March stats double as CT network NOW SURGES ahead

April 3, 2008

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Whoa! Our March stats blew us away! According to our Google Analytics, we brought in over 75,000 unique visitors throughout our network of sites. Our HeavyMetalMusic.biz literally doubled since Jan. Also, we just brought online our two NEW baby sites of Sniffout.org and TheBestpickup.com

Our latest media kit is now available here

Highlights include:

1. Our stats for March 2008 as we converted everything over to more legit Google Analytics.

2. We provide access to our Analytics reports as explained here. Now who does that? What was that? No one. Yeah, that’s right. You can advertise with confidence now. These reports are LIVE baby!! Screw all those other sites as they got something to hide!! We sure don’t!

3. Our stats doubled since Jan 2008!!

NOTE: We are on the verge of moving to a dedicated server which will result in much higher rates. If you want to protect your current rate, it is strongly advised to sign something long term.

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Who wants access to our live Google Analytics reporting?

March 20, 2008

Who wants access to our live Google Analytics reporting?

I got highly exciting news I would like to share with you. Recently, my server has crashed three times due to the high volumes of traffic it is generating. It seems I will be offloading some highly intensive scripts to make it faster and leaner. Anyhow, our March stats has proven:

1. Completely blown away our Jan stats that were the networks highest EVER. We are still only on Mar 19th!!

2. A rate increase will be needed to supplement the higher volumes and new server needs. This does not include the new re-jigged sniffout.org or thebestpickup.com. These are the two other sites I mentioned about.

As some feel I may be over-charging $250 a month, I would like to challenge any webmaster who is giving 4 banners across 5 sites for this rate. I am driving literally thousands of impressions at pretty affordable rates. This does not include our video ad feeds off our Youtube channel.

In order to increase confidence in the site’s network, I am thinking of giving third party Google Analytics Reporting access to my top 3 sites that include heavymetalmusic.biz, caustictruths.com, and punk.bz. As I am using this as my standard web reporting mechanism, I would like to showcase the exact type of audience the sites have, exact numbers due to unique visitors, what they are looking at etc, etc. Some of this is highly confidential from my perspective. As a result, the passwords will change very frequently but I am interested to find out who is interested in this service. I don’t think any other web master offers this kind of service. I am pretty convinced you will be able to advertise with the Caustic Truths network as you see our Google Analytics Reporting numbers. Also, this would put the network at a premium service for your online ad efforts. I don’t think any other network or web publisher offers these type of services. Right now according to Google Analytics, our numbers are driving over 3000 unique DAILY visitors in the past few weeks. It seems to be growing to. Forget your other research methods (this includes compete.com and alexa.com) on sites. Google Analytics is now the only true way to measure site performance. Only confident web publishers will allow potential advertisers to see these numbers live right off of the servers of Google. I am such one such publisher to show our number by doing this.

Let me know if this helps in your decision if it will raise your confidence in the network’s services.

P.S. As said, you are getting 4 banners across 5 sites which totals 20. For $250, you are rally paying just more than $10 per banner on the most competitive sites across the country. Again these sites include caustictruths.com, heavymetalmusic.biz, punk.bz, sniffout.org, and thebestpickup.com

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Contest and Prize giveaways and how it works for advertisers

February 28, 2008

Contest and Prize giveaways and how it works for advertisers

Thanks for offering a prize. Here is what I need.:

Please send out an HTML page with your contest offering. Just include your giveaway and any remote images/flash files you want to display. I cannot host the images or files but just have your HTML link back to your external file or image. A good example of this is:

http://www.totalassault.com/contests/cid/5j62zncqe2/01451/

Also, I will post and send out an Email blast to my subscribers once completed.

As for winners, I will send out the address for those that are interested. I don’t want to eat the shipping expense so the items can be shipped from your location. As a result, do not send me any prizes.

Do note I have capped this to 25 sponsors currently as many more seem to be wanting in. In the future, I will only base my priorities on those PAYING advertisers. I am also looking to expand this offering to those outside the music industry as well.

Thanks again for your offer and help

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Why is Caustic Truths not part of banner ad network?

February 27, 2008

Simple. They pay less than what a cat eats. As most networks take 50% of the cut and doing this site full time, there is no point in bringing in a middle man. We only belong to one network for now at the request of one our clients. We have tried high profile ones before and not worthy of the effort. As it stands, in order to bring high quality content, we need to generate as much revenue to keep the staff on full time basis. We will always encourage advertisers to deal directly with sites versus networks.