I am very glad you finally listened to yourself and removed Focal.
You haven’t done anything with them in over a year – I remember the complaints at GPWA.
I continue to love them to death and found Frank’s advice most useful.
Spiral – I have started promoting them again, but I am just soooo unhappy with bare bone statistics. I don’t know about others, but I just need to see what I am doing with campaigns.
With bare bone stats you can’t see conversions from clicks to downloads to fun players to real players, and there is no way to judge the quality of traffic,. That is really bad these days as I am experimenting with new sources.
Also those stats that only record clicks and impressions on banners and textlinks served by them are annoying. I use a lot of plain links, I will write and have links in my own text and so on.
I don’t have any beef with conversions this time – although CR seems to have every player win.
I had removed bethedealer from just about everyplace because they stopped performing – long ago. But I kept a text link around and was very surprised to find a bunch of activity and players there all of a sudden.
Over time I am starting to see trends – sometimes one thing is “in” on my sites and sometimes another.