Gold status vs Ad-free page views

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Pookamatic	Gold status vs Ad-free page views		Lead	[-]
Posts: 12 23-Nov-08 3:13 PM	I know this has been talked about before, but I couldn't locate any specific information regarding our board's situation. We are a private board owned and viewed by a small group of friends. In the past, we were with ezBoard and got accustomed to having a community chest that was filled when necessary and our Gold status was purchased in "blocks" of 3, 6, or 12 month increments. Here is our current account status: This community allows contributions. This community has Gold Ad-Free status until Dec 1, 2008 (9 days left) After that, this community has 340175 Ad-Free page views. So my question is, are Gold status purchases no longer available, leaving the sole option of Ad-free page views? My rough calculations show this method as being a quite an increase in fees. Thanks for looking into this. Feel free to yell if this is spelled out elsewhere. ** Found something: http://support.yuku.com/topic/6920, halfway down the post at "Migrated boards that are over 50k views" That pretty much explains the switch. So I guess the only way to cut back on costs is to buy in bulk and reduce page views? Last Edited By: Pookamatic 23-Nov-08 3:26 PM. Edited 1 time.
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jgestar		#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 94 23-Nov-08 4:26 PM	If your board will be charged by page views after Dec 1st, then you must be running over 50,000 page views a month. Don't panic yet, a page view is not the same thing as an ad view (welcome to Yuku-nomics). An ad view is a page that has an ad displayed. Unlike ezBoard, Yuku Gold charges only for ads not viewed, not total page views. Currently, only topic pages have ads. Your main page, the various forum pages, calendar, etc. do not display ads and don't count as ad views. On my board, the ratio of page views to ad views is roughly 3:1. Like ezBoard, anyone with a Yuku Supporter subscription has their ad views paid and not charged to the board account. When you migrated to Yuku, your existing Gold Community subscription was continued in days at the prevailing ezBoard rate. However, your Community Chest funds were converted to Ad-Free page views. You should have received those ad free views at the rate of 360,000 per $54 in the Community Chest. When I did the math for my board, the ad-free page charges are lower than the old ezBoard charges. Cutting back on costs: There is no equivalent of a Community Chest on Yuku to collect funds before a purchase. I was miffed when my Community Chest was coverted, so I started a community PayPal account. We can accumulate funds on PayPal and keep them isolated before buying additional ad views. Even after PayPal fees, we come out ahead on bulk purchases. The PayPal account lets us do other board projects as well. You have a control panel that allows you to determine who sees ads and who doesn't. From your description, I assume you want all of your small group of friends to opt out of ads. Because you have a private board, visitors aren't an issue. Buying in bulk and encouraging Yuku Supporter subscriptions are your best bets. Tom
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Chris W962		#2	[url]	[-]
ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 13731 23-Nov-08 11:03 PM Yuku Help	So my question is, are Gold status purchases no longer available, leaving the sole option of Ad-free page views? My rough calculations show this method as being a quite an increase in fees. I've calculated the cost for hundreds of yuku boards over the past few months. Generally the boards are much cheaper on yuku. If you give me a link to your board I can let you know how much it will cost you for the next year.
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Pookamatic		#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 12 24-Nov-08 7:23 AM	Thanks for the info jgestar. And yes, Chris, that would be great. http://boardatworkeight93186.yuku.com/directory
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cookingkay		#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 102 24-Nov-08 8:16 AM	I am not done yet, have maybe 2000 to add or less. Any rough idea on what it would cost me ?? http://cookingwithkay.yuku.com/directory Also when I have posted over 13,236 why did my post go down to 3000 when I post in my group and why does it say like 9 here ? Thanks
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Chris W962		#5	[url]	[-]
ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 13731 24-Nov-08 8:26 AM Yuku Help	Pookamatic, I have PMed you your quote with some explanation.
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1992casey		#6	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2205 24-Nov-08 9:40 AM munificent member	cookingkay, post counts next to messages reflect the number of posts you've made on a particular board. Your profile currently says that you have 13,288 total Yuku posts. The "9" next to your name on this board reflects the fact that you have 9 posts here at Support. Figure in that some boards always show the total post count for that board next to a member's name. Other boards opt to show the number of posts a member has made at the time that message was posted. This preference is controlled by checking or unchecking the "all posts using current post count" box under Poster Info in the board Display Preferences. If 3,000 still seems off, staff should look into your situation.
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pink		#7	[url]	[-]
Posts: 421 24-Nov-08 11:37 AM	paying for ad-free page views rather than days of gold (ie, paying the flexible scheme rather than the flat scheme) almost always works out cheaper for you. Especially since if drop back below the 50,000 total views you DON't switch back to days. And when you're on the flexible scheme you have options for letting some people see ads and others not. IMO there should only have been one payment scheme, but meh.
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Kathy		#8	[url]	[-]
ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 1775 24-Nov-08 7:24 PM The puck stops here	I keep hoping that I will have one month on my hockey board with over 50k page vies so that we can go to page views rather than days. That will work out so much better for us. We get all our action from October to May and then not much at all through the summer. With days, the days count down the same whether we have 10 visitors that day or 300.
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