Came across something in another thread, and thought I would ask this here... Most websites have a requirement that a member be X% as active as the downline to get downline earnings. Is this counted for all clicks (points, cash, ptc, email, etc.) and is over a certain time period (every 24 hours, 7 days, etc.)? I know if you go on vacation, you don't earn for your downline but have never seen a real explanation of this...

If the scripts don't look at a set period of time, do they consider all clicks? Example, if I go on vacation, am I behind because downline members were clicking while I wasn't? (Such as, they clicked 100 while I was gone do I need to click an extra 70-if 70% is the requirement-to get even again, so I can earn for future earnings?)

To tell the truth, we PO's are also confused about this.

Only credit upline if they are % as active as the downline member that clicked.
(In order to make money from their downline they have to be active clickers. If you put in 100% then they will have had to click on as many ads as the downline member to get credit from them. If you set it to 50% then they will have had to click on at least half as many ads as the downline member to get credit from them . 0% means they will get credit from their downline's clicks regardless of how many ads they have clicked on directly

When crediting uplines do not credit accounts that have not clicked on an advertiser in days
(to always credit regardless of click status put 0)


This is all the script actually says.. it doesn't appear to give dates or times so I presume its all clicks?

Hyia

It is for all tracked clicks, paid or non paid emaillinks, searches, P2C etc.... webmasters can't select to put it only for one sort of links.

If you don't click x% of what one of your refs click, you won't earn anything from that specifical referral ... I don't know for how long, I guess until you meet the minimum of x% again (but that's only a guess)

John advices webmasters to reset click counters at least once a month but they can do what they want and some never reset it, you better ask each webmaster individually because it is seldomly written on site.
So yes, if you go on holliday for 2 weeks, you need to catch up a lot if the % is high and you have referred good referrals who click on many links and do P2C.

Hope this helps

sophieca

Sophie is correct..

More specifically, it is every link that has a number.

That is, you get a link that looks like

http://www.somedomain.com/scripts/runner.p...920982304982342

or something like that. ANY link that looks like that will be included in the tracking (so this includes PTC, PTS, Paid emails, etc.).

This includes non paid links! If they have a link ID associated with them, it gets included in the tracking

This seems like a really unfair system to me. Some sites send out lots of targetted searches so if someone who is in a country which is not allowed to search referrs an active searcher how on earth can he/she keep the activity rate up? Personally I think a minimum of personal earnings is a much fairer way to go.

Just my 20 cents worth tho.

If the minimum does not take months to reach and you can get full balance. Those sites where you can NEVER get full balance even with clicking every link makes it impossible to get enthused about referring, as you have a ceiling of what you can get from ref earnings.

Guess the bottom line is the PO needs to set the terms to meet their own program! If a site has alot of limited click ads and/or limited searches, a high % requirement wouldn't be fair. I guess that just means we should actually read the terms of the programs we join, huh?

Thanks, sophie-for explaining about the click count a little more!