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Old 05-02-2006, 08:29 PM  
edgeprod
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Then, amusingly, the guy who originally told me about the fraud (a guy who works for AskJolene) came into the thread, trying to mediate. Immediately, other peopl who got scammed posted THEIR results:

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well I don't see much changeing, 1372 clicks with 22 click thrus, no sales, that's not a very good ctr!
And then a few GFY threads:

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=465353

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=473701

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=477038

Then more people chimed in:

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well so far
Clicks used 13840
Clicks to Sponsor 196

no sales.
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One campaign is 4247 hits and 89 click thru's
thats a click thru rate of 2%. When I was submitting galleries that I built a couple months ago, I was getting about 40% with tgp traffic.
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thanx, right now, here's some numbers
15994 clicks served
187 click thrus
Just over 1% CTR
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thanx, right now, here's some numbers
15994 clicks served
187 click thrus
Just over 1% CTR
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If everyone is having the same issues, the problem is with AJ.
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14 galleries
teen niche
nubile webmaster program
35,265 clicks from AskJolene
615 click thru's
CTR=>2%
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I loaded some new galleries for tomorrow, this is not good for CTR
Amusingly, this was for all "new" business -- they couldn't handle it, so (as the source inside the company told me), they just used hitbots and other crap to fabricate the clicks, eating through the budgets like crazy.

Glad to see it isn't happening "now," but shit -- what would stop them? They BANNED the IP's of people who were complaining -- in my case, they KEPT some of my money, too.

It's funny to go back and look at this .. and see how many people didn't do business with them, or stopped doing business with them, because of it.

Pierre -- I'm sure you've gone in there and cleaned shit up! Do you have any feedback on how the riff-raff have been cleaned out of AJ, and you're all on the up-and-up now? ICQ me so we can talk, or post here.
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