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Skimming
Description
There are three skim types available:
- Default skim,
- Internal skim,
- External skim.
Skim is already set to default skim for all outgoing links on your site. You can set ”internal skim” for individual trades or system trades (any or all) and it will outpower “default skim” for those trades. If you set ”external skim” ( s=X directly in the outgoing link ) it will also have priority over “default skim” (but not over “internal skim”).
Default skim
Default skim is a general skim for your website and it affects all outgoing links on your site except those, where “external” skim is set. “Default skim” is set to 100 by default - to modify it, navigate to Tools / Default skim, enter the preferred skim pattern and click Save.
If you have internal skim set,it will outpower both default and external skim.
Internal skim
You can set internal skim inside “Admin interface” for each trade and system trade individually. Navigate to the Overview menu, click Edit icon for any trade or system trade and you can set skim pattern in Advanced accordion. You can enter for example: 100,75,65
To manage skimming efficiently, we advise you to enable Skim pattern column in Overview. Open Interface manager, select an interface or create a new one (
skim pattern parameter in the “Main” section of “Customize interface” window. This will not only allow you to view skim patterns for all your trades, but you will be able to change skim settings for desired trades using Quick edit option - simply click on the respective table cell in the “Skim pattern” column and edit the trade.
External skim
External skim has to be set directly in the outgoing link. Here is an example of the skim pattern set directly in the outgoing link: /te3/out.php?s=100,75,65&u=http://www.google.com/
“External skim” has priority over “default skim”, but not over “internal skim”. Therefore, if both are set at the same time, “external” skim will get ignored unless es=1 parameter is set in the outgoing link in addition to the “external” skim parameter s=X.
Examples
Skim pattern examples apply for all three types of skimming - “default”, “internal” and “external” - alike.
| Skim pattern | Description |
|---|---|
| 75 | There is 75% probability surfer will be sent to a gallery behind u= parameter and 25% probability surfer will be sent to a trade. |
| 100,75,65 | 1st click 100% to gallery, 2nd click 75% to gallery, 3rd and all further clicks 65% to gallery. |
| 100,75,65:* | This is a repeated skim pattern: 1st click 100% to gallery, 2nd click 75% to gallery, 3rd click 65% to gallery. Skim pattern starts from the beginning again: 4th click 100% to gallery, 2nd click 75% to gallery, 3rd and all further clicks 65% to gallery and so on… |
| 100,75,65,50:2 | This is a partially repeated skim pattern: 1st click 100% to gallery, 2nd click 75% to gallery, 3rd click 65% to gallery, 4th click 50% to gallery. Skim pattern will now repeat the last two values over and over again: 5th click 65% to gallery, 6th click 50% to gallery and so on… to gallery and so on… |
If you are using “Trade Expert” in combination with “Smart Thumbs” and you would like to use “external skim”, use dots instead of commas in the skim pattern, because commas don't work properly with Smart Thumbs. For “internal” skim pattern it doesn't matter whether you use commas or dots.