How webanswers adsense work for not awarded answers ?

According to one of the moderators

They have a custom proprietary method of serving up users ads based on their quality score. This system rotates users ads randomly on unawarded questions with those who have a higher quality score having their ads shown more often then those with a lower score.

Try this thread
http://www.webanswers.com/webanswers-support/how-much-have-you-made-on -webanswers-com-75e314

Thanks for the answers bzkhan but i've already read this post. I read it again but can't find the answers i'm looking for.

The post describe (in parts) how the adsense % are distributed on articles who didn't get awarded but it don't explain how much time it goes that way.

I'm trying to figure out if it worth it (for adsense only) to answers a question that was asked 330 days ago. Did i will get 35 days until the end of the years of adsense on this page or i will get a full years from the day i answers it.

If the questions was asked 330 days ago and it get awarded today, you will get a full year of adsense on it, but if you don't get awarded, i want to know how it work.

I hope it more clear.

I know for sure that it is a year after you are awarded the question, even if the question was asked long ago. I read it either in the FAQs of this site or from what the admin wrote down in a question so I have no idea where to find it. I just remember that part.

I was sort of wondering about the unanswered question expiration date also, but I assume that it won't expire as long as the question is still up.

However, you could always wait and see if jreberry or sidelko answer this question to find out the official word about this. I could be completely wrong, but I hope I'm not. Seeing some of those "old" questions lets me know how popular they are with their views, and may determine if I decide to answer them or not because of their popularity.

If an question is not awarded, users ads are randomly selected weighted by your quality score to show up on the page on any given page view. Only awarded questions are yours having your ad shown 100% of the time.

The 60% / 40% split is based on the value of the click when someone clicks on an ad showing on a question. Lets say the ad click was for 50 cents. You will get 60% of that for 30 cents. The WebAnswers cut of that is the other 40% for 20 cents. That is what the 60/40 split means.

The 40% split goes towards paying for the site, development, ongoing support, servers, bandwidth, etc etc.

Thanks sidelko, that very interesting information about how the site work but it doesn't answer my question.

I still wondering the details but i found some answer by a little experiment :

I answers some question that were over 600 days old, i track them with adsense and i've got adsense display and click, so i guess the expiration date is 1 year after you answers the question, not 1 year when the question is asked for not awarded answers.

Yes I know you already found the answer by now. However you do get earnings for one year from the answers you have been awarded for. If you got awared on 1/1/2000 than it would end on 1/1/2001. On questions that you answered that have not been awarded yet. You will always make money on them no mater how long its been. I did alot of research on this and Have read over 2,000 answers or comments on this topic and the users that been on here the longest say they still earn from the very first question they answered. So if someone has answered over 11,000 questions then there getting paid good. I've been here since Feburay and I can't wait untill Feb comes by again so I can prove this by looking at the very first question I answered to see if I still get paid after a year that I have answered that very first question. Yah it took me three mounths to read all the answers on this topic but it was worth it at the end.











Added to your response earlier, Thats what I thought some people was doing. I don't own any web sites. I just watch the Webanswers site realy close for any loop holes and see who is realy are experts and whos not. People who copy and past are not an expert. People who are called brains are not a expert. A expert is the one who has the highest % in knowlage from thier own experiance in life. I like to edit alot as you can see to answer to any response from the person who ask the question. However back to the topic of your statement. I know that if you put alot of links from all your webs sites you own and than make it where they point to every question you got awarded for. You might have something going for you when it comes to your earnings. I'll give you more intel in Febuary. For now I'm still researching on all these questions I've answered.

This answer was edited by Electrical 27 days ago.

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Very interresting Electrical, i can't wait for a official answer about that or yours after yours first year.

But if it really work that way, awarded answers 1 years limit, not awarded answers no limit, it would be better from adsense point of view to never get awarded answer. It's kinda counter-productive.

Imagine this : Most question only have 1, 2 or 3 answers, i would better have my answer profit shared over a 3-4 years and earn more, that to get my answers awarded and get it fully only for a years. It will drop down my quality score but in the long run earn more money. That not really a incentive to get quality answers at all for everyone. Of course someone could argue that there will be always be someone who would answers quality and get awarded and rip the others the chance to make more money on the long run....

All this is hypothetical, i wish someone who has been here for more than a years to test it or a official word about it.

I love to ear more about that and find out the internal of web answers and ultimately the best way to spend my time here, both to provide help for users and earning the most from it.

On a related topic i still run many test through web answers to find out how it behave with search engine. And i like to ear what you think about these :

- Updating awarded answers : As i know from my job and others website i own, search engine love fresh or updated content. Did anyone try to update old awarded answers, by old i mean 2-3 weeks old since they got on search engine index, and add additional related content to the answer to see how it's increase revenue from it. I already have this experiment running but may take a month before i get some usable results from it. I only focus on awarded answers for now, maybe if it get significant results i will try with not awarded one.

- Did anyone try to make link building to awarded or not answers ? I like to see about it. I didn't have tested that yet but i guess a simple automated script for digg/delicious/directory/other social web site submissions wouldn't be hard to make. And it can't harm web answers, at best you get some in links, at worst, no gain but no penalty. If i made a script it will be home made for me but it would be nice to be able to collaborate with web answers to make it there. A simple script that use these others site API can easly get 10-20 links for each question even if they are low quality significantly increase the revenue we can get from your answers without more job and increase the overall power of the website. In a month or 2 when i will get time i will start searching for that.

For now i'm more in the test stage that on the real answering job and i already get some revenue from this site so i will push this forward in the week/month to come. I like to ear about all experiment like those all of you make and i will share my results later when i found something really useful.

This answer was edited by dylia 27 days ago.

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