Genie Knows CPC

I second that. I will pay anyone for managing a PPC if they can show an ROI for it.

with all the fraud talk last month – I am pretty reluctant to try out yet another PPC; however I am curious as well.

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Brian-

Thanks for the feedback on this one. I’m not even going to bother to test them now, since it sounds like you’ve already done the hard work.

I would not send this group ANY money and let me explain why. When i first started i put in $50 and selected some top key words like blackjack and went for positions like 5-12 with click rates from .45-.79 (79 cents).

Went thru the $50 in one day but the funny thing is I could never see my adds in any position. It was explained to me that I could not see my adds as they were only being shown to US, UK and Australian surfers but they would correct it.

They were going to correct is so I put another $50 (no truly making the fools list) and the revenue started going fast and still I could not see the adds, they informed me they had not added the Netherlands Antilles list but would do so.

To save some cash to do a test i dropped all of my bids to 10 cents figuring if the 10th position was at 90 cents that i would be so far back that I would not get any hits and I added some not as popular key words to spread out the length of my test.

Wasn’t I surprised that within that same day, today I show 114 clicks at the word blackjack at ten cents, that is more than twice I had when my bid was over 50 cents.

My thoughts are that this is a program built on people who are paid to click on links and this is a warning to all.

I hope others will share similiar situations so we can drive these programs away from our industry.

Brian

Ahhh so are you saying the only way they prosper is to BE in the fraud loop? Probably and sadly true!

Yes, but then where would they get clicks to charge people for?

LOL

If these programs want to prevent fraud they need to do away with their affiliate programs which pay affiliates for producing clicks! Pay them a base fee for carrying your feeds or something like that – but dont pay based on clicks! SIMPLE no?

I think that would cut out 95%+ of click fraud …

When I test a PPC engine, I send the traffic directly to a casino so I can get a real handle on whether or not the traffic converts. As near as I can tell, there’s no other real way to track the effectiveness of the PPC. I don’t start sending traffic to any of my portals until I’ve achieved a level of confidence by sending traffic straight to a specific profile for a casino and seen what I consider reasonable conversions.

I keep re-trying Findwhat, and it just keeps getting worse. Goclick’s been sliding downhill dramatically. It’s a discouraging situation, so most nights I spend working on getting links and building content. (Or playing poker.)

Hi,

I’ve been using them but couldn’t tell you whether they are good or not;

I just switched to a new PC and as usual I didn’t backup (what is that?) so I’m going thru what is becoming my annual “remember site addresses and passwords” festival. between that and going to vegas, and a couple other pressing irons in the fire; and I’ve not had time to give it the attention it deserves.

seems like I never got enough traffic from them to worry much about it; maybe I’ve been out of funds all this time and didn’t know it; but I think I’ve been running on the same deposit for about 3 months now.

*I never bid high at places I don’t know much about; my thinking being that maybe I’ll avoid the bulk of the fraud and since I’ve a large list of keywords, perhaps I’ll catch a real person here and there by way of them typing in a keyword nobody else has bid on.

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I will patiently await your findings and save an eye – for now.