How much have you lost in 1 day or 1 month?
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Observation: all those losing money in one day are doing PPC.
Ya PPC is easy to see what you lose in costs. Most of my observable costs have been in PPC.
Spent $600 and got $65 lately in something I forgot to watch closer. Crap converting offer.
Tried to bid 50 cents and Big G says I bid $50 a click for something small. Paid $25 a click for 3 clicks before I noticed it. Google would not reverse it. Assholes.
But if I spend a few weeks on SEO and make little it does not feel as bad. I can always hope for the future.
In PPC there is no future sale, only now! Except if they opted into a newsletter.
PPC here as well. I lost 500 euro in a hour because the stupid captcha showed a broken image. Noone could register, unless they were psychic.
I am using both mon.itor.us http://mon.itor.us/and basicstate.com (my favourite) to monitor my hosting and aff network server down time
Before that I lost $100 due to server down. I am surprised with the BlueHost hosting down time is much more than GoDaddy hosting!!
:thumbsup: Montastic is the shit isn't it? Saved my ass 2 times during the last 6 months -- both times would have probably lost at least $80 during the down time. Sucks to get a text msg at 4am but it's always nice to save a little dough.
i have a blog that was operating for a whole year with a CSS bug that messed up post pages in IE. never knew about it the whole time, because i never tested it in IE. don't know exactly how much it cost me, but based on how much conversions grew afterwards, it had to have been a shit load.
Is there a way to programmatically pause an adwords campaign if you could write a script to determine a server is down?
What's the solution there?
Or, maybe mirror the server and have it redirect somehow?
What's the solution there?
Or, maybe mirror the server and have it redirect somehow?
I've had a server stay UP(allowing connections) so I didnt get notified of a problem, but the all important mysql on the backend went down.
Total cost before I caught it:$1200
Total cost before I caught it:$1200
There might be a way. I recently discover there are perl adword modules that will in theory allow a programmer to have a fail safe on a cron job that could pause a campaign. I just thought of that while reading this post. I know there are adword apis that can make this happen if u have a clever enough programmer.
in one day? $11k
In one month? $18k (same month as the one shitty day)
^^ from getting slogged by affiliate networks.
In one year? $80k+
^^ throwing money away on attorneys for ridiculous law suits
In my lifetime? Probably more than I've made..... which is a little depressing.
In one month? $18k (same month as the one shitty day)
^^ from getting slogged by affiliate networks.
In one year? $80k+
^^ throwing money away on attorneys for ridiculous law suits
In my lifetime? Probably more than I've made..... which is a little depressing.
Seems you forgot to mention the Pepperjam guy's sport coat at ASE 07' that you lost too.
getting banned by peakclick after 3 months of blackhat work run me to about a $2K+ loss, in lost payments (f*ckers), hosting and domain costs and development time/money. on the plus side have made about $1k back so far as google hadn't banned all the domains yet and i found out parked domains pay way better
ppc wise, i'm really new to this, but i lost ~$100 on friday due to a google glitch forcing my ad into the number one spot and only showing 6 or so ads one minute then all of them the next. tyre kickers done the budget with no conversions but i did come away with an insane 50.54% CTR for the day so hit a 500%+ ROI today once i optimized the campaign.
ppc wise, i'm really new to this, but i lost ~$100 on friday due to a google glitch forcing my ad into the number one spot and only showing 6 or so ads one minute then all of them the next. tyre kickers done the budget with no conversions but i did come away with an insane 50.54% CTR for the day so hit a 500%+ ROI today once i optimized the campaign.
yes. it was a test operation not related to my main activities and for less than an afternoons setup work not bad bank. in hindsite i fucked up by not cashing my chips in sooner with this strategy. a lesson learned and not to be repeated by me again. luckily i did have the sense to ask for payment before i expanded out across my other servers otherwise it could have been real costly.
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