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[BuffaloHelp]

The better suggestion would be for those who do not want to collect Kontera's ad money, those who cannot earn enough to collect and goes to waste, or those who would want to donate/contribute to Trap17 forum can use Xisto's Kontera's account number in their Kontera account box.

This way, when they post every little bit of it goes towards Xisto. And when enough people collect and contribute Xisto can benefit/profit from trickling collection.

For those who would like to take advantage of this new suggestion, simply contact OpaQue directly and request for his account number. Unless this is also against TOS of Kontera OpaQue would like the idea. I don't think it's against their TOS because when a member does not have Kontera it defaults to Xisto's account--unless this too was changed recently.

[anwiii]

actually, EXACTLY. that would perform the same thing i was talking about. and i think you were the only one who got it. so then either way should be implimented so if it's done with your suggestion, i would suggest under the directions of how to set up a kontera account, this might be suggested in there with the account id. i would definately be one to do this because. i absolutely hate wasted money like a vengence. but there are people who use kontera on other sites who can in fact get paid off in a year. this wouldn't be for them....but it would for the majority of users

also, with my research, i know that kontera is open to negotiations if it's a website with high traffic. they don't want to lose the business so they are willing to pay more. in some cases, double what they are paying now. like i said before $2 for almost 5,000 impressions is ridiculously low. i am wondering what other people are being paid through trap only on impression(their cpm)

BuffaloHelp, on Mar 26 2010, 11:52 PM, said:

The better suggestion would be for those who do not want to collect Kontera's ad money, those who cannot earn enough to collect and goes to waste, or those who would want to donate/contribute to Trap17 forum can use Xisto's Kontera's account number in their Kontera account box.

This way, when they post every little bit of it goes towards Xisto. And when enough people collect and contribute Xisto can benefit/profit from trickling collection.

For those who would like to take advantage of this new suggestion, simply contact OpaQue directly and request for his account number. Unless this is also against TOS of Kontera OpaQue would like the idea. I don't think it's against their TOS because when a member does not have Kontera it defaults to Xisto's account--unless this too was changed recently.

[webishqiptar]

I agree. Great idea from anwii. I think that trap forums should not share revenue with members. So all money generated would go to a trap account on kontera which gathers all clicks from all forums, so that this money than can be used to make hosting accounts cheaper for trap users. Good idea. If it can be realized it would be great.

[Saint_Michael]

Well if you want some stats, I can provide some.

Since January of this year till now, I have earn a total of 30,472 impressions, with 564 clicks, I won't mention the dollar amount but your reason of thought is correct. Granted I got kontera added in several of my websites, however, a great chunk of them are coming Trap17. Yeah the money isn't great but because of how random your link shows up on Trap17 it takes even longer to build and posts do affect the frequency of your link showing up, but if you want to earn from Kontera you need to run it on your own website and produce a lot of kontera to help balance it out.

Now from what buff suggested Xisto would hit that $100 treshhold quickly, of course you first have to do several things, ask the user if they want to do this and see if Kontera allows such a thing to happen.

[anwiii]

that's why i suggested it. it would be GREAT for new users and even some old users. it would enable the logic plan to be free or a combination of the plans to be lowered. and if opaque is creative enough, he can actually offer domains for free because of the extra income. maybe free domains after already been hosting for a year or free domains as long as you have 100-200 posts for the year or so. who knows.....

there are a lot of advantages to create the perfect plans with no ad sharing but there is 1 HUGE disadvantage to it. if hosting is actually free, then people would post less and ad revenues would be as much. BUT! if one gets a little creative, it can work well and drive large amounts of traffic and increase the active membership. so as an example, if we currectly had 20 people posting 5 posts a day for 100 posts we could compare that to 100 people posting only 1 post a day. so even though the post counts per person is lower, we still recieve the same amount of posts or even MORE if done right.

but i don't really look at it as taking away ad sharing. instead of the forum sharing ad revenue with the members, it's the members sharing revenue with the admin(when they aren't going to cash out anyway and money is being WASTED) to make this place more new user friendly.