Kanoodle traffic useless?

[mktplace]

Some of my keywords are starting to get competitive, and I found them over at Kanoodle for only 5 cents. . . but have read that anything other than Adwords and Overtures are a click-fraud nightmare.

I set up a specific landing page, where all the Kannodle traffic came, and sent over 1500 clicks to it over a 7 day period. On the page were links back to the main site, a coded link to the product I was selling, and Google Adsense (the page looked like any other page, except I used a specific channel on this page).

Of the 3000+ clicks, 1 clicked through to the product(but did not buy), and 2933 exited the site - NONE of them via an Adsense ad (on average, about 9%-14% of the folks leaving my site click on an Adsense ad), the rest presuambly clicked on another internal link.

1. Is this a big enough sample ($150 - 3000 clicks over 7 days) to judge the trend?

2. Does anyone have a positive experience with Kanoodle (or Findwhat, etc.) that doesn't point to these terrible types of numbers?

[mktplace]

Is anyone here using Kanoodle or Findwhat successfully?

Please let us hear about your success stories, or bombs.

[ctabuk]

Mostly 'bombs' I'm afraid - Now some PPC campaigns can work in a reverse sort of way. I'll explain.
Go to www.Mama.com and do a small ppc there. Last time I visited they had a $25 worth of free hits. Now I'm in the UK, so why on earth do a PPC on a USA SE? - Dead easy, Mama is Teoma, Ask Jeeves is Teoma and I found that by having a ppc at mama I got a listing on Teoma, I've been top on Ask Jeeves for 2 years now. It may not work for you, but it's sure worth a try. So are www.7search.com & www.Turbo10.com.

[nottheusual1]

We've used both. We found the conversion rate was lower (order=conversion), hinting at lower quality click-thru's, but get more than enough business via their service to stick with them for 2 years now. Especially considering the lower-lower-lower cost of clicks.

I think a lot of it has to do with your product/target audience - broad reaching products to a large demographic may do better than niche products that have an audience that is 90% "Googler's". We gave it a try because of the relatively low cost to kick the tires.

I was of the original opinion that if it wasn't one of the big guys that it was "snake-oil", but was very wrong. Our aquisition cost per order on the second/third tier is much lower, but so is the sales volume versus the big guys. Nice extra business.

:not_the_usual
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