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-Advertisements
-
-Last modified: 2011-04-10
-Status: Implemented / Implementation may differ from these notes
-
-
-Idea: (semi-)large "Buy now" / "Download now" button on VN pages, linking
-either to the product on a webshop or displaying a dropdown list with
-available releases with links to webshops.
-
-A link to a webshop only appears if it has at least one release of the VN on
-their site, and the link always points directly to the product page, not to
-the search function or the homepage.
-
-A webshop link is internally linked to a release in the database, so we have
-all kinds of information including whether it's a download or package, and in
-what language it is.
-
-Preferably, the link also indicates the price and whether it is in stock.
-
-
-Possible parties interested in advertising:
-- J-List
- Has an affiliate system that includes direct links
- doesn't store JAN/UPC/catalog numbers
-- Play-asia
- Has an affiliate system that includes direct links
- stores JAN, UPC, and catalog numbers
-- DLSite English
- Has an affiliate system that includes direct links
- Most releases don't even have a JAN code or catalog number
-- MangaGamer
- Rather specific "shop", but could count as one.
- Has no affiliate system, but is planning to add one, as announced in
- http://mangagamer.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/holidays-passing/
- Releases don't have catalog numbers or EAN codes
-- PaletWeb
- Has no affiliate system
- Does have JAN codes for a few titles, but inconsistent
- Rather messy website... finding/updating links will be a chore
-- CDJapan
- Doesn't have that many VNs from what I've browsed, but still several
- Has an affiliate system (seems to include direct links)
- Has catalog numbers for most (all?) releases
-- Hendane!
- Does not seem to have many VNs (3 or 4?)
- Has no affiliate system
- Does not have JAN or catalog numbers
-- Himeyashop / Erogeshop (out of business?)
- Has no affiliate system but has shown interest in link exchanges in the past
- Does not store JAN/UPC/catalog numbers
- "Temporarily" closed, so probably not a good time to ask for ads?
-- Eroge-Europe.com (out of business?)
- Seems to have an affiliate system, haven't really looked at it yet
- Does not store JAN/UPC/catalog numbers
-
-
-So who is going to update all those links?
-Three possibilities:
-
-1. Automatically
- By matching JAN/EAN/UPC or catalog numbers from our database with the
- information on the webshop, and fetching the information necessary for the
- links.
- Since Play-asia is the only one storing that kind of information, this
- will be rather specific. We can't really expect all other parties to
- update their system, and for DLSite and MangaGamer it would involve
- creating (official) catalog numbers for each entry - which would be easy
- for MG, but certainly not for DLSite.
- Even if a shop stores it, we'd need fast and up-to-date access to it. We
- have several thousand JAN codes in the database. If we want to make sure
- our information is accurate and up-to-date we'd have to check for the
- availability of each release each day. Doing this will most likely require
- the other party to update their site with an API providing this
- information. I somehow doubt they would...
-
-2. Let the advertiser add and update the info
- Add an admin interface to the site allowing advertisers to add links to
- their shop to release entries - also allowing them to indicate the price
- and stock availability.
- Since advertisers benefit from these links, we can assume that, if they
- agree to do this, they will keep the info up-to-date.
- However, for some reason I don't think many advertisers would want to
- invest that much time in advertising on a single site.
- Instead of the advertiser itself, it would also be possible to look for a
- dedicated user to do this for them. Though somehow I doubt we'd find
- someone like that, and I don't feel like doing that myself.
-
-3. Let our users add and update the info
- Add webshop links to release entries. Since the price and stock
- availability tend to change over time and our dear users are either pretty
- slow on the uptake or too lazy to update VNDB, we can forget about any
- other information besides the links. :-(
- It might, however, be possible to automatically fetch the price and stock
- information anyway since we have the URLs, but in that case the webshop
- should either allow us to crawl quite a lot or provide an alternative
- method.
- Since the list of webshops we link to is not a static one - shops can be
- added or removed after a while - we can expect these links to be edited
- quite often, which could make a mess with the edit histories.
- Alternatively, we could do it VGMdb-like: allow users to simply manage
- links where the release is sold, regardless of whether they are
- advertising on VNDB or not. This would still make it possible to
- special-case advertisers and give them special treatment or fetch
- additional information.
-