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Clicksor is scams ?

who can tell me Publisher by CPM

i knew cpx24 dot com. but it pay very cheap
#clicksor #scams
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  • Profile picture of the author jackson1577
    no, its not a scam.
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    They aren't a scam, but they are far from high quality
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    • Profile picture of the author Kohldia
      Originally Posted by ChrisBa View Post

      They aren't a scam, but they are far from high quality
      Agreed, just because traffic doesn't convert well it doesn't mean it's a scam.
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  • Profile picture of the author benq99
    they are definitely not a scam
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  • Profile picture of the author ichthyander
    i am a punblisher of clicksor i am earning good money though i have not get any payment yet, but i heard a lot of good review of them . hoping to get paid soon
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  • Profile picture of the author LukePeerFly
    The main issue with Clicksor is simply ad placement. They've been around a long time and there are a bunch of very crappy sites out there with their ads plastered all over them. The same could be said about AdSense, but they do a much better job of targeting.

    If you're looking for relatively cheap traffic, can't hurt to try Clicksor, but like was mentioned, don't except the quality to be amazing.
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  • Profile picture of the author MarketingManUK
    Agree can't hurt to try them but..

    * start off with a small test campaign; and

    * analyse every bit of traffic that comes through.


    Campaigns can fail for all sorts of reasons - bad product, bad landing page etc, but just as often it can be because of the traffic they're sending!
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  • Profile picture of the author ichthyander
    as a publisher i am making .50$ per day and the traffic is 1500 user daily. Is that good as a publisher? I use banner and text and in text ad only, no pop up
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    • Profile picture of the author BillyBacklinks
      Originally Posted by ichthyander View Post

      as a publisher i am making .50$ per day and the traffic is 1500 user daily. Is that good as a publisher? I use banner and text and in text ad only, no pop up
      Is that 1500 unique's you're getting?
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  • Profile picture of the author velvetadvert
    Service is poor, but seems like you don't fully understand term "scam". They're not.
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  • Profile picture of the author ichthyander
    do they pay to their publisher on right time?
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  • Profile picture of the author antosco
    I wouldn't say that clicksor is a scam because they have been around for quite some time now. The only thing I don't like about them is their pop ups.
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    • Profile picture of the author comodo427
      Well I would consider them to be a scam for the following reasons.

      According to someone that works at clicksor the traffic does not convert into any sales.

      Why does the traffic not convert?

      I'm guessing their is a lot of click fraud which clicksor haven't taken care of.
      Clicksor oviously don't know anything about running a good quality ad network so shouldn't be in business.
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  • Profile picture of the author giwbiz
    clicksor itself sure does get a lot of traffic though its alexa ranking is 156
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  • Profile picture of the author williamrs
    No, they're not a scam.

    Their traffic isn't excellent, but it's cheap, so the traffic source isn't necessarily bad.


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  • Profile picture of the author ichthyander
    Do they pay on time to publishers?
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  • Profile picture of the author rackspace
    they have not approved my PPV campaigns for 3 days. How long do they normally take ?
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  • Profile picture of the author CalinDan
    Definitely not a scam, low quality maybe...
    I know people who make bank with Clicksor but not with CPA offers. So, if you have the time and resources available to master this traffic source, it wouldn't be that bad of an idea.

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  • Profile picture of the author rackspace
    any reviews about clicksor ppv traffic?
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  • Profile picture of the author hd2000
    never try before
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  • Profile picture of the author gpwilson
    I am not so sure about that. Because i never heard this type of compliant about Clicksor.
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  • Profile picture of the author shamoonak12
    I would also like to know if they have paid anyone on time.
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  • Profile picture of the author vinhnhu11
    no, its not a scam.
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  • Profile picture of the author heyadnet
    Ok, I did run a Casino offer on CPV with Clicksor. I've generated 4535 clicks and got 18 conversion. I had to run 4000 clicks to see which site was converting, then I have asked my account manager to run only the campaign on those sites. Now the traffic is very slow, but still getting better conversion rate. My campaign will be break even in few days and I'll start making profit.

