Excuse me for involving myself in your discussion, but after reading this thread I am disgusted by this whole business.
I’ve written an email to the CEO of GoClick, and received a reply, to which I’ve responded. No reply back to that yet, but I’ll post what I have below.
Right here, I have a question.
Here is a sample from my logs:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)”
84.90.19.237 – – [22/Sep/2004:21:40:08 -0400] “GET /CBLASTERS.htm HTTP/1.1” 200 2689 “-” “
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)”
84.90.19.237 – – [22/Sep/2004:21:40:12 -0400] “GET /CBLASTERS.htm HTTP/1.1” 200 2689 “-” “
Same IP, and the times are 5-7 seconds apart. There are gifs on the page that were not showing as downloading. Is this an example of a “bot”?
Okay, here are the emails between myself and GoClick:
Original Message
From: Elizabeth
To: [email protected] ; [email protected]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 3:12 PM
Subject: My outrage and disgust about my ad dollars!!
Hi,
Regarding these threads, I can’t see spending any more cash until I can be assured my money is going for legitimate clicks and viewers.
Since GoClick is at the top of the list, that means NOT!!
This behavior is making me more furious the more I read. And if you’re legit, it should do the same to you.
http://www.supertop100.com:81/ppc/r0.shtml
http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=24928
http://www.marketingcynic.com/ppcfraud/
http://www.createasite4u.com/ptr.php?r=
http://www.createyourgetpaid.com/
http://cashcrusader.myecom.net/
Regards,
Elizabeth
From GoClick
Hi Elizabeth —
I understand your concern — our job is to keep this poor quality traffic out of your feed, which is our top goal. If you are not happy, we are not happy.
Bottom line, if our quality were to be dragged down by having poor quality traffic as you read about in these threads, we would not have advertisers. If advertisers don’t make more money than they spend with us, they don’t return… which means we don’t make money.
We have been in business nearly 4 years and have over 24,000 advertisers. We would not be here if we were involved in these traffic quality situations described below.
-John
From me again
Hi John,
Thank you for your response.
For those of you who make a living at this, no doubt you have been aware of this all along. However, I have not known about any of this until recently.
Since hearing and reading about this fraud perpetrated on advertisers, I have been doing a lot of reading, and I am truly horrified by what I am seeing. Millions and millions of dollars going for clicks that generate nothing to the one footing the bill.
I’m sure you don’t mean to deny there is a problem here, and I’d really like to know what steps you take to give the advertiser some assurance that money spent is not going to these thieves.
Thanks,
Elizabeth
I, personally, got the impression I was being patted on the head or something. Maybe I just was misreading, or just took what he said the wrong way.
Elizabeth