Simple modification made the difference!

Mollowbass said:
.......My instructions were:

To enable the download button, please click on one of the ads...........
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I know Adbrite are a little more relaxed than Adsense but are you sure they will allow this?

Also, why bother with the delay? What difference does it make? Surely it's the instruction to your visitors to click the ad that is earning the money, not the 15 second delay?
 
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aj113 said:
I know Adbrite are a little more relaxed than Adsense but are you sure they will allow this?

Also, why bother with the delay? What difference does it make? Surely it's the instruction to your visitors to click the ad that is earning the money, not the 15 second delay?
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because they will try and click the download link before an advert most of the time
so if it doesnt work they think "ok ill click an advert" then it magically works,
altho really if they had just waited a minuted and clicked it would've worked too
 
I'm amazed at the number of dumb responses in this thread... what he did was simple, but effective.

He disabled the download button for 15 seconds so people had nothing to click. He then told them they had to click the ads to get the download, like an incentive. They did so, and 15 seconds later the download unlocked, which probably made them believe clicking the ads worked! However, if adbrite finds out about this they will definitely disable your account, but the question is if they will find out or not.

This is pretty simple javascript for those asking how to do it. Have a function that waits 15 seconds, then changes the inner HTML of the div area where the download link should be to have the download button. You should probably run this asynchronously through setTimeout for better performance :)
 
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aj113 said:
I know Adbrite are a little more relaxed than Adsense but are you sure they will allow this?

Also, why bother with the delay? What difference does it make? Surely it's the instruction to your visitors to click the ad that is earning the money, not the 15 second delay?
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of course adbrite will not allow this if they find out about it... it is click fraud. if they visit his webpage and see that his account will go bye-bye.

the timer delay is very smart, people see they can't click 'download' and when they are told it won't be clickable until they click an ad... well, they are going to click an ad.


Question: What is the PPC that adbrite is giving you? From what i hear they pay out very low compared to adsense.
 
Simple but effective...nice work. Just be careful where you place the "to enable the download, click an ad" instructions if it's on the same page as the ads and adbriiite clicks back to the referer of the click and see it, they're probably not going to like the fact that you're incenting clicks.
 
Yeah its fairly simple, it breaks the rules of "will not have an incentives to click the adverts" though

I dunno about adbrite but if your only pulling in $30 a day from it, i doubt they are going to come check up on you, i always get emails from them complaining that im not making enough :P
 
If you want to cover this up do this:

Have two download pages - download.php and download2.php

In download.php have a completely WH download page that looks IDENTICAL to download2.php, but the line "Click an ad to download" isn't there.

In download2.php, create a frame that shows just the ads on download.php, and has the same 15 second js code that you have now. So when people click the ad on your BH download2.php page, the referer will be download.php. When adbrite goes and checks it they see a normal, legit download page and will probably not realize it :)
 
I think the real trick to this method is getting people to click it without saying "click an ad"
 
adverts still not showing up so i have a while to think of the best way to get this to work without breaking any rules directly
 
i still need some kind of addition to my script that would make the link greyed out before it becomes enabled, and then goes blue or whatever after the time out

<a href="javascript:linkTo('address.html');" id="closeme">Link</a><BR>
<script type="text/javascript">
var delay = 20; //change this value to the number of seconds you want.
var canLink = false;
function enableLinks(){
canLink = true;
}
function linkTo(url){
if (canLink) {
window.location=url;
}
}
window.onload = function(){
window.setTimeout("enableLinks()", delay * 1000)
};
</script>
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dont know if we can post code
 
Xyon81 said:
I think the real trick to this method is getting people to click it without saying "click an ad"
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Agreed. As it stands it's going to fail as soon as Adbrite sees it.

At the very least, you could remove the instruction to click an ad before downloading, and reinstate the instruction as a pop-up that is triggered by clicking the download button. At least that way any (Adbrite) visitors to your site would not see any issues unless they actually clicked the download button.
 
aj113 said:
Agreed. As it stands it's going to fail as soon as Adbrite sees it.

At the very least, you could remove the instruction to click an ad before downloading, and reinstate the instruction as a pop-up that is triggered by clicking the download button. At least that way any (Adbrite) visitors to your site would not see any issues unless they actually clicked the download button.
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and there we go! thats more like it,

click a download, it comes up with a small overlay (dont wanna get pop up blocked) "please click one advert to enable this" they click - link becomes active.

noone sees anything unless adbrite go and try and download all your files

bish bash bosh etc
 
How about when they click the Download button, they go to an ad page, with the REAL Download button? Would that get you banned?
 
i ended up making a version of this, it totally works, made like a few $ a day from it which is better than the usual 1c i was making
 
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