March 26th, 2013, 02:29 PM | #1 |
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Added Affiliate Links - VigLink
Howdy -
I set up a small plug-in to create affiliate links for those links posted here that go out to online stores. It shouldn't affect much of anything in the user experience here, but I posted it up so people could be aware if something was working weirdly, and hopefully post reports here. The way it works is if anyone puts a link up to somewhere ebay, Amazon, Apple, or a whole pile of other sites, the outbound link (the moment you click it) gets a unique code appended to it saying that it came from ninjette.org. The affiliate program on that site says "a-ha, that click came from those good folks over at ninjette.org!", and they pay Viglink a (very small) amount of money for that traffic to get to their site, and a slightly larger amount of money if you end up buying something from that site. Viglink keeps a portion of that money as a service fee, and hands over the rest to this site. Some websites are evidently making multiples of what their adsense revenues are. On other sites, not so much. We'll see how it goes. The hope and expectation is that this is completely transparent, and doesn't affect anyone's usage of this site. What it does allow is for the site to make a bit more $ without adding any additional visible advertising, which I'm quite conscious of being annoying on many websites. I chose viglinks over skimlinks based on a bunch of online reviews, and I'll see how it goes for a few weeks. - Alex
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March 26th, 2013, 02:49 PM | #3 |
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March 30th, 2013, 08:02 AM | #5 |
ninjette.org dude
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I added two new subforums in the marketplace area today, to try and support this affiliate process a bit. The subforums pull in an automated feed from eBay for ninja 300 and ninja 250 items. I set a minimum price for items at $25. The postings in those subforums do not show up in the unread posts count, or in the unanswered threads searches; they are excluded just like the moto-news automated posts are excluded. Hopefully this keeps it from being overly obnoxious to those who couldn't care less, but for those who do choose to browse those subforums, it's a quick way to see some relevant items. Let's see how it goes...
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April 1st, 2013, 03:42 PM | #6 |
Jigglin' your Jiglets
Name: Sean
Location: San Jose, Ca
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Here's the annoying thing though
sears bikes is that intended?
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April 1st, 2013, 03:43 PM | #7 |
Jigglin' your Jiglets
Name: Sean
Location: San Jose, Ca
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It turns regular words into hyperlinks, thats supposed to happen?
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April 1st, 2013, 03:45 PM | #8 |
The Corner Whisperer
Name: Chris (aka Reactor)
Location: Northern KY
Join Date: May 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2010 250 (track), 1992 250, 2006 R6 (street/track), 2008 R6 (track) Posts: Too much.
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I see no hyperlinks that are out of place. You must have a toolbar or malware yo. Scan your stuff STAT!
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April 1st, 2013, 03:48 PM | #9 |
Jigglin' your Jiglets
Name: Sean
Location: San Jose, Ca
Join Date: Jun 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2009 K1300S, 2013 Ninja 300, 2011 Ninja 250R, Faster than Unregistered's ninjette Posts: Too much.
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April 1st, 2013, 03:51 PM | #10 |
ninjette.org sage
Name: Andy
Location: Indianapolis
Join Date: Aug 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2008 Kawasaki Ninja 250R Posts: 771
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April 1st, 2013, 03:52 PM | #11 |
Jigglin' your Jiglets
Name: Sean
Location: San Jose, Ca
Join Date: Jun 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2009 K1300S, 2013 Ninja 300, 2011 Ninja 250R, Faster than Unregistered's ninjette Posts: Too much.
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and if I did?
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April 1st, 2013, 03:53 PM | #12 |
The Corner Whisperer
Name: Chris (aka Reactor)
Location: Northern KY
Join Date: May 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2010 250 (track), 1992 250, 2006 R6 (street/track), 2008 R6 (track) Posts: Too much.
MOTY 2015, MOTM - Nov '12, Nov '13
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April 1st, 2013, 03:53 PM | #13 |
ninjette.org sage
Name: Andy
Location: Indianapolis
Join Date: Aug 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2008 Kawasaki Ninja 250R Posts: 771
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I would have asked for a link.
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April 1st, 2013, 03:53 PM | #14 |
Jigglin' your Jiglets
Name: Sean
Location: San Jose, Ca
Join Date: Jun 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2009 K1300S, 2013 Ninja 300, 2011 Ninja 250R, Faster than Unregistered's ninjette Posts: Too much.
Blog Entries: 1
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spankwire
Lots of top notch gay porn, you'd love it
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April 1st, 2013, 03:54 PM | #15 |
ninjette.org sage
Name: Andy
Location: Indianapolis
Join Date: Aug 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2008 Kawasaki Ninja 250R Posts: 771
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Seen better; Seen worse.
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April 1st, 2013, 03:56 PM | #16 |
ninjette.org dude
Name: 1 guess :-)
Location: SF Bay Area
Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much.
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It adds info to existing links. It can also create links where none existed before. Those two capabilities are separate, and we don't have to do both. Right now both of those are enabled. As of now, 90%+ of the revenue is coming from the existing links rather than the created ones, so if that holds long-term I'd consider disabling that second part of the functionality.