    I don't know if it's good or not, but I have started with 50$ to see what was working and not. I have tried before 7search adBrite, Adwords, PoF, Facebook, and clicksor gave me the best. I'm now trying to find other source of traffic. If you have suggestion where I don't have to upfront 500$, it would be cool
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  • Profile picture of the author JVWhitaker
    No, clicksor is not a scam, they are good folks.
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    • Profile picture of the author comodo427
      Originally Posted by JVWhitaker View Post

      No, clicksor is not a scam, they are good folks.
      When you say good jvwhitaker, do you mean you personally have had successfull campaigns?
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  • Profile picture of the author smaxor
    I don't know if it's fraud or not but it definitely performs very very poorly.

    Over this weekend just for fun I ran a campaign for one of our offers we know converts around 7-20% on every traffic source we've tested.

    My Dentist Matches

    I was on break for thanksgiving so decided to test how it performs on clicksor because that's my idea of fun on a vacation

    I loaded $1k into the account so I could get the premium service and in doing so one of their reps contacted me quickly. She was able to approve my funding and get my account live in the same day.

    I built out 1 campaign which was a keyword text campaign. I went to the Google keyword sandbox

    https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeti...=KEYWORD_IDEAS

    and pulled all the keywords based on dentist, tooth pain, teeth pain and stuck them into my Clicksor campaign. I used the basic ads we always use that work well.

    Search Prescreened Dentists
    1000's of Local dentists in your area.
    Start searching and get matched now.

    I set the campaign budget to $50/day to spend and sat and waited.

    After about a few hours it had spent $50. Had 1500 clicks and 1 lead. Which honestly makes no sense for me at all. I can understand if an ad was showing but didn't get any clicks. But how is it possible that 1500 people made enough of a commitment to click the ad that they wanted to find a local dentist, BUT didn't want to search dentists in their area? I don't see how that's even possible. If this was a CPV campaign sure I could see our page getting popped and no response. But that it's a text ad campaign and got that many clicks and no conversions makes it seem fishy.

    At the end of today we were at 4200 clicks and 3 leads over the last 3 days. That's a 0.07% conversion rate. I don't understand how that's real traffic...
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    • Profile picture of the author comodo427
      Originally Posted by smaxor View Post

      I don't know if it's fraud or not but it definitely performs very very poorly.

      Over this weekend just for fun I ran a campaign for one of our offers we know converts around 7-20% on every traffic source we've tested.

      My Dentist Matches

      I was on break for thanksgiving so decided to test how it performs on clicksor because that's my idea of fun on a vacation

      I loaded $1k into the account so I could get the premium service and in doing so one of their reps contacted me quickly. She was able to approve my funding and get my account live in the same day.

      I built out 1 campaign which was a keyword text campaign. I went to the Google keyword sandbox

      https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeti...=KEYWORD_IDEAS

      and pulled all the keywords based on dentist, tooth pain, teeth pain and stuck them into my Clicksor campaign. I used the basic ads we always use that work well.

      Search Prescreened Dentists
      1000's of Local dentists in your area.
      Start searching and get matched now.

      I set the campaign budget to $50/day to spend and sat and waited.

      After about a few hours it had spent $50. Had 1500 clicks and 1 lead. Which honestly makes no sense for me at all. I can understand if an ad was showing but didn't get any clicks. But how is it possible that 1500 people made enough of a commitment to click the ad that they wanted to find a local dentist, BUT didn't want to search dentists in their area? I don't see how that's even possible. If this was a CPV campaign sure I could see our page getting popped and no response. But that it's a text ad campaign and got that many clicks and no conversions makes it seem fishy.

      At the end of today we were at 4200 clicks and 3 leads over the last 3 days. That's a 0.07% conversion rate. I don't understand how that's real traffic...
      Do they have an option to block bad performing websites or affiliates? If they do then you can probably track which sites produce conversions with prosper202.

      Then you can block any sites that don't produce conversions. You can also ask for a refund for all clicks that aren't unique.
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      • Profile picture of the author smaxor
        Originally Posted by comodo427 View Post

        Do they have an option to block bad performing websites or affiliates? If they do then you can probably track which sites produce conversions with prosper202.

