If you have already set your ads at Article Content King. We owe you! There is no question of that. You are going to get all your advertising credits back.

If you have not set your ads yet, you have nothing to worry about, you have not been affected. If you submit your ads for approval before this issue is fixed, they will not be approved until after the issue has been fixed.

It has come to our attention that advertising credits are being “eaten” by search engine robots. This will not do! The search engine spiders live at Article Content King. GoogleBot alone eats up over 10 GIG of bandwidth every month.. But it never buys anything or clicks an ad. Originally a script was written to prevent this from happening, with our continuing efforts to improve the site, somewhere down the line it was bypassed. Not being a programmer myself it took a while for me to realize, and I have no idea how long it has been a problem for. So we are giving you back all your credits from the start.

In a nutshell…

You do not earn credits when a robot visits your page, but you have been losing credits (if your ads are set). You are going to get all your advertising credits back.

It was never our intention for this to happen and you must  be compensated.

It will take a few days to fix this, but when we have you will get back ALL the advertising credits you have spent. Your views will be converted back into credits and this time, they will display to real people… not robots.

If you have been disappointed with the revenue your ads have generated on the site, this is why. All we can do is fix the issue and give you back your credits. The good news is, you will start to see an income from your credits now. We make an average of $6 – 8 per 1000 visitors at article content king and you will be able to tap into that now. (Sorry about before).

Just to be clear about advertising credits, 1000 credits does not equal 1000 page views. It equals 250. You use up 4 credits every time your ads are displayed. (One for each ad).

You earn 1 credit every time your articles are viewed on the site as a free member, and 2 credits if you are a Silver member. As a Silver member you accumulate credits twice as fast from your referrals articles too. When your credits are making you more than $5 per month, upgrading will become a no-brainer, but it may not be so cheap then.

The cost of upgrading will always be pitched in relation to the average value of the advertising space and expected natural traffic to each article. We WANT you to make more money by upgrading… We will get more traffic that way.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this and hope that once fixed, you will begin to see the real value of submitting your articles to article content king.

Now is a great time to submit your articles to article content king. The moderation queue is clear and your article will probably be live on the site tomorrow if you submit it now.

Tags: advertising credits

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