Eric, Contact email:
partners@swoit.com
Darin, good question ;-)
and thanks for pointing out something that wasn't written clearly enough in our explanation. the system offers so much and has many potential areas for questions that we've had trouble thinking of them all in advance.
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"To combat Fraud, Swoit implements a mathematical algorithm which discards abnormal user sessions which fall outside of two standard deviations either side of the mean for that site. As this check is performed against all sites, it will not adversely affect your overall percentage."
So basically, its a global skim. I dont mind a skim to combat fraud. But how do you calculate the two standard deviations on either side of the mean? If one surfer logs into my paysite and sucks every video I got and spends all night on it thats gonna be an outliar thats gonna get skimmed right? Meaning the 1 guy that sucked all my bandwidth I'm not gonna get paid on.
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The quickest way to clarify is to point out that the mean and standard deviation is not calculated based on the overall mean of other sites, its based entirely on your own members area - so the 'mean' and 'standard deviation' is only relevant to your sites.
Mathematically, all of the 'sessions' will fall within 2 standard deviations of your own mean, so you aren't going to lose out in the situation you outlined above, except that the surfer who sucks all of your bandwidth probably won't fall inside the standard deviation from your mean - which is created as an average of all of your sessions.
We will be watching closely for both surfer and webmaster fraud and in this case we would be looking for evidence of whether a) you are trying to cheat us or
the surfer trying to cheat you. Your mean would have to be pretty low for you to lose out on this situation, and we will be taking all of these factors into account should a situation arise where you are being 'bandwidth sucked' ...
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"Distribution to partners is calculated per site daily with the following formula:
(total minutes for site today from all valid sessions / total minutes for all sites today) * 40% of global daily rebill amount)"
So if 10 surfers suck all my bandwidth for 24 hours but 100 surfers suck a bigger sites bandwidth for the same 24 hours, Im gonna get the shit end of the stick and still eat the bandwidth?
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Partly the info above answers this, but in addition ... no 2 sites can be open at once, so the surfer is either at your site or at someone else's ... you are either being paid for a surfer being at your site or you are not being paid. So if someone is surfing your site for the entire 24 hours, that's a lot of minutes that only YOU can be earning money on ... or a surfer may browse your site for an hour and another bigger site for 2 hours but you still get paid for an hour ...
As with every new product there is going to be a learning curve on how to best maximize the system to your own advantage. The biggest, most unique, rare, niche etc sites will probably make the most money ... but maybe not! Along the way we will be providing heaps of tips based on the information we learn as we go ...