Last
March, I published [Slick Adgitizing] as part of the [Come Monday] series on
AsTheCrackerheadCrumbles. It was about
how several place non-Adgitize ads right up against the Adgitize widget, which
makes them indistinguishable from the ones that Adgitize members click-on to
get points.
After
exchanging emails with Ken Brown, the owner(?) of Adgitize, he assured me that
he would check it out when he finished some project he was working on. I never heard anything back from him after
that, but several weeks later, I did notice that he had added a razor-thin
border to the widget, which was useless from my evidently overly cynical
point-of-view.
With
no official notice, many more are now doing the same thing. I was preparing an update, which would have
included linked-icons of the sites that I have noticed, but I suppose it is a
mute point now. For my patience with Mr.
Brown has run-out, and I will be deleting my Adgitize account in the next day
or two.
No,
it is not just on account of the slick adgitizing issue that I am leaving. For when I went to renew the ad for this
site, I found that I did not have enough in my PayPal account. When I went to see what was going on, I
discovered that the last payment I had received from Adgitize was on September
8th for $12.59, which was down from the $15.31 that I had been paid
on August 6th.
Needlessly
to say, I was confused. For a post is published
each and every day on AsTheCrackerheadCrumbles, which is where the Adgitize
widget is located, and several articles are published here each week. Furthermore, I had been making enough drops
to earn the limit of 100 points every day until I stopped last week on account
of having better things to do.
When
I asked Mr. Brown about what was going on via email around four hours ago, I
received a reply a couple of hours later, which is certainly commendable. What he said was not.
I am showing earnings of $3.18
for September and $4.73 for October. That is less than the necessary $10 threshold
to receive a payment from Adgitize.
When I look at your points earned
for September and October you are earning 270 points a day which translate into
9 to 11 cents a day. On the 3 days in October you wrote an article on your blog
you earned over 350 points. That would have earned you around 54 cents a day.
It doesn't appear you have written an article since mid October that we have
recorded.
To be
honest about it, I have never understood his points system, but I suspect that
the main reason for why my income decreased so rapidly is on account of the content. For last February, he notified me that much
of what I publish was falling well short of what he considers to be original
content, and after I explained to him that there is still a great deal of work
involved in even publishing my [Sites To See/A Sunday Drive] and [WhiteHeart Wednesday]
series, he graciously apologized and all went merrily along until September.
Alas, I
first joined Adgitize in April of 2009.
If you want to stay, proceed at your own risk.
***UPDATE***
Since
this was published, I received another email from Mr. Brown that suggested that
I had not informed them of the RSS feed change to AsTheCrackerheadCrumbles,
which occurred after the original Feedburner RSS feed for that site just quit
working. Since I had not received any
notice of them no longer being able to pick up my feed, I assumed that it had
automatically switched like it did in other cases. Nonetheless, I am still done.
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