Comments on: Down Spottt, down boy! http://bambit.kusangpalo.com/2008/down-spott-down-boy.html Life begins at home. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:33:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bambit http://bambit.kusangpalo.com/2008/down-spott-down-boy.html/comment-page-1#comment-17602 Bambit Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:45:41 +0000 http://bambit.kusangpalo.com/?p=1067#comment-17602 Hey Spott team, thanks for the comment and the visit. However, you seem not to have gone further into the Related reading links I provided, where two more in-depth analysis of your product appear. I would give more weight to your explanations if you had commented on those two sites as well, but seems like you haven't yet. it would be interesting to see what those bloggers and their numerous commenters, would say about this explanation. As for traffic, my google analytics says i get 2,400 NEW visits a month on average, on top of the 1000 or so I regularly get. if that is relatively low volume to you, then so be it. My point is that no Spott user feels compelled to click on a widget, they way Entrecard users are, and that if reloading a page shows a new widget, the "exposure" really isn't that useful is it? If a user had seen a widget but had clicked on a new link before deciding he'd like to click on the widget, he wouldn't be able to, would he, as the widget has already refreshed. But all this is spilled milk (for you, not me) as I have already removed both widgets I had put in my blogs. Hey Spott team, thanks for the comment and the visit. However, you seem not to have gone further into the Related reading links I provided, where two more in-depth analysis of your product appear. I would give more weight to your explanations if you had commented on those two sites as well, but seems like you haven’t yet. it would be interesting to see what those bloggers and their numerous commenters, would say about this explanation.

As for traffic, my google analytics says i get 2,400 NEW visits a month on average, on top of the 1000 or so I regularly get. if that is relatively low volume to you, then so be it.

My point is that no Spott user feels compelled to click on a widget, they way Entrecard users are, and that if reloading a page shows a new widget, the “exposure” really isn’t that useful is it? If a user had seen a widget but had clicked on a new link before deciding he’d like to click on the widget, he wouldn’t be able to, would he, as the widget has already refreshed.

But all this is spilled milk (for you, not me) as I have already removed both widgets I had put in my blogs.

]]> By: Spottt Team http://bambit.kusangpalo.com/2008/down-spott-down-boy.html/comment-page-1#comment-17601 Spottt Team Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:40:54 +0000 http://bambit.kusangpalo.com/?p=1067#comment-17601 Hello, Your blog is very interesting. Although I'd like to point out a few things. 1) If no one is clicking on your Spottt, then that means no one is finding it interesting. There is nowhere where it states that you should have a certain CTR. Possibly you should change your image and see what happens? There are a vast number of Spottts that have a very high CTR. 2) Your Spottt is shown on a variety of pages. This gives you the most visibility. Isn't this what you'd want? 3) A different Spottt is shown each time the page is refreshed. Thats the way it works. Spottt's servers choose which image to display when it gets a request. There is nothing that states you should see one image and one image only. 4) Yes, sometimes there will be shown house ads. This is because of the ratio of how you earn/spend credits. Currently it is 3:4. Mathematically this works out so that 1/4 of the time you will see house ads. For a free service, this is how to advertise. 5) Your site gets relatively low volume of traffic. That means you don't earn very many credits, which means your Spottt isn't shown that often. This could account for the fact that you don't have very many clicks. Spottt Team Hello,
Your blog is very interesting. Although I’d like to point out a few things.

1) If no one is clicking on your Spottt, then that means no one is finding it interesting. There is nowhere where it states that you should have a certain CTR. Possibly you should change your image and see what happens? There are a vast number of Spottts that have a very high CTR.
2) Your Spottt is shown on a variety of pages. This gives you the most visibility. Isn’t this what you’d want?
3) A different Spottt is shown each time the page is refreshed. Thats the way it works. Spottt’s servers choose which image to display when it gets a request. There is nothing that states you should see one image and one image only.
4) Yes, sometimes there will be shown house ads. This is because of the ratio of how you earn/spend credits. Currently it is 3:4. Mathematically this works out so that 1/4 of the time you will see house ads. For a free service, this is how to advertise.
5) Your site gets relatively low volume of traffic. That means you don’t earn very many credits, which means your Spottt isn’t shown that often. This could account for the fact that you don’t have very many clicks.

Spottt Team

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