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Traffic, payment and administration
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There are several possible explanations:
1. Blogads on
every page. Make sure you have the Blogads javascript on
every page of your site. Archives, individual posts, pages with
comments... everything. We can give you credit only for the pages that
include the javascript code.
2. Spiders and
robots. The Blogads server counts the page views by
displaying a 1 pixel by 1 pixel invisible image on your blog, along
with the javascripts. This may differ slightly from your own
statistics, as spiders and search engine bots do not read javascripts.
This can account for a difference of roughly 10%. Also, note that
the number of page views on Blogads pages is updated once a day.
3. RSS.
We also do not count traffic to your RSS feed, since feeds do not carry
blogads. This can account for another 20% difference on some
blogs.
4. Traffic
measurement. If these reasons do not explain the
difference, please install these two free statistics generators on your
site for comparison: Sitemeter
and
Statcounter.
They are simple to use and require little
effort to install into your html code. Other statistics report
generator programs may or may not identify the page views amongst the
page hits accurately. This is caused by endless possibilities that the
url's included in the page can have. For example, certain statistics
generators may think that any hit for .php scripts counts as a page
view, while some of the .php scripts serve images to be displayed on
the page instead.
Another option is to check the page views based on the number of requests
to a page logo (normally a .gif or image file related to the main
heading of the blog site), as this is normally displayed on
every page of the blog. This .gif image has a unique url. Take the
www.blogads.com image url as an example: http://web.blogads.com/blogads3_logo.gif.
You can check how many
hits there are to this url every day and how it compares to the number
of page views reported by Blogads.
5. Still unsure?
Contact us. If you've taken all of the above into consideration and
still feel that there is a discrepancy, please send your raw access
data logs to "blog-tech (at) blogads.com" and we will investigate. But
please
do this only once you've run through points 1-4.
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The ad statistics are updated on the hour from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. (Eastern time).
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Once you've logged in to your Blogads account, click "My Account" on the left-hand side. You will see the PayPal address field on this page.
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To lessen the risk of chargebacks, we PayPal within 15 days after the end of the month in which an advertiser pays for an ad, if your balance exceeds $75. We'll also sweep all accounts clean at the end of the year. Make sure we've got your PayPal address and w9 information in your "my account" page and we'll close you out in our next bout of payouts.
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You cannot. You can, though, use your normal Blogads account to buy ads, but you will need to pay for them separately.
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When you receive the new ad submission notification, it states whether the ad has been bought on credit or not.
Typically these ads get paid 30-60 days after their run. The payment date info is now included in Waiting For Approval notification email. For more info on the payment status of your ads, see this FAQ item.
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The total amount due to you for unpaid ads is listed in the last row of the "Due payments" table on top of your Accounting page. There is a little question mark in the Unpaid ads row. When you click on it, you will go to the Due payments page. This page lists all the ads that we have not paid to you, grouped by expected payout date. The bottom section of this page lists the ads that have not yet been paid for by advertisers. Because we cannot pay you for such ads, this section is called "Payments not yet due." The original payout date for each ad is listed in the row of the ad. This is the 15th of the month following the activation of the ad - i.e. the date on which you would have gotten paid, had these ads not been bought on credit. The reason we are including this original payout date is to enable you to see how much you've sold in each month.
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This is displayed in the first row of the "Due payments" table, on top of your Accounting page.
We can only pay you for ads that have been paid for. While we require
upfront payment from most advertisers, many agencies can only pay after
they have been invoiced. For large orders of repeat customers we extend
payment terms of 15-60 days from the date ads begin running. The silver
lining in this delay: there is no credit card fee for these
payments, which are settled by check or wire transfer. Once payment is
received for an "Unpaid ad" it will be removed and added into the next
valid payment date on the "Due Payments" page. For more info on the Due
Payments page,
see this FAQ
item.
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If this payment would have pushed you over $600 in calendar year revenues from blogads, we require a w9 form from you before we can process payment. You will find the link to the form on the "My Account" page. We can only pay you for ads for which we've received payment. While we require upfront payment from most advertisers, many agencies can only pay after they have been invoiced. For large orders of repeat customers we extend payment terms of 15-60 days from the date ads begin running. The silver lining in this delay: there's no credit card fee for these payments, which are settled by check or wire transfer. You can see the payment status of each of your ads on the Accounting screen within your Blogads account, under "Payment date."
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While you're below the $75 monthly payment threshold, the system will predict a payout for next February. No matter how little money we owe you, we'll pay you within 60 days of the end of the year. If you pass the $75 payment threshold, the payout date on your accounting screen will come forward to the 15th of the next month.
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The threshold for check payment is $750. If you'd rather wait until you have $750 in your account, tick the "Check" radio button on the My Account page. Remove your PayPal address and insert your mailing address in the appropriate field on this page. If the check needs to made out to a name different from the name of the account, please include the recipient's name in the Address field.
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Your new prices take effect immediately. However, the ad you have just received was part of a proposal that we at Blogads created for an advertiser before you revised your prices. Because larger advertisers as well as those working via agencies need some time to approve a proposal, prices in proposals are frozen for a month. It is, of course, your choice whether you reject this ad or accept it at the old price.
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Please click here,
to visit our Service Fees page, which displays fees applicable to bloggers
joining the Blogads network. Blogads charges bloggers who joined us before May 2005 20% of an ad's purchase price. Bloggers who joined later are charged 30%, five percentage points of which is remitted to the blogger who sponsored him or her. When purchases are made through a hive order form, Blogads pays five percentage points of its fee to the blogger who is that hive's administrator.
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Different payment channels have different fees. There's no fee when we get paid directly, as happens 1 in 5 times (or so). PayPal's fee varies a little depending on transaction size, Worldpay charges another set of fees on another sliding scale, and Amex charges something else. So basically, there's an infinite variation in these fees.
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If you are logged into your account click on the "Logins" link on the left nav bar. Here you will be able to create a new login by clicking on the "Add new" button.
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Yes. Click on the "Logins" link in your nav bar and then on the "Add new" button. You can specify the new email address and the password on the following page.
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Once you've logged in, click on the "Logins" item in the nav bar. This will show you the current email address. Hit "Add new" and then specify the email address you'd like along with the password. Once you've created this new ID and logged in using the new email address, the system will give you the option to delete the old one on the main Logins page.
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Log in to your account. Now click the "Logins" link in the left nav bar. You'll first need to add in a new login email address before you can remove your non valid email address. Please refer to the following link here about adding a new email address. Once you've added the new email address, logout of your account and log back in with the new email address you just created. Now go back to the "Logins" page in your account. You'll now see you have two email addresses. Tag the email address you need to delete and click the "Delete" button. The old email address is now removed.
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Through Dec. 31, 2006, we sent 1099 forms only to bloggers whose sponsorship revenues passed $600 in the calendar year. We will, however, send a 1099 to U.S. resident individuals (and partnerships), who earned more than $600 in the calendar year. For this reason, we require anyone approaching $600 in revenues to fill out a w9 form (Americans citizens or residents) or a w8 form (everyone else). The link to the form is on your My Account page.
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The IRS (=U.S. tax office) requires us to collect information on non-American payment recipients as well. If on the W9 page, you indicate that you are not citizen or resident of the United States, you will have to fill out a W8 form.
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