There were quite a few of you guys who wanted reviews on looksmart so here is mine.
1) Sign up
2) Campaigns
3) Performance
Sign up
Signing up for looksmart is relatively easy. Unlike 7search, you don't need to verify CC which is nice. Upon signing up, I setup 66 campaigns at $2 daily limit. These campaigns were direct copies of the ones I had on 7search. My template was pretty good on 7search ranging from 30%-100% CTR. After setting up the campigns I let it run overnight. In the morning I woke up with a $400 charge on my CC
Apparently they charge 3x your daily limit when you first setup your campaigns. 66 x $2 = $132 daily limit. $132 x 3 = $396. I guess they rounded up and charged me $400(they placed it in my balance). After this I was pretty furious, but then again if they perform then I wouldn't care. Unless you don't have a coupon, I suggest you start SLOW. I've also read on shoemoney's blog that a friend of his got charged $2000+ overnight from looksmart so be careful. If I had set my campaigns to $5 daily limit I would have been charged $990 instead.
Campaigns
Looksmart's adcenter is not the best. It is very slow and very hard to navigate like M$'s adcenter. To this day I still havn't figured out how to delete campaigns/keywords. All I can do is "hide" them which ultimately does the same thing I think. Upon setting up my initial campaigns I was disappointed that not one of my campaigns received any clicks. I later learned that looksmart does not track in real time. It can take anywhere from 30 mins to 1 hour to show any clicks. It also took about 1 day for my campaigns to go live. Looksmart is very slow to make any changes in general. Even if you turn campaigns off you can still get clicks for the next hour or so for that campaign.
Performance
looksmart seemed more professional and more established than 7search at first glance. I immediately thought I would definately get better returns. Boy was I wrong Looksmart can push out some good volume on certain mainstream niches, but a lot of my campaigns only got 1 or 2 clicks a day. When looking at my stats it seemed as if looksmart was performing great. 40% average CTR meant good returns(or so I thought). My earnings were at $30, but my money spent was also at $30.... Obviously something is wrong and the problem is not on my side since 30% CTR alone meant I should of had atleast a 1:2 return from my experience with 7search. Upon further research I found that others had problems with looksmart sending out shit/fake traffic. I didn't give up hope and began tweaking for a week. After a week I dropped the sites that were performing the worst. To my amazement, my stats STILL sucked. I was still pushing 1:1 ROI. At this point I realize that to make arbi work with looksmart you need...
1) a really good popular niche
2) 5 or more clicks a day. any less = fake traffic most of the time.
3) luck (you never know which days you will get shit/fake traffic)
At the moment I'm just waiting for my money to drain from looksmart. Looksmart is SHIT so don't use them. Looksmart may be good for certain things but Arbi is not one of them.
1) Sign up
2) Campaigns
3) Performance
Sign up
Signing up for looksmart is relatively easy. Unlike 7search, you don't need to verify CC which is nice. Upon signing up, I setup 66 campaigns at $2 daily limit. These campaigns were direct copies of the ones I had on 7search. My template was pretty good on 7search ranging from 30%-100% CTR. After setting up the campigns I let it run overnight. In the morning I woke up with a $400 charge on my CC
Apparently they charge 3x your daily limit when you first setup your campaigns. 66 x $2 = $132 daily limit. $132 x 3 = $396. I guess they rounded up and charged me $400(they placed it in my balance). After this I was pretty furious, but then again if they perform then I wouldn't care. Unless you don't have a coupon, I suggest you start SLOW. I've also read on shoemoney's blog that a friend of his got charged $2000+ overnight from looksmart so be careful. If I had set my campaigns to $5 daily limit I would have been charged $990 instead. Campaigns
Looksmart's adcenter is not the best. It is very slow and very hard to navigate like M$'s adcenter. To this day I still havn't figured out how to delete campaigns/keywords. All I can do is "hide" them which ultimately does the same thing I think. Upon setting up my initial campaigns I was disappointed that not one of my campaigns received any clicks. I later learned that looksmart does not track in real time. It can take anywhere from 30 mins to 1 hour to show any clicks. It also took about 1 day for my campaigns to go live. Looksmart is very slow to make any changes in general. Even if you turn campaigns off you can still get clicks for the next hour or so for that campaign.
Performance
looksmart seemed more professional and more established than 7search at first glance. I immediately thought I would definately get better returns. Boy was I wrong
Looksmart can push out some good volume on certain mainstream niches, but a lot of my campaigns only got 1 or 2 clicks a day. When looking at my stats it seemed as if looksmart was performing great. 40% average CTR meant good returns(or so I thought). My earnings were at $30, but my money spent was also at $30.... Obviously something is wrong and the problem is not on my side since 30% CTR alone meant I should of had atleast a 1:2 return from my experience with 7search. Upon further research I found that others had problems with looksmart sending out shit/fake traffic. I didn't give up hope and began tweaking for a week. After a week I dropped the sites that were performing the worst. To my amazement, my stats STILL sucked. I was still pushing 1:1 ROI. At this point I realize that to make arbi work with looksmart you need...1) a really good popular niche
2) 5 or more clicks a day. any less = fake traffic most of the time.
3) luck (you never know which days you will get shit/fake traffic)
At the moment I'm just waiting for my money to drain from looksmart. Looksmart is SHIT so don't use them. Looksmart may be good for certain things but Arbi is not one of them.
