In percentages for adult it is around 25%. That's a huge number.

Right. This is what I'm talking about :thumbsup

You're welcome, guys. Tell a friend :thumbsup

Not exactly the solution to our problem.

It would indeed hide the word "TRACK" in the URL the surfer is about to click, which is good. Nobody likes to be "tracked". No point in scaring the surfers :1orglaugh

BUT the surfer would still be routed via something like hxxp://www.xxxxxxxxxx.com/TRACK/m726BBVhj2 and that might be caught by the adblock.

Back in the day to get rid of the ads you needed to modify your hosts file to look something like this. Then a URL like this would simply be dropped based on the *track* string.

These days you have software adblocks and most of all ADBLOCKING BROWSER EXTENSIONS that are extremely popular. They may not be as radical as hosts files but still.. no point getting in the line of fire..

:2 cents:

Exactly.

289,728,865 Downloads

21,687,591 Average Daily Users

And that's just for Firefox..

To be absolutely clear because some people seem to be missing the point:

It is an uphill battle and some traffic is bound to be lost due to adblockers. They block specific sites, they block counters, affiliate links etc based on various criteria. Plus these list are all "user contributed" so you never know what some user is going to suggest for blocking.

So we cannot win this 100%

BUT ONE THING IS CERTAIN:

You should always avoid using OBVIOUS tracking strings (*track* *ads* *banner* *adv* etc) in your URL's, directory and file names etc because some of them WILL DEFINITELY end up blocked based on that.

And this is what I'm talking about in this thread.

I will take this into consideration. Thanks for coming out. Cool starry brah.

interesting topic thx

Adblocker 101:
Couple obvious points
If you change /track/ to /qwert/ you may get around the block if the base URL is not blocked.
The more traffic/people that see the ads loading the faster the new link structure will be added to ad blocker.
Currently no real adblock on mobile...

Now for some fun:
Beating ad blocker will not make the cash fall from the sky like it is 1999...!
You can expect 1-15% more ad loads,
This new found 1-15% will be in the way of ad loads that will be shown to people that don't want to see your ads...
This will resulting in them not clicking on your ads
---- ok a few will but we are talking about 1 in like 10,000 ----
So this will make your CTR's look 1-15% worse than they really are...
Expect to be changing links a lot...
Ad blocker list is updated weekly sometimes more...
And what do you get for all this hard work....
About a 1% increase in $ --- with that extra $1 you can really make it rain...

This means that you need to wait for the program to change their links...
They the program owners need to now support and maintain all new and old link structures for you...
Wash Rinse Repeat ...
How long until this causes a fuckup and you see a larger than 1% drop in sales...
---Opps their system no-longer supports the links you forgot to update so it didn't track your sales so sorry... Guess you wont be making it rain that month...

So what can you do if you are hell bent on getting that 1%:

You the website owner need to help yourself and solve a couple issues.
1- You need to start hosting your own ad creatives and not hotlinking them from the sponsors.
2- You need to stop linking directly to www.sponsor.com/track=12345 and start using redirects etc..
*added value is with proper stats you can now track your own links...
3- For the longterm you need to add a couple things:
A) script to your page that detects that adblocker is being uses..
*simple load a pixel from a known blocked value.. if adblocker is being used it wont load.
B) script that check to see if said pixel has loaded.. again .. if adblocker is being used it wont load.
C) script to force ab creatives and links from a backup not blocked location.
D) Setup a few domains that can be simbolicaly used.. add a new one a month check your current ones

When you redirect a link from a not blocked domain etc.. it still loads.

Keep in mind you should be checking your sites with ad blocker weekly your own sites.
Simple make a page that loads 1 image *using the same path as yoru ads* from each of your domains..
Turn on ad blocker..
See the ones that are not loading anymore, they are being blocked.

Or again you could wait for ALL the sponsors you send traffic to, to update, maintain, etc and then wait again for them to do it all over again when they get blocked again, and again, and again..

... manually changing your hard coded links (or maybe link files) each time.

50 pro tips

Crakrevenue today:

safeTRACKINGsystem.com...

yeah, no shit lol

I bet the CTR was great on this one, too. Surfers love to be TRACKED safely lol

waiting for NATS to drop "track" from their links now.....