Waddup
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- Nov 23, 2011
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Truly, did not want to go there but after a couple of weeks and testing several different Cloakers here is my take on Trafficshield.
First and foremost, Avoid 2000%. That is if you want to keep your accounts running.
Not going to make a long story short but will of course provide the needed proof.
As some know, I have been on a Facebook venture, and with that comes checking out what cloaking services work well, so far I have been using hide. click in combination with Keitaro, which works well. Another I have been testing with is Cloakerly, the bleed rate is a bit higher but all in all it's a pretty decent solution.
Decided to test out Trafficshield as well, since it was mentioned here and in the beginning, the bleed rate was low, and solid until I noticed Ireland passing through even though it is blocked in the settings on my campaigns at Trafficshield.
If anything, a country should be blocked right? Luckily for me my campaign was somewhat on the whitehat side but did enter a manual review.
Mentioned this to support, and the results on that were that WordPress is not fully supported.
Maybe I'm retarded but it says so on their own page.
Since I am running almost all mobile traffic I figured WordPress is not that great for speed in that regard, but it's great to build quick pages and white pages and so forth.
Further down the line had the same experience with PHP and JAVA, so they basically had no clue what they were talking about, or at least the dude from support, who seems to be just one person in general.
Just to show proof as I am making these claims here are two examples.
Ended up setting my own redirect right in Voluum tracking itself, also for desktop and a bunch of other shit Trafficshield does not seem to "Shield" at all.
Things broke down a few days later as well causing me a small loss but was compensated with 2 months free premium. (Support took hours)
TODAY, and the reason for posting this is that TODAT these guys cost me well over a thousand bucks, (indirectly). Keep in mind it's always a risk to go with whatever cloaking there is out there, I just so happened to still have campaigns running there I did not want to switch.
Things were fine until a huge dip happened.
As you can see here.
Besides a huge account risk here and prob about a loss of 1k from 5 am until about 1 pm, I of course went to their live support which claims to be always available just to get this response.
Turns out their entire support was at a festival, but a fix would come tomorrow. (With all respect to all cultures and understanding that there are festivals and happenings that are meant to be attended too, but that should not at all come as a loss to the clients using them, if there even are any.)
Yes, I for real thought this was a joke of sorts.
In the screenshot I posted above (The Voluum tracking) you can see that my campaign recovered, however, this was not due to Trafficshield as they just left me hanging in support after a promise they would fix it)
The campaign was quickly moved to Cloakerly for the time being, and so far it's much better.
If you plan on offering cloaking, please understand you are putting people's money on the line. This campaign happened to be a few k a day, but I got others running much higher.
In my own words and advice, NEVER ever use Trafficshield for anything.
The ONLY thing it is going to SHIELD you from is making money.
First and foremost, Avoid 2000%. That is if you want to keep your accounts running.
Not going to make a long story short but will of course provide the needed proof.
As some know, I have been on a Facebook venture, and with that comes checking out what cloaking services work well, so far I have been using hide. click in combination with Keitaro, which works well. Another I have been testing with is Cloakerly, the bleed rate is a bit higher but all in all it's a pretty decent solution.
Decided to test out Trafficshield as well, since it was mentioned here and in the beginning, the bleed rate was low, and solid until I noticed Ireland passing through even though it is blocked in the settings on my campaigns at Trafficshield.
If anything, a country should be blocked right? Luckily for me my campaign was somewhat on the whitehat side but did enter a manual review.
Mentioned this to support, and the results on that were that WordPress is not fully supported.
Maybe I'm retarded but it says so on their own page.
Since I am running almost all mobile traffic I figured WordPress is not that great for speed in that regard, but it's great to build quick pages and white pages and so forth.
Further down the line had the same experience with PHP and JAVA, so they basically had no clue what they were talking about, or at least the dude from support, who seems to be just one person in general.
Just to show proof as I am making these claims here are two examples.
Ended up setting my own redirect right in Voluum tracking itself, also for desktop and a bunch of other shit Trafficshield does not seem to "Shield" at all.
Things broke down a few days later as well causing me a small loss but was compensated with 2 months free premium. (Support took hours)
TODAY, and the reason for posting this is that TODAT these guys cost me well over a thousand bucks, (indirectly). Keep in mind it's always a risk to go with whatever cloaking there is out there, I just so happened to still have campaigns running there I did not want to switch.
Things were fine until a huge dip happened.
As you can see here.
Besides a huge account risk here and prob about a loss of 1k from 5 am until about 1 pm, I of course went to their live support which claims to be always available just to get this response.
Turns out their entire support was at a festival, but a fix would come tomorrow. (With all respect to all cultures and understanding that there are festivals and happenings that are meant to be attended too, but that should not at all come as a loss to the clients using them, if there even are any.)
Yes, I for real thought this was a joke of sorts.
In the screenshot I posted above (The Voluum tracking) you can see that my campaign recovered, however, this was not due to Trafficshield as they just left me hanging in support after a promise they would fix it)
The campaign was quickly moved to Cloakerly for the time being, and so far it's much better.
If you plan on offering cloaking, please understand you are putting people's money on the line. This campaign happened to be a few k a day, but I got others running much higher.
In my own words and advice, NEVER ever use Trafficshield for anything.
The ONLY thing it is going to SHIELD you from is making money.