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3.1.6 - Paid To Click
In this session you will create and manage PTC ("paid to click") campaigns.
Such paid ads are shown to the users by the use of functions `<!--^show_ptc(ptc_name,ad_type)^-->` and `<!--^show_random_ptc(ad_type)^-->` from the gpte.cgi tool.
PTC campaigns at database will show all PTC campaigns of your program.
# and name are the id of the creation and the name of the campaign.
Advertiser is the business name of the advertiser who has paid for the campaign.
The active status means that the campaign is available for displaying and paying.
The inactive status means that the campaign duration has expired or that it has not been initiated yet.
A temporally suspended campaign receive the status suspended.
At operations you can edit the campaign, view its stats or delete it.
In the stats screen you can get the last information about the PTC such clicks, exposures, amount to pay to the users, last click and search for clicks using 4 available criteria: date/time, user, IP and domain.
Add/edit a campaign
From here you can set up and configure all aspects of the PTC campaign.
If you are editing an exisiting campaign, the PTC URL of this campaign will be shown at the ad URL field.
At basic identification you chose a name for the campaign, inform who is the advertiser of the PTC and the URL of the target page.
In crediting you can determine how and how much an user is credited for clicking in this PTC and if his upline will be credited too.
Use the validity field to establish whether the campaign is active or not. Check suspend temporally if you want to make this campaign temporally unavailable to users.
A specific time validity can be set using the valid from (...) to (...) (date/time format is YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss) as well setting the campaign to expire after a certain number of clicks or of ad exposures.
From this field you can restrict this PTC to users who belong to a given group.
The timer field lets you determinate the amount of time after which an user is credited for clicking on the ad and the interval, in hours, after which the same user can click on this PTC again .
Use the banner, HTML, popUp/popUnder and iframes ad setup to configure the ad appearance.
Please, note you can set up only the ad types that you want to employ.
Important: banner, pop up and pop under ads point to the target URL by default, HTML and iFrame ads, due their variable structure, cannot, however, have that feature. So, in order to have a working HTML or iFrame ad, you must include, by hand, the PTC URL (`<your site URL>/cgi-bin/gpteclick.cgi?id=<PTC name>&type=ptc`) as a link in the code of the HTML ad or in the source of the iFrame page.
Search for campaigns
From this screen you can search for PTC campaigns using 6 criteria: PTC name, advertiser, target URL, comission, group restriction and time validity.
Reset counter
Use this to reset the counter (#) of the PTC campaigns.
Such feature is useful when you have deleted some campaigns and want to restore the integrity of the counter.

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