Something is looking "funny" with Kanoodle

600 Clicks? That do not register in the sites logs!

[Arik11]

Here is my mail to them that will explain it all:
It has been some kind of experience trying Kanoodle service- an
experience we are not likely to try again.
It seems somewhat peculiar if not strange that some 600 charged
clicks over the period of 3-4 days have turned up 0 follow up requests
while 14 clicks over the period of 30 days with Google's addword
program using the exact same phrases and key words have turned 8
follow up requests.
Non of our web stats logs nor counters show 600 visits to our site.
As our account reaches zero founds you may go ahead and close it.

[edited by: seth_wilde at 3:04 pm (utc) on Sep. 21, 2005]

[TheGuyAboveYou]

Kanoodle is garbage! The only reason they are in business is because the internet grows at such fast pace there is always a fresh supply of newbies. If there wasn't they would have been out of business by now.

Don't listen to their sales reps either.

[readforum]

I also had no leads from Kanoodle. I contacted them to complain. They claimed it was because I was getting worldwide traffic but was based in the UK. I do however, take orders for other countries!

They decided to limit me to clicks from the UK to prevent fraud. Since then I have gone from 50 a day to 5 a day!

Regards

Dilip Sinha

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[edited by: tedster at 9:48 pm (utc) on Aug. 21, 2005]

[luckychucky]

Lesson to learn:
Thinking of using the services of any new company? Do a little homework first, before you sign up. WebmasterWorld's a great place to start. 'Kanoodle Sucks' is an ancient and oft-repeated refrain around here...

[glh1309]

Kanoodle blew thru $100 in two days, claiming hundreds of clicks, and my logs show nothing referred from them at all. Looks like a total fraud.

[shiva777]

Yes Kanoodle has a reputation for funny stats....

~shiva

[ember]

Kanoodle is a total rip off, although when I complained that $50 worth of clicks brought not one sale , whereas it would have brought several on OT or Google, they did refund the rest of my money. The original $50, though, was a total waste.

[watchthis]

Who I blame most is the websites directories who tend to ignore the fact that the traffic is poor quality and promote it. They are half the reasons that new advertisers get scammed out of their hard earned money by such companies.

[luckychucky]

I'm a little embarrassed to say I fed Kanoodle a real decent chunk of money over a long period, before I stumbled onto the truth...what a sucker I was.

[ScottG13]

Kanoodle emailed us today asking us to restart our ads with them and offering to match $250.

To be honest, I just laughed.

[PPCExpert]

I've try kanoodle 2 month ago! I have spend $350 Kanoodle's traffic very fast. I can't understand. I start my 1st campaign on morning. I've check results yesterday, i shocked! I received over 200 clicks. AND "0" CONVERSION.

But my second campaign earned money to me! BUT CONVERSION RATING STILL BAD. RATE IS 5% Very bad. But i spend $200 earned 300$+

BUT my final decision Kanoodle not good ppc!

i hope this experience will help ppc newbies!

regards

[luke175]

Amazing you converted anything at all. It has been a long time since I tried Kanoodle but if their traffic is as bad now as it was, I would not consider them at all.

[ScottG13]

We had turned off Kanoodle at the beginning of the year as it was not generating many conversions. We decided to give it another try so I narrowed down the keyword list a great deal and turned it back on for another two months during our BUSY season.

No conversions. That's just pathetic. It is actually WORSE than last year.