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Morrus 08-19-2011 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dominic K (Post 2234847)
Ran the CAPTCHA's for a day and I'm reporting back as promised.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/08/46.png

As you can see, there is some money to be made. I have large boards, likely to be larger than the average VB.org user, and I can't help but feel if you installed this mod on a smaller board expecting to make some money you'd be extremely disappointed. I for one, am going to leave this modification installed and try and grab and snapshot of the bigger picture - eCPM may improve over time.

At this rate, it'll take a couple of months to receive a payout.

$3.12 for a day? How large is your board? Just trying to get a comparison to mine to estimate what sort of revenue I'd be looking at. At $3.12 per day, it's not even worth downloading the file. :)

Booyakan 08-19-2011 08:04 PM

I ran this for 6 days and made like 85 cents for 150 type ins. That's 150 ads people looked at for 85 cents? Nice product, just too little revenue for me. Uninstalled :(

Dominic K 08-19-2011 08:28 PM

3 days in now. Just so you can gauge the eCPM and revenue you may expect to make:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/08/45.png

Quote:

Originally Posted by Morrus (Post 2235355)
$3.12 for a day? How large is your board? Just trying to get a comparison to mine to estimate what sort of revenue I'd be looking at. At $3.12 per day, it's not even worth downloading the file. :)

Well, my boards are fairly active (around 2500~ users online at all time - guests and members). Receiving around 20K uniques a day at the moment. You can say it's not worth the download for $3-$5 a day but that's $3-$5 a day you would be missing out on, no catch, purely out of laziness - people will be filing in those captcha's wether you're running this mod or not.

I've seen lower bot registration rates with this also.

I'm contemplating taking this network wide. That's around $10 a day I wasn't receiving before at no extra hassle.

Morrus 08-19-2011 08:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dominic K (Post 2235527)
3 days in now. Just so you can gauge the eCPM and revenue you may expect to make:

That doesn't help much, because I don't know how many impressions of this particular ad this software will serve on my board. Is it one per new registration?

If you could give me an idea of the size of your board, I can just divide accordingly and plug in the size of my own board as a comparison. If your board is twice the size of mine, I can halve those figures as an estimate; if it's half the size, I can double them.

[Edit - simulpost! Similar sized board, it seems, so my figures would be roughly the same. You're 3 days in and have made $8, so we're looking at just over $2 per day or $60 per month. Not worth it to me - YMMV of course.]

Dominic K 08-19-2011 08:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Morrus (Post 2235529)
That doesn't help much, because I don't know how many impressions of this particular ad this software will serve on my board. Is it one per new registration?

If you could give me an idea of the size of your board, I can just divide accordingly and plug in the size of my own board as a comparison. If your board is twice the size of mine, I can halve those figures as an estimate; if it's half the size, I can double them.

[Edit - simulpost! Similar sized board, it seems, so my figures would be roughly the same. You're 3 days in and have made $8, so we're looking at just over $2 per day or $60 per month. Not worth it to me - YMMV of course.]

Have you considered running the modification on a test period and scaling the results?

I do not wish to disclose the URL of my board and as a forum administrator I am sure you understand that you can't use two boards, run by separate administrators, comparatively in this context. It depends on the following factors and of course a lot more:

- Where do you display CAPTCHAs?
- To what extent do you force registration?
For example, one site on my network revolves around downloads and requires user registrations to access content.
- Traffic, daily registrations, searches (if enabled on search) blah blah blah.


In regards to your second post, I have a much larger network, I stated in my first post I was running a trial on a sample of boards. It seems you're not even seeing the point of the this mod, you're gaining albeit pennies for a task users are compelled and willing to undertake anyway. You won't catch me checking my daily earnings with this mod, more sit back and receive a little pocket money every month; you can't complain.

TheLastSuperman 09-13-2011 06:25 PM

Just a quick note to say that, if you have used IMPEX in the past to import your board from another software into vBulletin please be careful when using this or install on a test site first and ensure it functions properly. I had to fix quite a large forum last night who's password reset and entry was not functioning properly at all, the only modification installed was this therefor I knew it had to be the culprit, well that and the fact the lost password and actual entry of the password started acting up immediately after install.

I disabled the mod, even via config disabling all of them yet the Solve Media still showed during registration and without being able to login via admincp due to the mod, it was quite the task removing it from everywhere in the database including the datastore and more etc.

You have been warned impex users ;).

onealien 09-14-2011 05:21 AM

looks cool...free money is gud money...will post feedback after installed for a week or so...

thanks

|Jordan| 01-12-2012 05:20 AM

How effective is this at stopping spammers and other undesirables from signing up on your forum? It is it as or more effective as Recaptcha?

solvemedia 02-22-2012 05:30 PM

Version 1.0.5 of the mod is now available.

connkid25 05-19-2012 10:00 AM

I remember using this before and it played video. That stopped. Even on revenue settings, it only gives out a standard captcha. How do you make money from that? When will it play the videos again like it does on your direct site?


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