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Why the limitations on IPs?

mandy1
I don't understand the limitations on IPs. Although it is nice to at least make a little money on duplicate IPs, why are IPs counted only if a particular IP isn't in the database of the ENTIRE adfocus database?

Some people have many adfoc.us links on their sites and if a unique visitor decides to check out many of those links, we don't get paid past a certain point. For instance, if you have a number of links to photos posted on your site and all those links are adfocus links and a visitor decides to check out let's say 15 photos (links), we would only get paid for the first 4 photos they look at.

Or what about if a particular internet user has visited many adfocus links in a day and then comes across one of yours and visits it. You won't get paid because their IP has already been counted for the 4 times allowed across the entire network. How fair is that? That doesn't make sense.

Why is this limitation in place? I understand the idea of wanting to prevent abuse, but I would think it would make more sense to have the IP be limited to how often that IP is seen on a particular adfocus link or at least how often it is seen under any individual account. To make the IP limit across the entire adfocus network seems too strict.

Please revisit this and take this into consideration. You can still prevent abuse this way, yet give the legitamate people an opportunity to make more money. And the more adfocus members make, the more adfocus itself should make in the long run.
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  • Kambatra
    I am agree with this guy,i think this feature must be implied to full page script only.
  • AdFoc.usStaff
    The value of that visit degrades after the 2nd and 3rd visit from the same IP. The value is so low that it doesn't earn anything for our advertisers. This is the main reason and can be measured directly since we run our own advertising campaigns and have that data. In addition, it is standard practice in the advertising industry.

    In your example, 15 links to photos all with AdFoc.us links is the kind of abuse we try to prevent from our service. In addition to the 3rd+ visit not being worth anything, you are annoying your users by requiring them to skip the ad 15 times to see the photos.

    Another reason is that it prevents fraudulent traffic or abusive techniques to load ads 3+ times on the same IP in a single day. If a user is seeing more than 3 AdFoc.us links in a same day,there is a good chance the technique to get people to click on the links is abusive/annoying.

    All other paid link shorteners employ the same technique to pay for duplicate IP visits.