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Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

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Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

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Post by sokoloff »

marcinzm wrote: post #5

Hard to know how much is ad fraud and how much is people just not being interested in what is being advertised. Don't see why I should care about yet another webinar especially if I'm already a successful CEO and get five thousand webinar requests a day. Might click for more info but then after 10 seconds on the page (and seeing it's more BS) I'll probably bail. Same as this quote: >“You’ll see the call to action is…

"But we tested different call to action buttons, and 'Request Demo' was the one that had the highest click-through rate, so we went with that one..."

Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

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Post by chinathrow »

motohagiography wrote: post #10

I lost a couple of thousand dollars using their services (literally 5x my ad budget) because they "refill" your ad account based on the ceiling you intend to spend - without an email notification or other notification in your main profile. It cycled through my ~$300 ad budget and charged me that amount multiple times before I caught it on my bill. Never received the refund they said they'd send either. People say tha…

Perfect for small claims court if you are US based.

Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

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Post by the-dude »

LeonM wrote: post #7

I advertised on LI about a year ago. I had reasonable success (in terms of new leads/signups). Here is what I remember from the experience. I found that the interface for managing ads was terribly buggy and shouldn't even be considered production ready. One bug that I remember is that it wasn't possible to remove ads, and the button to suspend an add didn't work most of the time. In typical LI fashion the interface w…

Sounds like a feature, not a bug, to me.

Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

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Post by Nextgrid »

chinathrow wrote: post #13
motohagiography wrote: post #10

I lost a couple of thousand dollars using their services (literally 5x my ad budget) because they "refill" your ad account based on the ceiling you intend to spend - without an email notification or other notification in your main profile. It cycled through my ~$300 ad budget and charged me that amount multiple times before I caught it on my bill. Never received the refund they said they'd send either. People say tha…

Perfect for small claims court if you are US based.

Or a chargeback for that matter.

Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

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Post by mathattack »

LeonM wrote: post #7

I advertised on LI about a year ago. I had reasonable success (in terms of new leads/signups). Here is what I remember from the experience. I found that the interface for managing ads was terribly buggy and shouldn't even be considered production ready. One bug that I remember is that it wasn't possible to remove ads, and the button to suspend an add didn't work most of the time. In typical LI fashion the interface w…

Strange. I always thought the reason they weren’t improving the Consumer end user GUI was because they focused monetization on Enterprise. I guess it was crap all around. (Perhaps they under invest because they have such a defensible position as the one place for online resumes)

Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

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Post by mgav »

A pay-for-performance model (e.g. pay per sale) eliminates all the risk for advertisers.

Does this exist anywhere, aside from affiliate deals?

I'd be happy to pay 50% for each digital product sale, since those are 96% profit.

Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

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Post by baobabKoodaa »

> Error establishing a database connection

Based on the title I'm guessing this could have been delivered as a static web page delivered by a CDN.

I've never understood why some people want to set up their own web servers to deliver static content.

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