About

Driven Traffic Bidding is a pay-to-rank leaderboard. There is no algorithm, no editorial ranking, and nothing to earn through engagement — your position is simply your bid. Enter a product URL or an @handle, pick a category, add a 728×90 banner, and place a bid. The higher you bid, the higher your banner sits. Every price is unique, so there are no ties — and each bid is its own spot, so you can place as many as you like.

Not just placement here. A single bid puts your banner on this board and, through our embed network, on participating third-party and affiliate sites that host our ad slots — at no extra cost and with no future purchase required. One bid, broader reach; clicks from anywhere in the network are tracked back to your listing.

How it works

• Each bid is its own spot. Place as many as you like; the same URL or handle can appear more than once.
• Every price is unique. You can't bid an amount already on the board, so ranking is never ambiguous.
• Rank is derived, not stored. Positions come straight from bid amounts — most expensive at the top, always.
• Views & clicks are public. Impressions, clicks, and click-through rate show under every banner so the traffic a rank delivers is visible to all.
• Categories are separate races. Each category has its own ranking alongside the global board.

Placement & syndication

Beyond this board, banners can be syndicated to partner sites. A site owner drops in a small snippet — a server-side PHP include (which inlines the creative so it serves seamlessly from their own page) or a JavaScript tag — and it renders a live ad drawn from the top of the pool. Slots can be set to always show #1 or to rotate randomly across the top N, optionally filtered to a category. Clicks always route back through us so they're logged and attributed to the listing.

Placement term & cycling

A placement isn't forever — it runs for a term that scales with your bid (pay more, stay longer), and entries cycle out oldest-first as they age. How fast the board cycles depends on how many ads are active: when only a handful are running, each stays in rotation much longer; when hundreds are competing, they cycle out faster. So your time on the board is an estimate, not a fixed date — it stretches when the board is quiet and shortens when it's busy.

When an entry cycles out, its price is released back into the pool, so the board stays fresh and the same price can be won again later. There's a short grace period before it drops, and you can renew at any time to place again. Rank itself is always purely your bid — aging only affects when an entry retires, never its position while it's up.

About this build

This is a self-hosted, local demonstration clone of the pay-to-rank format. It runs on a classic LAMP stack — Apache, MariaDB, and PHP — with Redis caching in front of a read-heavy leaderboard. Entries are gated behind a single PayPal payment — a placement goes live only once its payment is captured (a local “simulate payment” path stands in when PayPal credentials aren’t configured). Accounts are protected with mandatory two-factor authentication, and all input is handled with prepared statements, output escaping, and CSRF protection.

Rank is the bid — nothing else.