This is necessary as both a proactive measure to reward our publishers and as a reactive measure toward performance measurements being implemented across the industry. Most recently, our upstream partners have been tightening standards and increasing measure of traffic quality. As a response to this, (as many of you may have noticed), as of 12:00pm today, we have been testing some new landing page designs.
The effects of this testing may not be evident in the short term, but the long term effects will be invaluable.
What this means to you
You should not see your overall revenues affected by these changes. In the long run, by increasing traffic quality, we will be able to leverage higher click values from our ppc partners which will be passed onto you, resulting in increased revenues. In addition, we can encourage growth in our industry by encouraging new advertisers into the ppc space and more competitive bidding by existing advertisers.
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Thanks for all the opinions.
PS: Can anyone provide a sample of new landing page designs?
Regards,
