Outing my Lander

[Garrett]

This is a public service announcement to remind everybody to make sure their domains are not about to expire when buying traffic. Especially traffic that you can't pause immediately

Anybody have any fails they wanna divulge in order to help me feel better about myself in this difficult time?

 

[GerardWon]

Not the same thing, but I own a small portfolio of misspelled domains.

Have no idea how you can fuckup a copy/paste -- I blame it on late nites and alcohol.

 

[cardine]

I wanted to run a TrafficVance creative in a paused campaign, so I unpaused the campaign that the creative was in.

I didn't realize that this also unpaused a bunch of different old creatives from the same campaign until I woke up the next morning to find I had sent $1000 of traffic to a black hole.

 

[Garrett]

Not the same thing, but I own a small portfolio of misspelled domains.

Have no idea how you can fuckup a copy/paste -- I blame it on late nites and alcohol.

fucking up a copy/paste.... classic!

I wanted to run a TrafficVance creative in a paused campaign, so I unpaused the campaign that the creative was in.

I didn't realize that this also unpaused a bunch of different old creatives from the same campaign until I woke up the next morning to find I had sent $1000 of traffic to a black hole.

I've done that before too lol. Reactivate an entire campaign when you mean to only activate a single adgroup or creative within that adgroup. Luckily I caught that one pretty quick.

Awhile ago I was running a Facebook campaign and wanted the impressions to hurry the fuck up on a campaign I was just getting started with, so I set my budget to like $20k/day. Then the phone rang and shit and all this stuff started happening at once.

2 hours later I looked at Spy View in Prosper202 and saw I was getting a retarded amount of traffic. Facebook bum rushed all my impressions for the remainder of the day. I got like 7,000 clicks which cost me around $1800.... all for a return of $350ish

 

[Fatbat]

Not the same thing, but I own a small portfolio of misspelled domains.

Have no idea how you can fuckup a copy/paste -- I blame it on late nites and alcohol.

Hah, yeah, I've had a couple of those. One on GoDaddy auction that cost me a few bucks with the word restaurant in it. Couldn't believe how this fucking fantastic domain was being ignored by the other buyers but I wasn't gong to let it get away. Then I looked at it the next morning and realized it was spelled wrong.

 

[potentialeight]

If you were a politician then you could just call it a stimulus package. :3

 

[Beach Affiliate]

Not the same thing, but I own a small portfolio of misspelled domains.

Have no idea how you can fuckup a copy/paste -- I blame it on late nites and alcohol.

I got all thrilled after a looooong work session when I realized that I found an awesome [keyword]Diet.com that had never been registered.

For the next 12 months I was the not-so-proud owner of [keyword]Deit.com

 

[justo_tx]

Not the same thing, but I own a small portfolio of misspelled domains.

Have no idea how you can fuckup a copy/paste -- I blame it on late nites and alcohol.

Been there myself. If you ever arrive at namecheap/godaddy/wherever to check domain availability and find yourself saying "how the fuck can that still be available?" double check the spelling. I never did make much use of mailoder-----.com :anon.sml:

 

[(O_o)]

lost traffic always sucks!

One time sent out a huge ppc & email campaign. Check stats after waking up. basically all low numbers and 0's. check hosting account lander was on, had sent so much traffic to this tiny $4/month shared hosting account I had bought for it and I exceeded my small BW limit within minutes and they suspended it. whoops!

 

[handrewrites]

This is a public service announcement to remind everybody to make sure their domains are not about to expire when buying traffic. Especially traffic that you can't pause immediately

Anybody have any fails they wanna divulge in order to help me feel better about myself in this difficult time?

How much did you lose?

 

[Garrett]

not much, only a couple hundred dollars. I wonder how much $$$ the traffic sources make in these kinds of donations

 

[1yerrot]

I got all thrilled after a looooong work session when I realized that I found an awesome [keyword]Diet.com that had never been registered.

For the next 12 months I was the not-so-proud owner of [keyword]Deit.com

LOLOLO, This is CLASSIC. Nothing beats finding a "undiscovered gem", literally feeling like you can't type your info and pull out your credit card fast enough, as if you're racing to get it registered and then after the fact realize the domain sucks. I've been there, most of us have.

 

[music4mic]

The worst I've done was a few hundred in FB traffic when I botched the cloak code. Still sucks though, even though it wasn't a large dollar amount.

 

[edward_b]

Set up a myspace campaign a few years back as I was falling asleep on the couch, basically just duplicating running campaigns. Woke up to find I'd bid $32/click in 3 of the adgroups, instead of the $0.32 I should have been typing...

By the grace of god the overnight CTR on the overbid 3 was shit.