Question about Rotators

[tizzyloucat]

I use TEToolbox to rotate sites. I also use another rotator. If I put the other rotator in the TeToolbox rotator will the second rotator rotate the same as if it were listed as a separate site?

:confused:

[inge]

No, all the sites in the second rotator will share the hits from one site (the rotator itself).
You could add the second rotator as a separate site to get more hits (if that's what you want).

[dehawkinz]

Rotators inside rotators is in fact a common occurrence with people using rotators. The benefits are minimal, unless you really are desperate to extend your permitted sites beyond the TE limit.

Now the thinking goes that if you are allowed 3 sites, and you submit a rotator to each slot you will get 15 sites for the price of 3, which you do but it ignores the fact that using a rotator slows down the site load time, as first the TE has to load the rotator, and then the rotator has to load the url, so quite often you will lose 7 or 8 seconds before your site actually starts to load, and on a 10 second timer, this means your target site will be seen probably for less than 1 second!!

Plus often members will nest rotators inside each other, so you can end up with the situation of rotator A loading Rotator B loading Rotator A loading Rotator B loading....

I would always advise members to use just one rotator, as some exchanges will consider the placing of a rotator inside a rotator as non-TE friendly and so ban it.

DeHawkinz

[tizzyloucat]

Thanks! I am really glad I asked that question! I have a rotator nested in TEToolbox. Based on your information, that is not a good idea. What I usually do is list the rotators separately on the sites I surf and assign separate hits to them. I am still not clear on that one point...am I wasting points by doing that?

[dehawkinz]

It depends on what you are using your rotator for.
For example, on of the TEs I belong to give members a rotator, and I use it to load different splash pages for that exchange and then use it on other programs - this means that each hit to my rotator will give a different view and so make the surf look more varied.
I also used this technique on a start-page I bought on another exchange - members got my ads, but they appeared different and so more 'fresh' than seeing the same page each time.

If you understand that each page inside the rotator will get seen less than if they were listed separately, then how you choose to allocate credits is up to you. Some will assign credits equally to rotators and fixed URLs, some will give rotators more credits to compenate - it is all a matter of personal choice.
It just depends on why you are using the rotator.

DeHawkinz

[xxclixxx]

Think of a rotator as a shower head. It takes the stream of traffic and sprays it out into multiple directions. But each direction is less water than the full stream.

If you put a rotator inside a rotator, it would be like taking a shower head and taking one of the streams of water and putting yet another head that spreads it out even more.

The only time I'd recommend putting a rotator inside a rotator is if you have say 4 sites you are advertising. You could have one rotator for each site, each containing multiple splash pages for that one site. Then you put all 4 rotators into one main rotator. You then advertise that one rotator in the exchanges, and each site will get a peice of the pie.

But what about the dillusion effect? If you want each of the 4 sites to get a stream of it's own, you can insert the main rotator in multiple times (or in StartXchange set the delivery rate to 1000). This in effect would be taking that shower head, and sticking it onto a fire hydrant. So even though it's broken into 4 and then further broken down, the flow is high enough that you'll still get a good amount to each site.

Tim