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I hear ya bb1webs, I’ve read a lot of your posts- they’ve made a difference in which sponsors I’ve picked.
My main concern with gambling is where to get quality paid advertising. In my experience with rx, only Google and Overture are worth paying for- the others suck – as far as PPC goes. Maybe there is a difference with gambling, but I wouldn’t mind other forms like a high traffic site that is directed at gamblers or a similar demographic (if there even are good demographics on gamblers online?), should anyone have suggestions.
Just dunno how I’m going to promote it, I was told and can see that my timing is not so great for gambling, but whatever.
fuze
fuze, you’re on the right track, trust me. Everything else sucks – trouble is, if you can’t buy Google or Overture advertising any more, you have to find something else.
Hi,
Hopefully with the loss of google / overture / findwhat ‘s results many of the partner sites that provided them their gambling traffic – will get smart and jump to a different aff program that IS paying for gambling traffic searches, which in theory should bring up the value of most of the smaller PPCs – those not cheating us on purpose that is.
this remains to be seen but I think in the long run that people are going to start looking someplace else for their results (especially at google) when they type in online casino and get nearly no results returned except for free results.
Now some of you may say so what? But I’ve become all too aware recently of what google has been programming us all to do all along…
I look straight to the paid ads for what I want. *most the time. Because if I am looking for red wagons; the way their current return of results is set up; is I have learned I have a better result by choosing the paid ads than to use the free ones. I mean, if I want a product supplied by a company I expect to be around and back up its 1 yr warranty; I’ll choose the paid ads over the free returned results every time.
What I’ve learned about using google and free search is to expect to be bombarded with popups, redirected to some place I already know about and don’t like, or get a page so far off my desired result that its pop up ads don’t even come close to what I needed.
where as the paid ads don’t have popups; or if they do its only one, and you can bet they’re usually pretty targeted results.
So now if I were to go look up something on google and didn’t get any paid results that suited my needs; I would likely look further before surrendering to their free results.
I didn’t really realize all this until very recently, and I bet its very subtle in many surfer’s minds, but never-the-less it is there. And I think it will begin to show as more of them realize there aren’t any paid ads for our keywords which suit their needs. I think a good piece of them will look somewhere else instead of using the free returned results.
Maybe that’s just wishfull thinking….
Thanks bb1webs!
The horror and pure greed in the pharmacy industry isn’t solely RX Medical Network (for anyone who doesn’t know, the website went down for a month, they didn’t notify any affiliates, and then payment was delayed)
Buy Meds – They lied to affiliates and patients alike, pretending that they had a ‘legal model’ where they would bill a patient a fee for a doctor’s visit that never happened. They then refused to refund those customers. Affiliates were misled into believing these relationships were real. They also have huge amounts owing to many affiliates.
USA Prescription – They’ve kept on operatingand accepting affiliates as if business is normal… but they never send out payments!
Hope Mills Universal – The most popular pharmacy, but they use every excuse in the book to steal commissions. If you used to promote them and then send traffic to a different pharmacy they will steal your refill commission. They change prices without notifying affiliates… and that’s a drop in the bucked.
There’s a lot more that I cant think of at the moment.
Meanwhile in the casino industry I’ve seen as many crooks but in a period of 4 years versus 6 months. Stay away from anyone powered by http://www.gamblingsoftware.com (they refuse to pay affiliates, licensees, and some players) starnetc casinos, US sports casino.
Flash or java only casinos are more likely to steal from you since they are easier to produce and are more likely to be a fly by night operation.
Also, concerning traffic sources. I’ve personally given up on any PPC for gambling terms. I’ve tried without a positive ROI to advertise in Gambling Online Magazine. The only other offline advertising i did was in Hustler Canada. I had a great income that month but I”m not sure if the results were tied to the ad buy.
Antoine
Hi,
Fergie, where in the H E double hockey sticks did you run onto that article?
nice find. and certainly no surprise.
Hopefully with the loss of google / overture / findwhat ‘s results many of the partner sites that provided them their gambling traffic – will get smart and jump to a different aff program that IS paying for gambling traffic searches, which in theory should bring up the value of most of the smaller PPCs – those not cheating us on purpose that is.
This is very true. The same amount of traffic as always is out there. It is just a matter of catching it again.
It would be interesting to locate the people who supplied traffic to these engines – if any of you are reading this – pm me – I’ll buy it.
