Add-On Releases - Solve Media CAPTCHA - Protect & Monetize your Forum

Please remember to click Mark as Installed if you use this modification.

Description
Secure and monetize your vBulletin forum with Solve Media's free CAPTCHA replacement. Use Solve Media's free CAPTCHA solution and earn money from CAPTCHA. Solve Media has created a patent-pending technology that turns CAPTCHA into a branded TYPE-INs?. Every time a visitor to your site enters a CAPTCHA brand message, we share the revenue with you. Users are easily frustrated by traditional CAPTCHA. Solve Media CAPTCHA TYPE-IN? ads are easy to read, easy to complete and reinforce messages that are easy to remember. For visually impaired users, the Solve Media CAPTCHA widget offers an audio CAPTCHA puzzle.

Read about Solve Media in the Wall Street Journal.

Installation

1. Download and unzip the vB-solvemedia3_7-3_8.zip archive.
2. Upload solvemedialib.php and class_humanverify_solvemedia.php to your /includes/ directory.
3. Import product-solvemedia.xml via the Product Manager.
4. Register for a Solve Media account at http://portal.solvemedia.com/portal/public/signup and obtain a set of API keys
5. Change the Human Verification Library to Solve Media via AdminCP > Human Verification Manager.
6. Set your API keys and make any desired configuration changes via the Solve Media Options.

Version History

• 1.0.5 - Bugfix
• 1.0.4 - Uses vBulletin's template system. Bugfixes.
• 1.0.3 - Added language option and support for HTTPS sites
• 1.0.2 - Initial Release

[Morrus]

Originally Posted by Dominic K

Ran the CAPTCHA's for a day and I'm reporting back as promised.



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]

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]

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

Originally Posted by Morrus

$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]

Originally Posted by Dominic K

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]

Originally Posted by Morrus

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]

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]

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

thanks

[|Jordan|]

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]

Version 1.0.5 of the mod is now available.

[connkid25]

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?