Don't Use Technorati Ads

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Deliguy

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It's this ad service by them where you can up tiny tiny ads on a bunch of blogs and the technorati site. You can pay cpm or cpc. Trust me they're not worth even testing on. Three months ago I bought something like 10k clicks. They only allow you about a 120x32 ad so it's super tiny and they try to push for cpm when their ctr rate is well below .001% on the best ad. At first I was glad I bought clicks instead, but as it turned out here I am 3 months later and still spent less than 1k clicks and looking through the ips i'm estimating almost 90% of those clicks were just bots. Still zero conversions.

Anyone else tried them out and have anything to write about it? I'm hoping others have had better luck then me.

My review is simply: A COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY AND TIME.

At this point it's going to take over a year to get my measily 10k clicks and during that whole time i'm going to have to endure dozens of emails from like 5 different company reps asking how my campaign is going because theres so few advertisers on their system I guess each account gets 5 reps to harass them.
 


Thanks for the heads up. 120x32 ads suck, and IIRC, your ad isn't the only one shown in an advertising block. How much did the 10k clicks cost you, and are they willing to refund your money for what you haven't gotten yet?
 
Same thing, spent about $1k with them as a test. A little with their RON clicks and some site targeted ads.

If they open up more formats, it'll be worth trying again.
 
Their average ctr is something like .01% most people just stick the technorati ads way down at the footer of their sites where no one can see them. Im sure some people are making good money off it though.
 
if you advertise the right offers on the right sites you can make cash - but I agree with sgtryan, the volume is too low to bother with.
 
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