Is Looksmart PPC Any Good?

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I am new to ppc advertising and would like to know if anyone has any experience with looksmart.

Is their traffic quality any good?

Are you making a good ROI?

Thanks in advanced
#good #looksmart #ppc
  • Profile picture of the author mafai44
    I am pretty sure infolinks gets their traffic from them and I like infolinks.. give them a try thats the only way youll find out if its good for you.
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    • Profile picture of the author comodo427
      Originally Posted by mafai44 View Post

      I am pretty sure infolinks gets their traffic from them and I like infolinks.. give them a try thats the only way youll find out if its good for you.
      Mafai, have you had good campaigns on infolinks?

      Are their bids cheap or are they very expensive?
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        • Profile picture of the author comodo427
          Originally Posted by speedylikesKJ View Post

          For me they did n`t converted well but you should give them a try yourself and see how it goes.
          Speedy, did you block bad sub ids / publishers when you did your campaigns?
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        • Profile picture of the author mick232
          Originally Posted by speedylikesKJ View Post

          For me they did n`t converted well but you should give them a try yourself and see how it goes.
          Same here ... I took a couple of ads that were converting on infolinks at about 6% (direct linking, short form, free signup) and ran them on looksmart and got no conversions after 106 clicks.

          I paused the infolinks campaign while I tested looksmart (thinking they were the same). Should have left it running for a better comparison.

          Got the looksmart clicks cheaper than infolinks though, and was ranked 1 for the keywords (ranked 2 on infolinks)
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          • Profile picture of the author comodo427
            Originally Posted by mick232 View Post

            Same here ... I took a couple of ads that were converting on infolinks at about 6% (direct linking, short form, free signup) and ran them on looksmart and got no conversions after 106 clicks.

            I paused the infolinks campaign while I tested looksmart (thinking they were the same). Should have left it running for a better comparison.

            Got the looksmart clicks cheaper than infolinks though, and was ranked 1 for the keywords (ranked 2 on infolinks)
            Mick, can you get 0.10 cents bids in good positions with infolinks.
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    • Profile picture of the author Night Owl2
      Originally Posted by mafai44 View Post

      I am pretty sure infolinks gets their traffic from them and I like infolinks.. give them a try thats the only way youll find out if its good for you.
      How can you say that infolinks get their traffic from looksmart?
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      • Profile picture of the author comodo427
        Originally Posted by Night Owl2 View Post

        How can you say that infolinks get their traffic from looksmart?
        It sounds to me from what you guys are saying that infolinks provides much better quality traffic than looksmart.
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  • Profile picture of the author mafai44
    Pretty cheap depending on the niche.. I ran a few campaigns and had some success, nothing big.
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  • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
    What are the minimum deposit amounts for LookSmart and InfoLinks? Anyone know?
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    • Profile picture of the author comodo427
      Originally Posted by PerformanceMan View Post

      What are the minimum deposit amounts for LookSmart and InfoLinks? Anyone know?
      I think it's a minimum deposit of $25 for both ad networks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vikram73
    IMO - LookSmart is like 7Search. You can get some juice out of it if you block bad traffic.
    It takes a lot of testing with both to find something that works well.
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    • Profile picture of the author shenwarrior
      receive email say infolinks.com have formed a partnership with
      perfmediagroup.com. the traffics quality at perfmediagroup.com really bad, only one subid 16515_41575 and only one referer perfmediagroup-xml.com, if you block subid or block referer you will get no traffics at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author chintz24
    It converts well. Not as well as 7search though.

    There is no point in wasting time behind small sources. Go after bing or Facebook I would suggest
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    • Profile picture of the author morg2k2
      I think facebook should have a much different approach, since the audience is not there in a buying mood.

      You need to interact with them so they will get engaged.

      I have tried a lot even with laser targeted audience (custom audience) even with 35% ctr it did not convert at all.

      So i believe bing would be a better alternative.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Alex
    Looksmart had delivered very bad quality of traffic.

    I spent more than $100 and not a single sale or optin.

    Apart from bad quality, I logged more than 4 complaints and never received a single response.

    Overall, bad experience and do not recommend it
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    • Profile picture of the author sstins
      Agreed, I never had much luck with Looksmart or ask "I think it was". But maybe I wasn't weeding out the non converting providers id's like I should have been.

      Re - Infolinks....is anyone out there currently buying traffic from them? I used them several years ago and they shut down there self serve platform. Their traffic was pretty decent. I just noticed they are taking inquiries again??
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      • Profile picture of the author Sandy Doreach
        I had bad experience with both.
        7search works good for me, I have some steady campaigns there. also tried Selfadvertiser PPC traffic not long ago and they have some good sources there- though need to find time to clean all the bad ones.
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