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Yet more recommendation testing
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this is a story
Here’s a game.
Here’s a filmstrip
Still testing indexing and recommendations on new pages
type stuff
This tests recommendations in 1.13
Here is another test of indexing
This is a new post to test indexing.
A test of a new post on production.
I’m adding some text to this.
This is to test if it goes to the top of the home page recommendations.
This is a new post on tuesday.
New test post published 9:30 AM on Tues, Nov 5.
This post was published at 5:45 on Monday Nov 4th. We’ll see how long it takes to get hearts.
Monday, Monday.
This is a sample post containing a story.
This comes after the short code. This is some more testing. Below is the shortcode for another story.
This is Britta’s story.
The Guild plugin allows publishers to designate any posts, pages or other content as exclusive. Exclusive content is only visible to Guild pass holders. Visitors that don’t own a Guild access pass will be able to see links or summaries of exclusive content but will not be able to view the exclusive content itself. Instead they will see a part of the post or page along with a link or button to purchase a pass. Essentially publishers can mark any content as exclusive and place it behind the Guild “paywall”.
So the question is what is the right content to make exclusive? Which should really be prefaced by “what is the motivation for making content exclusive?” There are typically two drivers for exclusive content.
Rewarding returning visitors (fans). Publishers may want to reward visitors to their site who have supported them by providing these visitors with exclusive fan content (behind the scenes videos, member only content, early access, etc.) aimed at rewarding their loyalty.
Converting new visitors. Alternatively publishers may want to make some of their most popular or in demand content exclusive to drive access pass purchases. Remember that publishers get an immediate piece of the access pass revenue for access passes purchased on their sites.
Exactly which strategy to follow will depend on the state of the site. New or emerging sites may opt for the latter to drive pass conversions and grow their customer base, whereas more established sites may choose the former to reward their existing customer. Inevitably a combination of both approaches will likely be necessary to optimize publisher revenue.
Guild is a new internet service that works on behalf of its members to generate revenue from visitors to any of the member websites. What Medium is doing for writers who publish on Medium’s site, we are doing for independent website publishers — collecting money from viewers and distributing it to publishers.
Welcome to the Guid demo website. Explore this site to see how the Guild plugin interacts with visitors who have not yet purchased an access pass. Remember that when trying Guild you can set the percent of traffic that the plugin will interact with. When the plugin decides not to interact with a visitor there will be no evidence of Guild anywhere on the site. On this page, the plugin is set to interact with all visitors.
Add Guild to your website. Once approved, our small Guild stamp will show up on the edge of your web pages.
For every visitor to your site with an access pass, you get paid. A pass can be purchased on any Guild member site and is valid for every Guild member site. In return, your site is required to meet a set of standards that ensure an excellent viewer experience.
For visitors who don’t have an access pass, we will occasionally demand their attention. When we do, we explain how Guild works and they can complete a purchase of an access pass with a few clicks. Don’t worry. We’re good at figuring out how and when to bother people just the right amount.
An access pass provides a visitor with the following:
An access pass is a one-time purchase of $1 per month. The net proceeds are distributed weekly to Guild members on a pro-rata basis according to content consumption by the pass holder for that week.
This is an example of a post that is exclusively available to Guild access pass holders. Open this post to see how Guild exclusive posts appear to visitors who haven not bought an access pass.
Adding Guild into your site is as easy as adding Google Analytics or an advertisement to your pages. You don’t have to make any changes to your site content or layout.
While you get comfortable with Guild, you can fence off any percentage of your traffic you want that we won’t touch.
Think about the earning potential from $1 each month from each of your site’s visitors. You will share this with other Guild sites that a visitor goes to — but that number is typically small. Then it just depends on steadily increasing the percentage of visitors with an access pass.
Maintaining the integrity of the Guild brand is vital to our success. We treat you and all viewers fairly and transparently. All of our financial transactions are handled using Stripe and Paypal.
This website is running the Guild plugin. Explore this site to see how the Guild plugin interacts with visitors who have not yet purchased a Guild access pass. See how the Guild tab (at the top right) behaves and also how the Guild plugin supports exclusive content.
