Findology PPN (Pay-Per-Nothing) Service
by Robert Dobes | May 13th, 2007
I signed up for a pay-per-click (PPC) service provided by Findology. Two main reasons led me to signing up. One, I was curious about this PPC service with the vision of getting cheap traffic to my site. Second, I received $50 worth of free clicks (I just had to add $25 of my own money).
The setup took me only a few minutes and after the approval of my campaign (couple days later) I started receiving clicks.
Now, about 200 visitors from Findology later, I have 0 (zero) sign ups to my site. All the visitors go to my landing page and as they come they leave the page in just a few seconds. You must be thinking the landing page must be bad or something. Yes, you may be right but ZERO sign ups doesn’t sound real to me since I have people coming from my other PPC campaigns and signing up without a problem.
I checked my traffic statistics to find out where exactly do the clicks come from and I found out they weren’t coming from the Findology’s own search engine at all. So where the hell are my ads displayed? All the clicks were leading to a bunch of crappy pages on parked domain names.
With my ads running on domain name parked pages I can only imagine how many clicks were genuine and how many fraudulent.
I can only recommend you, stay away from Findlology PPC services unless you have extra money you want to through away.
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Registered with yahoo.com’s PPC. Now I am getting clicks from 216.133.243.28 which turnout to be findology.com. Have a tracker on my page and the “visitors” are leaving as soon as they enter the page. Such a FRAUD, im so sick of it. How can yahoo get away with this?
Dear Robert:
I’m sorry you had such a bad PPC experience. I would like to have the chance to work with your cmapaign on our network, but will have to work with you to block certain sources of traffic that aren;t converting for you. We have a platform that filters through traffic at real time so we know the traffic to your site is real and as long as we work together all should be good. Please contact me by phone or email. My # is 888-439-2642 X 7101 or email me Dan@eZanga.com. have a great day.
Dan Zitofsky
Thanks Dan,
I can give it another try. We’ll see what we can.
I will contact you as soon as I am ready for it.
Thanks again.
Robert
We are getting yahoo cpc fraud clicks from
“216.133.243.28″ & “67.29.139.253″ .. all fake clicks
I paused my yahoo campaign and these fraud clicks also dissappeared.. started it again and they restarted. IS ANYONE AT YAHOO LISTENING ?
Robert,
It seams I have the same problem like you. I signed up as it was a cheap alternative to Yahoo and Google and they had a $50 bonus. Unfortunately, I get lots of visits but the visitors leave streat away. I use Google Analytics and I had about 30% bounce rate, now when I get stats from Findology my overall bounce rate is 75%-80%. After a few days I stopped all the compaigns. Just thinking what to do with the money I have there.
Hi Prae,
If I remember well, I just let the money run out and forgot about it. There was no easy way of closing the account so I just let it be. I guess my account is still sitting there collecting dust.
Good luck
Can anyone recommend the alternative? Is there even an alternative ppc engine?
I had the same problem with yahoo still the best is google just wish it wasnt so expensive you can pick and choose were you adds will show up although it takes a while to figure it out. Still its always trial and error Ive put in a good link in the name tag for promo codes you can play around with perhapt you should ask them there to remove the findology one if they are such a scam.
Per the initial message, stay away from “2nd tier” search engines like findology and ezanga. I tried a campaign with ezanga and gave it time for them to “block the sources”. They suggested $1000 dollars and two weeks of my time. I received 30,000+ clicks and received 0 sign ups!!!! Stay away from ezanga I assure you it is 100% fraudulent!
Thanks for the warning James. It’s good to know.
I received 50,000+ clicks and received 0 sign ups!!!! Stay away from Findology I assure you it is 100% fraudulent!
Findology will even go into your bank account to take out money without authorization. Keep hitting your account until you are empty. You will call your bank and they will issue a phony invoice to justify their fraudulent actions against you.They are very nasty. You will never get your money back because they will fight you on your own money. The best thing to do is stay away from the organization. I was robbed blind and they are going to pay sooner or later because nothing lasts forever.
Let me know if anybody want to file a Class action suit against this fraudulent company named Findology.
My e-mail address is mike44usa@gmail.com