Looksmart Looklistings - good or bad?

metavisia · #1 (**permalink**) 12-16-2004, 05:54 AM

Hi, does anyone has experience with Looklistings? I've used them a couple of times, and the results were appalling. And I noticed something weird: they've reported 86 clicks for one of the days I've checked. I've got my own stats system, and it reported 80 clicks total! And of course, I don't advertise in Looksmart only, so they have only part of these 80 clicks reported by my system.
Which apparently shows... what, fraud? My system is well-tested, I've compared it with Google and other systems, it works fine. So, not only that Looklistings seems to be ineffective, but I also serious suspect fraud.

Anyone else here had experience with them, good or bad?

gregorym · #2 (**permalink**) 12-16-2004, 06:41 AM

Hi,

I have no feeback about this company im using almost exclusively Adwords and Overture (eventually espotting when in EU), anyway: Do you set up specific parameters in your URL to track your ppc campaigns ? What is the stats tool you're using ?

Gorgias · #3 (**permalink**) 12-20-2004, 09:01 PM

I had an bad experience with them several months back and have vowed not to get involved again. There are so many viable CPC advertising services available it's a shame the only ones we know anything about are the public companies. Two of my favorite privately owned PPCs are http://GenieKnows.com and http://7Search.com. All I ever hear about from anybody is Google and Overture and sometimes Findwhat.