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Old 09-01-2008, 09:23 PM
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Default Re: Findology, Traffic Emporium and BuyHitsCheap review

Excellent suggestion Caretaker. I would like to give the thread an update but I cannot edit it. I will however tell you some of my findings.

Traffic Emporium
I'm on the 9000th hit on Traffic Emporium out of a total of 10000 hits ordered. If you look at the TE pic you'll notice there is the number 30 on the right. This means the hits will have a duration of 30 days. Don't start your calculations yet. Most of these hits are not being registered. Every 3, 4 or 5 days a huge spike of hits gets registered on TE, but not on my offer. When I say huge I mean 500 hits being registered all at once. Jeff tells you to check the raw logs to confirm that they have been indeed delivered, but this is useless since the hits are not going through and being stick on the network's stats.

Having the above in mind you can start to understand how a small number of hits are going through to your offer, or offers through TE. You can have as low as a couple of hits per day, making it not so different than Buy Hits Cheap. TE is expired domain traffic but there isn't enough transparency being shown here. Jeff should have at least answered my emails AFTER I registered for the service, you know never who's going to post your business review online. It allows for one URL only. The only way around this is with a php rotator script that will either randomly or orderly rotate the links to your offers each time an hit is assigned to the url consisting of the php script.



Buy Hits Cheap
Still have some regional credits there, low, poor and unreliable source of traffic. It does have a lot of customization though, you can add as many campaigns as you like, set a daily and an hourly limit. You can use this if you only have one url and do not mind receiving few hits a day.



Findology
Probably the source of traffic I'm going to stick from now on. Cost Per View. Pop under traffic. It is not very user friendly though. There is an option to geo target it and add or remove categories, and others. I suggest that you only add one category to your url. Even with this, depending on the campaign/link you open, you can have a lot, and I mean a lot of traffic bursting into it. You have to watchout. Never let any campaign run for more than 10 minutes. It's very easy to go get in trance mode reading stuff on BHW only to go back and see you already had +100 clicks on a specific campaign. Each click is 1 cent, 100 clicks, 1 dollar. It doesn't seem much but it starts to add if you're running more than one campaign and get distracted.

In contrast, there are other campaigns that will have very little hits. If you have more than one url, you will probably notice how some campaigns can add a lot of clicks fast and some others rarely go past 5 clicks throughout the entire day. Remember that this is pop under traffic.

You can limit the hits to 24 or 48 within an hour, however this is CRAP from LE BULL. I can be 20 minutes away from the PC only to come back and see a 48 hits per hour limit campaign have 133 clicks in it. So it definetely goes over the limit. Having discussed this with my account manager, Carey (I wonder how hot or un-hot she is, and I wonder if it is indeed a woman's name - ever heard of Dana?), she came with some sort of technical and randomly vague explanation for this and told me my campaigns are now on the lowest possible speed. This makes the speedy campaigns a bit slower and the slower campaigns DEADLY slower. To fix this, try adding more categories to your slower campaigns, and possibly bidding higher than $0.01 (try $0.02 and see how it goes).



Conversion talk
MrNoob you had pop under traffic converting? Maybe you're using their PPC service? I'm discussing CPViews here and I never had any conversion in all of the hits I've run. Maybe I'm just having bad luck but can you tell me how you're having conversions? Are you using any redirection in the links you're posting as campaigns?

Cpamaster
I'd like you to explain better some of the experiences networks you mentioned if you can find some for it.
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