First, what's an Admin Search? Are we required to click on all admin searches?

Secondly, what's with not allowing us to use proxy logs? Gainmail specifically asked me not to use a proxy log, and if it's what I think it is, all it does is speed up my computer so it's not glacial. They also told me not to click on paid links. Isn't that how we make money.

With searches, often the computer loads them long after the counter has finished. They are glacial. What's the point in having a 30-second timer, if I'm still waiting for it to finish loading 5 minutes later? Sometimes, I'm not sure if the site's locking up or it's my computer. To get credit for a valid search, must we wait for it to finish loading even when it's glacial?

I often get security messages stating that I've clicked 100 times in 24 hours, etc. Is this something to worry about? Unfortunately, it's hard not to get such errors when most of the sites I subscribe to seem to send out searches and not much else.

Thanks for helping me out.

Can they delete you for not waiting until the page finishes loading?

if the page doesn't finish loading you haven't done a "valid" search. the page of the result that you click has to completely load for the advertiser to get their credit.

you should not be deleted for not doing a valid search unless it is a program that has stated that you will be deleted for clicking and not searching. (however this is against the TOS of most of the search engines)


technically when you click a search link you are only required to look at the portal page and think about searching or signing up, just like any other ad. however, i generally only click if i'm intending to make a search.

I have a few questions myself. When I get the message click limit exceed, I always do a new search, often resulting in the same message. How often do I have to search before i can give up with a clean conscience? LOL.

And another one: some search links take me to the yahoo search page. Do I have to do a new search there? What is up with that? Should I just try to figure out which links take me there and then avoid them?

Still trying to find my way around.

Thanks!
crawfordzoo

If you've spent 20 minutes waiting for a result I don't think you have anything to feel guilty about. You've definitely gone above and beyond the call of duty. Sometimes the search engines aren't working properly, and there's nothing you can do about that.

If you want to avoid getting the "click limit exceeded" messages, all I can suggest is limiting how many searches you do each day and being choosy about where you do them. I've checked off the search category at a few programs that I like enough to support, and when those programs send searches I do them. If I haven't checked the search category as an interest and a program sends me searches anyway, I don't do them.

Now I realize that doing fewer searches means earning less, but searches can take a lot of extra time to do, especially if you have a slow computer or are actually looking for something that interests you. I guess it all comes down to how much your time is worth and how much of it you're willing to spend on each program. I'm not comfortable spending two hours a day just doing searches, but somebody else might think that was fine. You're the only one who can decide what's okay for you.