Direct CPV - False referrers?

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pixelo

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Im using Prosper to track my PPV marketing. Im targeting certain URLS, X, Y and Z.

But Prosper is telling me that my popups are showing on crappy lyric sites - Tremolocowboys.com, twin-music.com etc.

Interestingly these same crappy sites were triggering pops when I tried out media traffic.

Is this just crappy spam traffic to con advertisers or is there a legit explanation?
 


Same shit happened to me.

Same domains and everything.

Soooooo i called DCPV .... they acted stupid and never gave me a good answer and asked for my logs to prove what i was telling them.

I told them to fuck off and halted all my campaigns with them. I don't need trash traffic.



My AM told me that DCPV might be buying pops from other networks to fill in where they are missing traffic.


I don't understand a PPV network that allows you to URL target then gives you pops from shitty lyric sites... no wonder they just dropped their minimum bid back down to 0.015....


They are going under soon IMO.
 
Yes, all of your guessings seems right...cause...you know where is Media Traffic publishing channel ? I mean like Pinball for Leadimpact, Loudmo for DirectCPV, GameVance for Trafficvance, etc.

And since they took their userbase from vombasavers.com and vombashots.com... so... old forgotten VombaCash which was great deal 5 years ago or so. Remember ? For now of course they suck with payouts, etc.

Ok, try to sign up here
VombaCash
You will see
1) They are not accepting new members/affiliates
2) They promote Loudmo with big banner on that page

Answer is obvious.

Deleted from DCPV cause Azoogle/Epic don't like them anymore. LOL I know...but that says something maybe, who knows...
 
Is any of this surprising?

Charlo got caught shaving the fuck out of adult webmasters.

So why do you think he wouldn't have fake/bot clicks.
 
Same thing here. I don't think I was charged for the traffic from those referers though.

DCPV sucks anyhow. As others said before, quality of traffic is low and bids are high. I was able to break even/make a tiny margin on some campaigns, but it really wasn't worth it and I stopped running with them.

I ask my rep there if he has any advertisers spending more than a couple hundred bux a day and he told me no. That should tell you something.
 
i'm seeing those same referrers as well in my prosper logs.

i'm under the impression that "referrer" = what site/url the user was at before they went to your target url..

So what's the deal? They are basically putting our url traffic on url's that we did not bid on, and assigning it to a url that we did bid on?
 
So this is funny - I noticed the same pattern, contacted support & they asked me for proof. I sent them screenshots of the domains that appeared but they didnt reply. I waited for a week & then again emailed them asking what happened with the screens I sent, again no reply. Answer is obvious ;)
 
FatalError said:
So this is funny - I noticed the same pattern, contacted support & they asked me for proof. I sent them screenshots of the domains that appeared but they didnt reply. I waited for a week & then again emailed them asking what happened with the screens I sent, again no reply. Answer is obvious ;)
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So shady. They asked me for screenshots from my logs as well, I sent, but I have a feeling Im not going to be hearing back from them.

Such a shame as I really would like to be able to scale - which would involve me paying them a lot of $$$.

The thing is I know for a fact that people have had profitable campaigns with directcpv.



Also FYI - I saw these exact same shitty referrers on Media Traffic. Same stupid non-explanation - the rep said something like "yeah sometimes the url that the publisher owns is shown as the referrer". BS - it's a different lyric page on the site each time, prosper is just picking up the true referrer.
 
Eh guys, why you don't just read my post above ? I explained it pretty well about MT and DCPV traffic.
 
Cancelled my account after spending a grand total of $5.00. The chat help operater was very shady - just ignored my question about whether it was a common concern, then eventually said no it wasnt (I know it is based on you guys' responses).

Lame. Waste of my time, glad i figured out now.

Surely you cant build a business like this if you are scamming marketers, even newbies dont have endless supply of funds to pump into something that doesnt work.

- SEOlinker - not sure what you were saying - MT and dcpv are the same inventory? Yeah seems like it.
 
Search for "DirectCPV fake traffic" on here... dude I just asked for my money back and they asked me for logs as well. I got screen shots of silly click weirdness... DirectCPV's traffic makes 7search traffic feel like Google! lol!
 
7search by the way is not that bad....simply quite low volume and since it's not search, more like content/display traffic they rely a lot on their "partners" and they have quite high bids, while 7search itself very cheap.
 
pixelo said:
I dunno - Im still not much clearer.

I guess I'll close my Dcpv account as everyone else has, just read a bit about the CEO of the dcpv -

Charlo Barbosa, B.C. Ltd.

Nice...
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Well.. just to add a little objectivity here.

"When users downloaded the software, a lengthy licensing agreement appeared on the screen adjacent to a box that allowed them to click on "I agree."

So in other words consumer were informed and provided consent. So in other words what he did was more compliant and more ethical than some of the shit pulled in our industry (think what went on and goes on in ringtones, weightloss, rebills, etc.)
 
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