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Since my incredible upgrade to the LookSmart Small Business Listings, I have been tracking the traffic coming off of LookSmart and their partners.
Besides Yahoo! and Google, we receive little in the way of click-thoughs.
Last Month we clocked approx 30 incoming visits from the LookSmart network - and this month, after a measly five days and 27 clicks later LookSmart claims that I have reached my limit.
Well I have, but not with click-throughs - but with LookSmart themselves.
I track, trace and dissect our logs. they are EXTREMELY accurate and VERY thorough.
What does this post come down to?
LookSmart is CLAIMING that I've reached my limit - but this would be impossible according to a log that tracks another PPC service PERFECTLY.
How many of you guys have caught this as well - and what can be done with time-stamped proof?
"Looksmart is claiming that the discrepancies are do to their use of batch processing when tracking clicks"
Well then the service shouldn't have been launched and forced on to their current clientel.
This is how I perceive the whole situation:
I buy an apple. As I get halfway through the apple, enjoying it as much as one can enjoy an apple, the fruit vendor yanks it out of my hand and replaces it with a semi-ripe lemon refusing to give it back.
If this happened with any other business - there'd be apple sauce all over the place.
What's the precedent that this sets? THIS is what the public, not just the SE community, needs to understand.
How long until you install a new OS - and then the company decides that you have to pay every time you want to open a program within it?
If a sales technique makes money - then that's proof enough that it will be used, and used often.
This is a scary prospect.
Well MSFT took the first step in that direction with XP. I'm sure they will inch along to the point where you have to rent it so long as their political influence and lawyers continue to pave the way.
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