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What is a Publisher?
A Publisher is the owner of a website or blog. Publishers can
host ads on their websites or blogs in exchange for payment.
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What is an Ad Network?
An Ad Network, is a company that has a collection of ads to be
placed on publisher sites. We partner with several top ad
networks to provide you with the largest selection of ads
possible.
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How do I get paid for an ad on my site?
Different ads have different payout types, which are specified
before you place the ad on your website or blog. You get paid
for an ad on your site in one of three ways: if your site shows
an ad a specific amount of times, if the ad is clicked on by a
visitor to your web site, or if a visitor to your site follows
a specified transaction path, such as a purchase or form
submission.
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What does CPC mean?
CPC or Cost Per Click involves the process for which an ad that
is shown on your site costs an advertiser for a single click
from a web site visitor.
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What does CPM mean? (which do I choose to
put on my page?)
CPM or Cost Per Thousand (M standing for thousand in roman
terms) is used to calculate an ad cost to an advertiser based
on 1,000 impressions or ad views on a web site.
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What does CPA mean?
CPA or Cost per Action/ Cost per Acquisition is used to
calculate an ad cost to an advertiser based on specified
actions (a purchase, a form submission, and so on) linked to an
advertisement.
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What does SEO mean?
SEO or Search Engine Optimization is when web page content is
arranged in a specific manner as to increase organic search
rankings in search engines such as Google.com, Yahoo.com and
Live.com. Organic search rankings are search results that are
not paid advertisements on search engines.
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What does LOL mean?
LOL is instant message chat slang for laughing out loud :-)
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What advantages does AD-Village provide?
AD-Village provides separate but exciting advantages for both
ad networks looking for publishers to host their ads and for
publishers to earn more money from their ad space. For ad networks, AD-Village
provides more targeted, transparent ad placement. For publishers, we provide
access to premium ad networks.
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What is the AD-Village's target market?
The target market for AD-Village is two fold. The first target
is publishers of all sizes and traffic levels that want to make
a higher return on their viewers and ad space. The second
target is ad networks that want to limit the publisher audience
who can select their ads.
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How do Publishers benefit?
Publishers directly benefit when using AD-Village by earning
more of a return than when using the other networks alone.
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How do Ad Networks benefit?
Ad Networks benefit by reaching more publisher audience with
minimal effort. Just give us the green light and our
Development Team can retrieve ads from your backend, whether
you have an API or not. We provide complete transparency to our publisher
network. You can limit ad distribution by specific website, or by a
publisher's traffic level, category, geography, and more.
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What is the AD-Village's business model?
The AD-Village business model is to recommend top paying ads to
publishers based on their unique identities, and enable them to
then place the ads on their websites or blogs. We work with
multiple ad networks to provide publishers with the best
selection of ads possible.
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How does AD-Village differ from its
competitors?
AD-Village differs from our competitors in several ways:
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Higher payout
2) It's free
3) Easy to use
4) Opt-in for
complete control of every ad on your site
5) AD Management
console lets you monitor ads and revenue
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How is AD-Village funded?
At this time AD-Village is self-funded by its two founders and
is not a publicly-held company.
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How many people work for AD-Village?
AD-Village has a high profile core group of very smart people
working on some exciting technology to help website owners,
bloggers, and ad networks earn more money for their online ad
campaigns.
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When was AD-Village created?
AD-Village was created in August of 2008 and was shown at the
2008 BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, NV.
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Where is AD-Village located?
AD-Village's corporate headquarters are in Silicon Valley. See
our Contact Information for more information.
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Does AD-Village have partnerships with
advertisers?
AD-Village works with many advertisers to bring the highest
earning potential to blog networks. AD-Village does not currently work
with direct advertisers.
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What are the future plans/initiatives for
AD-Village?
AD-Village plans to constantly incorporate premium ad network
partnerships, improve its ad targeting technologies, and sign
on more publishers, including website and blog owners.
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Which ad sizes do you offer?
AD-Village offers many ad sizes and text ad sizes. The most
popular are below.
- 120 x 600 Skyscraper
- 160 x 160 Small Square
- 160 x 600 Wide Skyscraper
- 180 x 150 Small Rectangle
- 180 x 300 Tall Rectangle
- 200 x 200 Small Square
- 250 x 250 Square
- 300 x 70 Mini Wide Rectangle
- 300 x 125 Mini Wide Rectangle
- 300 x 250 Rectangle
- 334 x 100 Small Wide Rectangle
- 336 x 160 Wide Rectangle
- 336 x 280 Rectangle
- 400 x 90 Small Content Banner
- 450 x 90 Small Content Banner
- 468 x 60 Mini Blog Banner
- 468 x 90 Small Blog Banner
- 468 x 120 Blog Banner
- 468 x 180 Blog Banner
- 550 x 90 Content Banner
- 550 x 120 Content Banner
- 728 x 90 Leaderboard
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Where should I place my ads?
Ads can be placed almost anywhere on a website. The most
optimal areas for ads to be placed will vary but some
suggestions are top center, right margin, and inside blog
entries.
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Will you need my tax ID, EIN or SSN?
This information is used for payments and to confirm you as a
valid blog network operator. If you are a US-based blog network
operator, it will be required. It is for tax and validation
purposes, and will always remain strictly confidential.
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Which payment method do you use to pay
publishers?
Currently, publishers must have an account at PayPal in order
to get paid.
For international blog network operators, please contact
support@ad-village.com to get setup for payment through our
service.
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What browsers are supported?
Currently:
- Firefox 2 on WindowsXP and Vista
- Firefox 3 on WindowsXP and Vista
- Microsoft IE 7 on WindowsXP and Vista
- Microsoft IE 8 on WindowsXP and Vista
- Firefox 3 on Mac
- Firefox 3 on Linux (Ubuntu) and Unix (Solaris)
- Apple Safari 3 on Mac
- Google Chrome on WindowsXP and Vista
For international blog network operators, please contact
support@ad-village.com to get setup for payment through our
service.
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AD-Village how-to videos
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Sign up process
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Dashboard overview
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First time users
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Category Management
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Search new ads and add to shopping cart
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Update account information
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Forgot your password?
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Copy and paste Javascript code to your Wordpress plugin
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Copy and paste Javascript code to your website or blog
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Read your financial reports and analytics.
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Company & application overview.
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Company & application overview in French
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Company & application overview in Spanish
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Company & application overview in Italian
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Company & application overview in Portuguese
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