getting started: basic settings

With your website fully configured to process incoming and outgoing traffic,
it is now time to configure some basic settings in ATC to allow smooth operation

Go to menu --> trades --> signup form --> Settings For New Trades

Extra out Traffic Handling
recommended setting: Trades first, then gallery
Go to menu --> atc --> settings --> General Traffic Settings

# max amount of clicks:
recommended setting: 20
A surfer can click a hundred times of your site, but only the first couple of
clicks are counted as effective clicks and are actually used to
calculate the value of the trade when the ATC trade engine decides which trade gets how many hits.
A setting of 10 - 20 is recommended.

watchlist range: 0 - 10
recommended setting: variable, start with 0 - 10
ATC does not send traffic to trades who has sent you 0 hits.
Those trades are considered to be inactive, and are moved into a watchlist.
There are several ways to activate a trade, like setting a one-time force,
a hourly force, or asking the trade to send some hits your way

Via this range, you can set how many hits a trade must have sent you
in the past 24 hours to become active

As your site grows larger, you will find that your minimum trade size also grows
When you're oversending your smallest trades, increase the minimum trade size
When your largest trade is 20.000 hits out daily, a trade with 5 hits per day
doesn't fit that well in your database anymore.

No Cookie Traffic Handling
recommended setting: Send to Gallery
When a surfer clicks on a link on your website which goes to out.cgi
ATC checks to see if that surfer has also loaded in.cgi, and accepted the cookie
Surfers without a cookie are usually bots / spiders / programs instead of real surfers
They don't generate any sales. Your trades won't be able to track their clicks
It is recommended to send nocookie traffic to galleries.
That way you have a chance to turn a surfer into a bookmarker who might come back later on with cookies enabled.
Sending nocookie traffic will hurt your outgoing productivity.

Blocked Referrer Traffic Handling
recommended setting: Send to Gallery
When a surfer clicks on a link which goes to out.cgi, your own website
should be the referring domain. If the browser of the surfer doesn't report any referring site, its pointless to send this surfer to a trade;
the trade won't know that the surfer came from you.
It is best to send these surfers to galleries, in an attempt to generate a sale

No Trade Traffic Handling
recommended setting: leave field empty
Surfers will come from many many different places to visit your site.
Your trades will provide the majority of your traffic, but search engines
and other indexing-type of sites will also send traffic your way.
Those domains - which aren't in your trades list - generated so called "no trade traffic".
Most Search Engine traffic also falls in this category.

No Trade Traffic Handling
recommended setting: leave field empty
Surfers will come from many many different places to visit your site.
Your trades will provide the majority of your traffic, but search engines
and other indexing-type of sites will also send traffic your way.
Those domains - which aren't in your trades list - generated so called "no trade traffic".
Most Search Engine traffic also falls in this category.

Extra out Traffic Handling
recommended setting: Trades first, then gallery
Once a surfer has seen all your trades, there are two options
Send him to galleries, or send him to a specific (exout) url.
Always change the default exout url, even when you set exout traffic to be send to galleries!

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