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A few comments from an initial glance: - Site could be improved a lot for mobile. If you get a lot of mobile traffic, which wouldn't surprise me, I'll bet it
by birken 13y ago
A few comments from an initial glance:
- Site could be improved a lot for mobile. If you get a lot of mobile traffic, which wouldn't surprise me, I'll bet it massively underperforms desktop traffic on site engagement and ad revenue.
- You need to A/B test your ad locations a lot more. The locations do not look particularly good to me, but then again this does depend a lot on how most people interact with your site (which likely isn't starting at the homepage).
- More ad networks isn't always better. Are these ad networks actually outperforming adsense? Are you banned from adsense?
Edit: Ignore these two below, thanks jim-greer. Twitter is in fact hosting the images!
- (ignore) You probably could compress the big images more to save bandwidth. I don't know how big of an expense your edgecast bill is, but I'll bet you could cut it down by a lot.
- (ignore) Additionally, fix the cache headers on your images (change them from max-age: 0 to cache forever -- they look immutable). This will immediately lower your edgecast bill by a little bit and really help performance.
- jim-greer 13y ago> You probably could compress the big images more to save bandwidth He's not hosting the images, Twitter is.
- dumbfounder 13y agoAgreed with mobile optimization, I have over 35% mobile traffic and I am doing a terrible job of taking advantage of this. But I don't know the first thing about how to do this. I have done some research and experiments but honestly couldn't make sense of it. Yes, I am banned from Adsense, and just about every top tier ad network. There is a certain amount of porn on Twicsy (maybe 10% of overall traffic, nothing earth shattering) that makes it unsavory to many advertisers. Despite aggressive filtering in place to stop serving top tier ads on anything that might possibly be objectionable, and removing 10's of millions of pictures, it seems like every top provider has blacklisted Twicsy.
- reasonnotreason 13y agoHow much do these bannings hurt your profitability ? Any way to quantify it ?
- lgas 13y agoThe answer to this question determines how much you can afford to either outsource or invest in internal deployment of porn detection. Also, hi Chris!
- dumbfounder 13y agoHi John! We do not download images so porn detection would be a huge endeavor.
- sturgill 13y agoAmazon Mechanical Turk could help with this.
- cinquemb 13y agoCould you load the images from the urls into memory and try out open source code[0] that detects porn (I'm sure there's probably something better out there, but this was just a quick find on github)? I'm not sure how helpful it might be (false positives and what not), but it could help give you more numbers to quantify whats going on? [0] https://github.com/FreebieStock/PHP-Image-Pornographic-Content-Detection https://github.com/FreebieStock/PHP-Image-Pornographic-Conte...
- dumbfounder 13y agoIf I knew that would probably make me even more sad! My gut says I would probably at least triple revenue if I could serve Adsense. Which would be enough to pay myself a bad salary while I continue the fight.
- rsiqueira 13y agoAre you banned from Adsense just because of the porn pics/videos? Or have you been banned for other reasons (e.g. not having your own content, making duplicate content from twitter, copyright issues, dmca, gambling, site quality or other) ?