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Thanks for the input.
Zeal is good, however, for those who qualify for non-commercial categories.
(edited by: skibum at 4:18 am (utc) on May 9, 2002)
My logs don't tally.
Make of it what you will.
I also placed $$ into the account and checked the clicks. 24 hours later the clicks had all been used up even though the site never appeared in MSN or looksmart. I then checked my logs and there wasn't a single click from L$ or their partners.
I then wrote in to L$ and surprisingly they answered within 24 hours only to give me the generic cut and paste answer about their click tracking etc. In this answer they even talk about the unreliablity of 3rd party tracking software.... My logs come directly from the server so this isn't the issue.
I then wrote back with the "additional funds received" email showing the date I added funds and then sent them a copy of my referrer logs. I can't wait to see what they say!
Have you tired doing this?
Good riddance and Bon Voyage L$.
I think that you can sue them.
It should be easy to proof it!
It seems to me they are acting like a snake businessman that is not showing the prices in the shop: when you ask for pricing you are asked to show your wallet! more you show, more you pay.
Not such a great deal then eh? Assuming of course that you are willing to deal with such a company in the first place.
I for one would never touch L$ again even with a 500 million mile long barge pole!
Looksmart are now in the "discount" stage of their dynamic gameplan. They are now offering "coupons" !!
They probably came up with that idea when the Dominos delivery man showed up at lunchtime and asked if they had one. They immediately called a high level board meeting (Dominos man attending in consultation) and made the executive decision.
They should have called in the RotoRooter man for consultation instead.
When L$ first went PPC, the email we recieved included a discount coupon. I believe the coupon has been there since the beginning.
We at least I used last month when I went ahead and activated the account.
Now that all the directory listings have said "forget you" my INK listings are sitting pretty. It's great.
Same here. :)
My email on 4/18 included a recommendation that I set my monthly budget to $3,600 based on the traffic performance.
This is just ONE of my clients' sites, and it is admittedly THE definitive site of its sort; the "official" site, as it were. For more than 2 years, it was the #1 result for the search term "money."
Right. That's what I want to pay for. NOT!
Oh, wait. That's not a positive story...sorry. Never mind. :)
I must tell you, though, that the site was supposedly removed from the database, it's still on the first page of MSN for that query. No drop. No penalty.
If they did, what was left would be a skeleton data base without much in it.
I was looking through their listings a couple of days ago, and the vast majority are old presumably grandfathered sites. We have a listing in there from 1998 :)
I say dont waste your money on Looksmart and if you have money to spend, better to spend it on Inktomi and Overture.
We got a few quotes for the big business programs but they were in january and februaury so they may not have been exactly the same. We didn't go for a full program because they were just too expensive for the clients who were interested. We did do a portion of it and spend a couple thousand getting extra url's listed with amazing results. I admit though, this was before the PPC so I don't know how the pricing or effectiveness will have changed.