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April 1st, 2013, 04:00 PM | #17 |
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I don't like it, simply because I believe somebody has added a hyperlink to their post and it's not by them and there is no way to tell so it feels like a deceptive way of trying to sell something by passing it off as something somebody intended to put in their post.
It feels a bit like a violation of what I am posting also. But hey, if it's a good revenue stream then I have no objections, babys gotta eat! |
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April 1st, 2013, 04:00 PM | #18 | |
Jigglin' your Jiglets
Name: Sean
Location: San Jose, Ca
Join Date: Jun 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2009 K1300S, 2013 Ninja 300, 2011 Ninja 250R, Faster than Unregistered's ninjette Posts: Too much.
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Quote:
It doesn't show it in the quote but check his original post
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April 1st, 2013, 04:07 PM | #20 | |
ninjette.org dude
Name: 1 guess :-)
Location: SF Bay Area
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Quote:
Yes - I can see how some of those seem out of place and not terribly helpful.
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April 1st, 2013, 04:12 PM | #21 |
Bass Master General
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April 1st, 2013, 04:14 PM | #22 |
ninjette.org dude
Name: 1 guess :-)
Location: SF Bay Area
Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much.
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Ah - got it. I would have just blamed Motofool.
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April 1st, 2013, 04:21 PM | #23 |
ninjette.org sage
Name: Andy
Location: Indianapolis
Join Date: Aug 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2008 Kawasaki Ninja 250R Posts: 771
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Well that does it. Thanks to VigLink, Ninjette is effed.
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April 1st, 2013, 04:24 PM | #24 |
ninjette.org dude
Name: 1 guess :-)
Location: SF Bay Area
Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much.
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That was all it took? I could have effed it up much quicker and easier if I had put my back into it.
Let's give it a week or two and I'll have the necessary data to decide the level of annoying I'm willing to foist on users. If it's pointless, I'll kill it. I think it's less annoying than plastering all of the white space of the page with picture ads, which is why there are so few ad banners on this site. (and an easy setting in people's user control panel to even disable those if people so choose)
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April 1st, 2013, 04:26 PM | #25 | |
ninjette.org sage
Name: Andy
Location: Indianapolis
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April 1st, 2013, 04:27 PM | #26 |
ninjette.org dude
Name: 1 guess :-)
Location: SF Bay Area
Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much.
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April 1st, 2013, 04:37 PM | #28 |
Jigglin' your Jiglets
Name: Sean
Location: San Jose, Ca
Join Date: Jun 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2009 K1300S, 2013 Ninja 300, 2011 Ninja 250R, Faster than Unregistered's ninjette Posts: Too much.
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Stop googling cigarettes then
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April 2nd, 2013, 09:25 PM | #29 |
ninjette.org certified postwhore
Name: .
Location: .
Join Date: Feb 2011 Motorcycle(s): . Posts: Too much.
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I'm finding all these random linky things to be annoying.
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April 2nd, 2013, 09:31 PM | #30 |
Jigglin' your Jiglets
Name: Sean
Location: San Jose, Ca
Join Date: Jun 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2009 K1300S, 2013 Ninja 300, 2011 Ninja 250R, Faster than Unregistered's ninjette Posts: Too much.
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There should be a donation button instead
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April 2nd, 2013, 09:34 PM | #31 |
ninjette.org dude
Name: 1 guess :-)
Location: SF Bay Area
Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much.
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I looked at the stats as of today. The auto-inserted links were adding about 3% of the revenue (tiny), and the automated linking for existing links was making up the remainder. With that in mind, I turned off the auto-inserted links.
For the ones that have been added already, they might not be removed. But it shouldn't add any new ones going forward.
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April 2nd, 2013, 09:47 PM | #32 |
ninjette.org certified postwhore
Name: Hansveer
Location: Bombay, India
Join Date: Jan 2012 Motorcycle(s): Ninja 250r - Track whore, Ninja 300 - SOLD, KTM RC390 - Orange Hulk, Ducati 899 Panigale - Red Devil. Posts: A lot.
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If you make more money, it can't be a bad thing... lol Good Luck!!!
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April 12th, 2013, 04:59 AM | #33 |
ninjette.org dude
Name: 1 guess :-)
Location: SF Bay Area
Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much.
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I was a bit tardy in updating the terms of service / privacy policy based on adding this to the site. I've remedied that today (link to TOS on my sig, or at the bottom of every page). In the TOS, there are now direct links to opt-out of the ad programs on the site. There remains a switch in the user control panel to directly turn off the banner ads as well.
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April 12th, 2013, 09:40 AM | #34 |
ninjette.org sage
Name: Bob
Location: NY
Join Date: Jul 2012 Motorcycle(s): 2010 Ninja 250 2009 Ninja 250 Posts: 730
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Is very common among forums. If you own a grandprix, clubgp has been doing this for years now.
I see no problem at all
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