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Old 09-03-2007, 06:58 PM  
Trixxxia
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Originally Posted by sharphead View Post
Before I pass judgement like so many others before me... can someone TECHNICALLY explain why Zango is a problem? I don't want dramatics, I want hard facts and sources why everyone thinks Zango is so bad.
Let's assume you have never promoted them and are clean as a whistle.

You have this fantabulous site that is growing everyday. Up and up and up the traffic goes, you're seeing your income grow. One day - you notice that you're not converting as well with your sponsors as say... a month ago. Traffic is growing but conversions are not, in fact, they are getting worse. You tend to think it's due to oversaturation, old content, not enough free porn, too much free porn, your sponsor, your server, the economy, the priests asking for a porn boycott and then there's another possibility.

Someone saw you're gaining a lot of traffic so they decided that they are going to get your traffic - by hook or by crook - or they just blindly choose a word that matches your site. They advertise with this system - bid on some of your keywords that fit their niche and which you have listed on your site. So surfers that come on your site featuring 'pickle dick cocks' will get a popup with their advertiser of the term 'pickle dick cocks'. Now the surfer, overwhelmed with this page and probably oblivious to the note at the bottom that says 'This page brought to you by 'whatever' ' will click this page thinking or knowing that it's not where he intended to go, thus leaving your site to go to the guy that bid on the term. Remember, this is with organic traffic, bought traffic, traffic trades - ANY form of traffic.

Before, they even allowed someone to bid on your url. So if your URL was 'http://www.pickledickcocks.com' - I could have gone into their system and taken ALL of the surfers with this installed 'funkware'. It is 'said' that they not longer allow this practice. **not really sure if they REALLY cleaned up the url stuff although people have said that since it's ILLEGAL they stopped the practice. Either way, once it's slithers, it's always a snake for me.
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