Comments on: Kanoodle and Click Fraud

By: GloJean

GloJean — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:17:27 +0000

This is my first time hearing about Kanoodle, but I tried Ipromote where you create your own add by using the homepage of your website. For trial purposes I set my account usage at $60 over a two week period. I got tons of hits, but no one stayed past 5secs and of course there were no look see if I want, or nothing like that. Of course I have the ability to track visits to my site and realized that these clicks were being computer generated or they were paying someone from different locations to simply click on my site for a click count. I was relieved that more money had not been spent for this fake advertisement.

By: tom

tom — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:53:13 +0000

I can only say that Cunningham and Chumley are illiterate morons. I could spell better than that in the first grade.

By: Kannodle Scammed Advertiser

Kannodle Scammed Advertiser — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:30:43 +0000

Inderd they scam everyone, someone should get them to court!

I spent a “humble” 100 $, I even heard about people loosing 5.000 $+ on their scamgame.

By: Click Fraud and The Need for Third Party Verification

Click Fraud and The Need for Third Party Verification — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:05:32 +0000

[...] (Google, Yahoo and MSN) and second, third and fourth tier networks which included GenieKnows, Kanoodle (now Seavast), Miva, Accoona and others. Inflated figures in the 14 – 21% range are not [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:36:28 +0000

I have just finished a trial with them and stopped it after 2 days. There is definite click fraud going on there. I started a campaign at a $0.20 cpc across the board (relatively low for us) and the campaign started spending $100 a day (ask only spends $200 and has way more market share). Don’t use these guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Contextual Advertising | Product Search Guide

Contextual Advertising | Product Search Guide — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:18:30 +0000

[...] in a few years ago with click fraud. At least that is what was reported on Search Engine Journal http://www.searchenginejournal.com/kanoodle-and-click-fraud/2235/. The way Kanoodle generated the traffic was suspect and more than one customer noted the problems. [...]

By: princess the ruler

princess the ruler — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:43:25 +0000

same thing for me – i posted the kanoodleisfraud.com website after my experience, i too was amazed at first at how much traffic was being generated at almost half of what it cost me to market on adsense but then after i hired am auditing company to review and analyze my site i found out the exact same thing, I’m looking now to see if they have been brought up in class action

By: Glenn Chumley

Glenn Chumley — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:00:37 +0000

I started using Kanoodle several about 6 weeks ago. I am a regularly PPC advertiser with Google and am ranked in the top 6 for most keywords in my industry.

Kanoodle started to generate twice my Google traffic in no time for only 5 Cents a click. I was amazed. My Webalizer showed the extra 200 plus hits coming to my site. However, I saw no conversions.

I then decided to use a “live chat” software so I could see in real time the actual traffic coming to my site. The software will also show me in real time the keyword string and what Search Engine is generating it.

This is when I saw with my own eyes the scam Kanoodle is running.

They started in the first week allowing about 75 hits a day to come to my site. At 5 cents each, this is a bargain. After 2 weeks without telling them anything is fishy with their traffic, they upped the volume to 200. This is only $10 a day, no big deal. They then suggested Contextual Ads at $.30 a click on average. This is where the scam really takes hold.

They started to jam me with 50 -60 contextual clicks a day, where with Google, my contextual traffic is only 10 clicks a day and I am in the top 5.

Furthermore, their keywords that generated 30-40 clicks a day, on Google, the same words were generating me 1 or 2 clicks.

I finally saw with my live chat software how there hits come to my site and don’t move from page to page. In fact, they don’t even click off. They stay for 20 minutes and leave. I know for fact that many of my hits are for 2 minutes or less. Many are longer, but I can co-browse with the live chat software and see where they are.

After reading your article about computer generated hits, I agree this is what they do.

I brought this to their attention and now they are avoiding me like the plaque.

Glenn Chumley