Looksmart Sponsor Listings a JOKE!!!

[powderboy]

I've been going back and forth with Looksmart about their awful sponsored listing service. The gist of my argument is this:

1. Their search network is about as hokey as they get
2. Their search partners include PORN sites
3. Their tracking and reporting tools are about 3-4 days behind

Basically, we spent $45 with them, so it's not that much money, but it seems ridiculous that they include PORN search partners when they don't even accept PORN sites in their directory. Here's the latest email I sent to their support team:

I guess I may have to concede that you did deliver that traffic, but it was from sites like these:

totallyamateur.com (give me a break!!)
hausfraunsex.forcedsexstory.com (what kind of operation do you guys run?!?!?)
youjustask.com
abcsearch.com
freewebcounter.com
****ta.com
galaxysearch.com
faxo.com
whattofind.com
overppc.com
goiga.com
wy-drunkdrivinglawyer.com
searchyet.com
lopsearch.com
dollar-searching.com
finderup.com
searchband.com
emberhsearch.com
yoho.com

If I would've known that you had some flakey search partners, I would've never even considered your services. I know that Google places AdWords on other sites, but they are KEYWORD TARGETED based on the content of the site.

I don't believe for one second that any of the above sites--especially the PORN ones--have delivered any worthwhile traffic. And, if I had known what the "Broad Match" meant, I would've never clicked it. I guess broad match means that you'll put our site on PORN sites!!!!

That is totally unprofessional and ridiculous!

Time to spread the word about your awful service on all the search engine forums!!! Good luck in the future.

[seobook]

hi powderboy
welcome to the forums :)

I recently tried LookSmart too and their traffic quality left something to be desired

[powderboy]

Yeah... pretty disappointing. I thought I'd give them a try ya know, but the resulting traffic was pathetic in terms of being targeted customers. Almost seemed like bots because nobody's going to click on our enterprise-level event management software from a porn site or some default page.

I hope Looksmart continues their spiral towards oblivion.

Oh yeah... and thanks for the welcome to the forums! I've been a member of SearchEngineForums.com since 1999, but it's getting dead over there. This forum seemed to have the best info! Cheers!

[sem4u]

Just ditch Looksmart then. They seem to be worse than ever these days. A lot of people stopped using them when they started charging a CPC rate, and then more people left when they lost their contract with MSN.

[powderboy]

Just ditch Looksmart then. They seem to be worse than ever these days. A lot of people stopped using them when they started charging a CPC rate, and then more people left when they lost their contract with MSN.My plan exactly! I just thought I'd give them a whirl, but I wanted to make sure that nobody else fell into the same trap.