We’re on a mission. A simple one, but a very important one. You see, I’m the forgetful type. I can’t really remember things too well and I figure that there must be loads more people like me out there. So our mission is to help people like me by making it as easy as possible to sign up or sign in to Afrigator and GatorPeeps.
The key to making this as easy as possible is to limit the number of login details that one needs to remember. For instance, if you have an Afrigator account, you won’t need a separate account to log in to GatorPeeps. Things are already simpler, which makes hamster brains like me feel a bit better. And it’s pretty useful for you guys too.
So, how do we make this even easier? The most obvious way is to let you use details you already know without needing to commit any new information to your precious memory. You can now join or log in with your Google, Yahoo, WordPress, Blogger, Twitter, Facebook, Open ID or Flickr details. Personally, I think this is pretty nifty!
So, how does this work?
Here’s a 60 second run down of how to join or log in with your favourite web site’s login details:
If you have any questions, queries or thoughts – please drop us a line below.
There was one more thing that I wanted to mention, but I can’t remember right now. Maybe later…
I’ve done a quick video which shows you how to add your Afrigator tracking code to your blog in under 1 minute. You can get your Afrigator tracking code here: http://afrigator.com/dashboard
How does the ranking system on Afrigator work? Well, it’s a lot like the Olympics. There is a gold medal for each race (like each of our criteria) but the really big deal is the overall winner at the end which takes all the medals from all the different sports and gets an average.
So, here are the Afrigator events:
* Unique visits
* Page views
* Links from blog posts
* Number of blogs that link to you
We take an average of all four factors and then assign a ranking,
For example, if we compare my blog and Stii’s blog:
* unique visits: 10,000 ranking = 1
* page views: 10,000 ranking = 2
* links from blog posts: 5 ranking = 2
* number of blogs that link to you: 3 ranking = 2
* unique visits: 9,000 ranking = 2
* page views: 20,000 ranking = 1
* links from blog posts: 10 ranking = 1
* number of blogs that link to you: 5 ranking = 1
So, even though my blog got more views than Stii’s did, over all Stii has a better average than I do, so he is ranked higher. He gets the gold medal at the end.
To see a more detailed technical explanation of how the Afrigator ranking system works, hop over to Stii’s blog and have a look at his post on the matter.
I really hope that this clears things up a bit. If you have any more questions, please let us know in the comments form below and we’ll try our best to help.
We’ve been throwing the term “verticals” around at the Adgator offices and on our site for the last while now. Verticals are great, especially for Adgator, but loads of people have been going “psssst – what exactly is it?” So I figure that a quick post will clear verticals up for everybody.
One of the really cool things about Adgator is our ability to tell what it is that you’re blogging about. We do this using our top secret algorithms and a little bit of baking powder. Anyway, once we’ve figured out what exactly it is that you’re passionately blogging about, we try and assign it to a category. We call these categories verticals.
We have four main verticals on the Adgator network – Lifestyle, Technology, Entertainment and Business. So your blog will fall in to one of these four verticals. We spend a lot of time figuring out which blogs will fit best in to which categories to make sure that you get the right kind of advertising on your blog.
Each vertical also has a number of sub verticals, which let us narrow down your content a little further for advertisers who would like to target very specific types of blog. Here you can see the sub-verticals we’ve used in the Lifestyle vertical.
When an advertiser comes to Adgator to book a campaign, chances are that they have a very specific audience in mind for their campaign (we hope that they do!). So they select a vertical (or verticals) that they would like to target. Let’s create an example.
If an advertiser selects all the blogs in the Technology vertical, this means that bloggers in this vertical will see paid ads. If your blog is in the Entertainment vertical and there are currently no paid ads in that vertical (or only a portion of the inventory has been booked) chances are you’ll see one of our famous Adgator placeholder ads. This doesn’t mean that there’s anything wrong with your blog or your code or that we think you smell funny. It just means that we don’t have an ad for you right now.
The good news is that the team here at the Gator Pen is hard at work finding advertisers to suit your blog (and your pocket) so before too long you’ll see ads all the time. And make money all the time.
I hope that this post has shed a little more light on the way that Adgator works and disspelled those nasty rumours saying that we don’t like you. If you have any more questions, drop them in the comments below and we’ll be sure to answer to the best of our ability.