Remember that when trying Guild you can set the percent of traffic that the plugin will interact with. When the plugin decides not to interact with a visitor there will be no evidence of Guild anywhere on the site. On this website, the plugin is set to interact with all visitors.
Guild is a new internet service that works on behalf of its members to generate revenue from visitors to any of the member websites. What Medium is doing for writers who publish on Medium’s site, we are doing for independent website publishers — collecting money from viewers and distributing it to publishers.
Anyone with a website can apply for membership but only those that meet our standards will be admitted, and we reserve the right to refuse membership to anyone even if they do meet those standards.
We apply a set of objective and subjective standards. The objective standards are based on an audit using Google’s Lighthouse tool for performance, responsiveness, and other factors. For some cases, such as specialized interactive sites, we may waive certain requirements. Our subjective standards are based mostly on a checklist covering things like offensive content, plagiarism, accessibility, etc. We make a final acceptance decision solely at our own discretion to protect Guild’s reputation.
No. We will be frequently reviewing Guild member sites to ensure that they are continuing to meet our standards. If we uncover problems, we will notify you and you may lose your membership.
Yes. In fact we encourage sites to use the latest web technologies to create the best possible experience for visitors. You are not constrained by many of the rules that ad networks impose on publisher sites. You are required, however, to ensure that the Guild experience for visitors is not affected by your site — i.e., that Guild paywall pages and the Guild stamp are visible to visitors in the expected way.
You get 35% of the net proceeds from all visitors who purchase a pass on your site. And you share in 50% of the net proceeds from all visitors to your site who have a Guild pass. Guild retains the remaining 15% as a fee to run the network.
Assuming about the same number of visitors who purchased passes on your site visit other sites as the number of visitors to your site that purchased a pass elsewhere, this means that you will earn about 85% of the net proceeds from passes purchased on your site.
Let’s say that a visitor purchases a 3-month pass on your site for $3.00. The net proceeds (after credit card transaction fees) is $2.61. Guild takes a 15% fee, and if the assumptions described above are accurate, you will end up with the remainder — $0.91 immediately and an additional $0.43 per month over the next three months.
Estimate the fraction of your visitors who will purchase a pass. Then multiply this by your monthly unique visitor count.
Yes. As Guild grows, and therefore the value of an access pass grows along with it, we expect to increase the access fees. Our goal is that as membership grows, earnings for all members should be growing modestly at the same time.
We may eventually do that. But recurring transactions add complexity in a visitor’s decision making process. And while Guild pricing is changing, we concluded that it is premature to offer this option now.
Eventually we hope this will be the case, but don’t count on it. As a Guild member, you will be working in a consortium with other members. The Guild reputation will eventually result in consumers seeking out sites that are members. But it is better for you to think about Guild membership as being a way to monetize the visitors you are already getting.
The value of your content is reflected in the number of visitors you have and how engaged they are. This is already reflected in your share of the Guild proceeds.
Distributions are calculated monthly and will by distributed to your Paypal account each month as long as your balance is at least $5 on your statement processing date. Smaller amounts remain in your balance and roll over to the following month.
When you register your site, you have options about how we will (or won’t) interact with your visitors.
You can choose what fraction of your visitors to expose to Guild. You can start with a very low percentage and see how these people react to your Guild membership before exposing more. You might start, for example, with only 5% of your visitors. The other 95% will not see the Guild stamp on your pages and will never know that you are part of Guild.
Mostly. Guild complies with the General Data Privacy Requirements. We do not collect, track, or store individual data without explicit opt-in consent. We protect all data securely. And every user has the right to have data we are holding about them deleted. For more information, see our privacy policy.
Guild was created and is operated by Hivepoint, Inc., a startup company located in Palo Alto, California.
Contact us via email at support@guild.network.
Guild is a new internet service that works on behalf of its members to generate revenue from visitors to any of the member websites. What Medium is doing for writers who publish on Medium’s site, we are doing for independent website publishers — collecting money from viewers and distributing it to publishers.