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With a fixed fee distributed among many sites, isn't the payout going to be very small?
There are several reasons why this won't happen. First, there are extreme visitors on both sides of the scale: people with thousands of pages and people that only visit one or two pages a month. These extremes cancel each other out - what you really have to look for is your average visitor. And your average visitor won't visit thousands of pages. We expect that typical payouts will be in the range of 0.5 - 2 cents per provided page.
Second: your visitors don't have unlimited time. They have jobs and many things to do that occupy them from surfing thousands of pages.
Third: There is no reason for subscribers to visit many pages in evil intent to deliberately bring their pagehits down.
Fourth: It's the way how Ipaya works, and it has countless advantages: Only a flat rate relieves users from long, uncomfortable decision-making before clicking each link. And only a flat rate gives users complete budget control and cures them from the anxiety of a big bill of small payments. You're free to implement other payment systems, but we feel confident that the advantages of Ipaya far outweigh such a theoretical danger.
The price I earn for each page is variable? I don't like that.
Well, if you have fixed pricing, your monthly payout is variable too: People might not visit you, and you earn a lot less.
Additionally, it's about the average visitor to your site. This average visitor is pretty predictable, and the money he spends for each page doesn't changes quickly. Once you have received your first monthly payout, you know what you can earn approximately. And using your continously updated statistics, you can estimate how much you will earn during every new month to prevent negative surprises.
But most importantly, you earn more this way: Publishers payout is flexible because customers pay a flat rate. And this flat rate makes the offer more attractive, so a lot more users visit your page and pay you money. This increase in visitors to your site far outweigh the possible uncertainty of variable pricing. Just do your own calculations!
Pages that have been visited don't immediately appear on my "provided pages" list.
This is normal because we synchronize our database with your site only every 12 hours. Wait at bit, and they will appear.
How can I check if Ipaya really counts and pays every page as an active publisher?
Every time we import the list of hits from your server to our server, we create a detailed report that you can access here. The report includes
- How many entries we copied over
- How many duplicates we found
- Messages if some errors happened
To survey us even further, we suggest that you create a hidden page and visit that page a with as many different users as you like. Then visit your Statistic and look for the hidden URL. You will be able to verify that the number of pagehits corresponds to the actual number. After the month is over, revisit the page and you will be able to verify as well that the payout for this URL corresponds to the sum of the payout-per-page amounts of all users.
Are transmissions between Ipaya and users encrypted?
Currently, transmissions between users and PayPal (where subscribers enter their credit card details) are encrypted. Transmissions between users and Ipaya aren't, but we plan to introduce this feature in the future.
What is your motivation for all this?
Although the WWW grew massively in the last years, in many subject areas valuable information can not be found on the internet. The information is still packaged in books and other media - that's of course because with these media, the author can be paid. This is a pity because the internet would be so much better in transporting information than physical media are: They are faster, up-to-date and can be enriched with programs and multimedia.
There is no sign for a change, although a lot of time has passed - so we believe this will never happen if authors can't be paid. Several ideas have been discussed to pay them, but none were adopted by big audiences. It's our true belief that our way of payment can be adopted more easily and can finally bring a lot of missing valuable information to the internet.
How do you print your pages - they are pretty wide
Browsers normally have no problem with pages as wide as ours because they scale all content for print. If your browser doesn't do this, just open "Page Setup" and change the orientation from portrait to landscape, and everything should print out fine.
How do I pronounce Ipaya?
Pronounce it any way you like :-) However, if you don't want to confuse people, we suggest to pronounce it "I Pay Ya".
Why do you have an exclamation point in your logo? Are you mimicking Yahoo?
Not at all. Exclamation points in company logos were not invented by Yahoo!, they actually have been around well before: Design house Joop! already did it in 1987, for example. We decided to use it to express freshness and positivity. By the way, it's only our logo that bears the exclamation point, our company name and everything else goes without it.
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