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BANNER SYSTEMS
This one sounds really good on the surface, but it's all on the surface!
Advantages
- They offer a 1:1 ratio. They do this by using half banners (see banner
above).
- They have a really interesting referral downline system. You get 10%
of traffic for any referrals you sign up and this goes FIVE levels deep
so you can build a lot of extra hits.
- They allow you to have many different banners at the same time.
- You can target each banner individually.
- You can run several different websites from one banner account
- You can point a banner at a different page or even website than the one
you have registered. - At least as far as we can tell you can.
- Promotion of downline is done from the section beneath your banner. If
someone clicks here you get the downline. This really does work.
Disadvantages
- It takes FOREVER for them to show your banners. This company seems more
interested in selling the advertising space you are generating than showing
the banners you are owed. We have one small site that shows a few banners
(traffic about 600 visitors a week) At time of writing we have almost
3,000 unused banners queued up from this site!
- Do not use this company if you want to run a campaign it could take over
a year for them to show your banners (if you are lucky at that).
- They send you email EVERY SINGLE DAY. Usually useless junk nothing important. There is no way to turn it off unless you cancel your account. All email is HTML with no text version so if you turn off HTML mail (which many
people do) you can't read it anyway.
- It's very hard to cancel an account. You can't do it from your account.
We have yet to get one canceled for anyone.
- You can only select one category to block from your site.
- They give VERY little information about how you are supposed to work
your account. They state that you can run several web sites from your
account. However they only give you the option to register one.
- Navigation around the site is awkward and difficult. It takes a lot of
time to move from one area to another. You have to use these annoying
little tabs to back out of every option to get to another there is no
navigation bar.
- Stats are poor. They only show a day by day graphical view for everything
which means it's not so easy to determine what is going on.
- Banners are not clean. They have their logo underneath, which is quite
large.
- Banners are an unusual size. This means you need to design one specifically for them.
- They never answer questions or address concerns about your account.
- There is no way to log off the system.
Conclusion.
This system comes as close to cheating you as anything we have seen on
the internet. Since it can take forever to show your banners you have
no control over your advertising, and can't test any banner effectiveness.
The multi level system sounds great but since banners are shown at such
a snails pace there is really little point in it. You can't run an effective
campaign since you have no idea how long it will take to show all the
banners you have earned.
Their website is quite uninformative and difficult to use, we would not
recommend it to anyone without reasonable knowledge of how to use a system
before they started.
If you want to have your banners shown and want to run banners promoting
current items DON'T USE THIS SYSTEM.
NOT RECOMMENDED!
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