        Then you can block any sites that don't produce conversions. You can also ask for a refund for all clicks that aren't unique.
        Yes they have click conversion tracking right in Clicksor by placing a conversion pixel. So on that $300 spend the clicks came from around 1000 sites. With another 5000 or so getting impressions. Based on what I'm seeing it seems like you'd need to spend around $7-10k in losses to find the good placements. Then that's a pretty deep hole to dig out of. Say you were making $2-3 per lead you'd need the placements you found to have some HUGE volume to make up for that loss.

        Based on that not sure it would make sense.
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        • Profile picture of the author comodo427
          Originally Posted by smaxor View Post

          Yes they have click conversion tracking right in Clicksor by placing a conversion pixel. So on that $300 spend the clicks came from around 1000 sites. With another 5000 or so getting impressions. Based on what I'm seeing it seems like you'd need to spend around $7-10k in losses to find the good placements. Then that's a pretty deep hole to dig out of. Say you were making $2-3 per lead you'd need the placements you found to have some HUGE volume to make up for that loss.

          Based on that not sure it would make sense.
          Well some people seem to be having success with them so I don't agree with what you put. Though I can't really comment as I haven't tested them out myself.
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  • Profile picture of the author billymail01
    I run some freebie offers in Clicksor. The conversion is ok.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cash37
    I wouldnt say theyre a scam but the traffic is crap
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  • Profile picture of the author wenwon
    I agree with most of the comments here. I don't believe that Clicksor is a scam but I don't think they are making a diligent effort to stop fraudulent clicks.

    Their metrics package doesn't seem to sync with what I'm seeing with Google Analytics or another proprietary metrics package we use in our office. With any PPC program, there's always going to be a discrepancy but my traffic numbers are about 70% less when compared to what Clicksor claims they are directing to my website.

    Overall, the traffic seems "shady" to say the least. I have a client website that we're accustomed to seeing an 18% conversion rate; with Clicksor, the number is at 0% so far.

    Support is well below average and as of this morning, they appear to be down so I can't log in to see their "metrics" they claim to my client site. The response time from their support team ranges from one day to two days. Compared to other platforms, this is not good.

    I won't be using this for my clients anymore.
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  • Profile picture of the author GDIChamp
    I've used clicksor in the past for advertising (not publishing) and they're definitely not a scam. Adwords targets a lot better but clicksor converts and they are pretty cheap. Also had a decent turnout with kanoodle. No luck with 7 search at all which is odd because they claim to have a search engine and toolbar. Bingads (formerly ms adcenter) works great for me too.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnbrown12
    No,they are not
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  • Profile picture of the author johnbrown12
    It's not easy to get leads with them
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  • Profile picture of the author n3o
    BIGGEST SCAM ... if u look at their traffic source , it's all coming from paid to click or paid to surf website with 100% bounce rate and 1 sec visit

    example of traffic site:
    yahoo.whptp.net
    cpm.whptp.net
    youtube.whptp.net

    Clicksor do very little to monitor the fake traffic, fraud, malware, viruses etc. that plague their network - and they are completely unwilling to refund any money to a customer that confronts them with evidence such as I have.
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  • use scamadvisor before we judge scam or not.
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  • Profile picture of the author n3o
    YES .. CLICKSOR IS SCAM .. I WOULD SAY THEY ARE MORE SHADY & HAVE QUESTIONABLE TRAFFIC SOURCE .. AND OVER CHARGE FOR CLICKS THEN IT ACTUALLY IS ...

    DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON CLICKSOR !
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  • Profile picture of the author Abhar24
    yes clicksor is not a scam, but they less money in comparison with google adsenc..
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  • Profile picture of the author Flouster
    Nope, it's a scam for sure! Save your money, time and effort. Stay away from these scammers...
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  • I do not recommend Clicksor - I've just had some difficulty with them, I purchased as an advertiser.

    The "clicks" they deliver are at best poor quality or are not real. They also over-inflate what they claim in their reports to deliver - the "clicks" do not tie up with Google Analytics.

    I bought $50 and asked for a full refund which they agreed to but then they only partially refunded me claiming they can't refund for the "clicks" I'd already received.

    They won't refund the rest so I've taken it up with PayPal in the hope that they will mediate.

    They make false claims and offer poor service and I hope this post helps others avoid this company and the distress it's caused me in this case.
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