December 24, 2006 at 9:41 pm
#719903
Member
Just MHO….
I would avoid adbrite at all costs. A salesman contacted me about their new features, so I thought I’d give them a whirl. I set up one text ad and 2 banner exposures, set the max budget to $100 each, and geo-targeted them. My ads were pending approval when I checked them about 1 am on a weekday morning, checked them again about 9:30am the same day. They had maxed out all my budgets in about 8 hours, clicks on my text ads went straight to my page, not onespent more than 15 seconds on my site or had more than one page view. The banner ads went to the 7 sultans $50 free and blackjack ballroom $500 free play landing pages ( I used the stock banners for those promos, quite clear about what was being offered)
out of almost 700 clicks NOT ONE even download the software and played the free credits. $300 down the drain, maxed out in the wee hours of a weekday morning. At least Adster catches a good percentage of bad clicks and refunds them. There are some terrific “power” sites in the adbrite network, if you use them I strongly suggest buying the flat rate ads from these well-known sites. Following the referring urls led me to several sites whose sole purpose was to encourage click fraud. You can filter these sites kinda like on Adsense, but only after they’ve robed you blind. The rep told me he would have his fraud team look into it, but I haven’t heard anything and I’m not holding my breath.:angry: