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Within the last month or so they are billing for more clicks then they have given me total in the past 2-3 years. In fact, they are billing for more click that Google Adwords or Overture has for the month. Unforuately, I did not notice any chance in activity at our site. I checked my web stats and had fewer total clicks from all sources than the number of clicks Kanoodle is charging me for.
I contacted them and they could not explain it. They did give me a $65 credit but cannot explain the anomaly. They had their "Traffic Analysis Department" look at it and they said they were all legitimate clicks.
This makes absolutely no sense to me as it is not logical. Is this happening to anyone else, or is it just me?
Mike Clough
[edited by: seth_wilde at 2:45 am (utc) on Feb. 5, 2005]
He found Knoodle to be the worst with click fraud and ROI. Knoodle recieved a return of less than 1/20th of what he recieved from other ad networks.
Just some data for you.
But I would wash my hands of their keyword product.
they scam advertisers but now its almost over, since there are almost none left and their income comes mostly from their golden partnerships to manage clicks on MSNBC and others.
they charge at a crazy rate, and with them, u always get 10x more clicks than Overture and Google combined.
just scam click farms, and they will never tell u the truth, but they know it. its a $30M company with a large roster of engineers at disposal.
He found Knoodle to be the worst with click fraud and ROI. Knoodle recieved a return of less than 1/20th of what he recieved from other ad networks.
That's been my experience with most of the second-tier search engines. Perhaps not 1/20th, but at least 1/10th.
By any chance does your friend have some second-tier search engines that he does recommend? Comparable ROI to AdWords and Overture would be great, but even 1/5th the ROI would make a penny bid equivalent to an AdWords 5 cent bid.
