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11-01-2011 10:44 PM #1 ppchound (Member)
Is 7Search a three-legged donkey?

Just ran 36,098 impressions on 7Search. This yielded 140 clicks and ZERO conversions.
WTF?

Considering this a simple zip submit, I really cannot figure why this is so bad.

11-01-2011 11:13 PM #2 heavyt (Senior Member)

thing with 7 search is always set your bids the lowest you can go test like that an then raise bids, target real specific, and remember some is bot traffic not alot but its there.

11-01-2011 11:14 PM #3 ironsight (Member)

I'm going through the same thing. So far I've done dating and email/zip, but not having very much success. I'm also having difficulties passing subid's and domains. I'm sure if I can find out which one of their partners are sending poor traffic then I can block them. I have it set up with 7Search but i'm probably not setting up the tokens right.

11-01-2011 11:17 PM #4 ppchound (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by heavyt View Post
thing with 7 search is always set your bids the lowest you can go test like that an then raise bids, target real specific, and remember some is bot traffic not alot but its there.
Thanks Morgan. Appreciate your input man.

11-01-2011 11:18 PM #5 ppchound (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by ironsight View Post
I'm going through the same thing. So far I've done dating and email/zip, but not having very much success. I'm also having difficulties passing subid's and domains. I'm sure if I can find out which one of their partners are sending poor traffic then I can block them. I have it set up with 7Search but i'm probably not setting up the tokens right.
do you have &keyword=###KEYWORD### in your link?

11-01-2011 11:35 PM #6 ironsight (Member)

Yup but to get their partner info you have to add the ###AFFID### and ###RID### which I've done, but I'm doing something wrong somewhere. I'm trying to pass the info through CPVLab using that extra token option but nothin is showing in the stats section.

11-02-2011 10:24 AM #7 ppchound (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by ironsight View Post
Yup but to get their partner info you have to add the ###AFFID### and ###RID### which I've done, but I'm doing something wrong somewhere. I'm trying to pass the info through CPVLab using that extra token option but nothin is showing in the stats section.
I think you have to add the AFFID and RID tokens in the form:

yourlink&keyword=###KEYWORD###-###AFFID###-###RID###

so they are concantenated with the keyword and separated by a hyphen. For CVPLab to grab additional tokens it requires tokens in the form &token1=token1contents etc.

Hope that helps you.

11-02-2011 10:34 AM #8 ppchound (Member)

Having just thought about my previous post again, I really don't see why using

yourlink&keyword=###KEYWORD###&affid=###AFFID###&r id=###RID###

and capturing keyword, affid and rid wouldn't work. I'll test this and report back.

11-02-2011 01:36 PM #9 ppchound (Member)

OK @ironsite I've now finished my (successful) testing. To correctly use the additional tokens use:

Code:
                  Name            URL Append                   Parameter

Extra Token 1     affid           &affid=###AFFID###           affid
Extra Token 2     rid             &rid=###RID###               rid
in your campaign setup. Then, you can view the tokens captured within

Campaigns -> Stats

Hope that helps

11-02-2011 02:48 PM #10 polarbacon (Moderator)

they make 4 legged donkeys?

I have to find a new source for donkeys.....

11-02-2011 03:25 PM #11 heavyt (Senior Member)

Mine are shaved, my donkey that is

11-03-2011 05:44 PM #12 ironsight (Member)

@ppchound... So I guessing my problem was that I didn't capitalize the affid & rid in between the hash marks. I'm going to run it and see what we get!

Thanks for the assistance!

11-03-2011 08:25 PM #13 ironsight (Member)

Now we're in business!

Thanks again!

11-08-2011 05:41 AM #14 markl (Member)

I've made a handful of conversions with 7 search.

11-08-2011 02:05 PM #15 ppchound (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by markl View Post
I've made a handful of conversions with 7 search.
Did you find it hard going?

11-09-2011 02:07 AM #16 vikastm (Member)

This article might help...

http://www.dirtymarketer.com/step-by...s-via-7search/

11-09-2011 02:51 AM #17 pancakes (Member)



So long 7Search, it was nice knowing ya.

11-09-2011 03:33 AM #18 harry1970 (Member)

shit traffic, shit traffic, shit traffic

11-09-2011 08:34 AM #19 ppchound (Member)

Yikes! That Quancast graph is more like a bomb trajectory. It also exactly mapped my happiness level while running the campaign

11-09-2011 11:06 PM #20 htgred (Member)

I just read this article and it made me think of this thread.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/te...ud-scheme.html

02-12-2012 05:13 PM #21 hd2010 (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by vikastm View Post
This article might help...

http://www.dirtymarketer.com/step-by...s-via-7search/
whose website is this ? he/she seem to know about STM

02-12-2012 05:51 PM #22 jonemd (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by harry1970 View Post
shit traffic, shit traffic, shit traffic
says someone who clearly can't make it work. I've got some low volume but extremely profitable campaigns over there now. I like them.

02-13-2012 09:06 PM #23 lixor (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by jonemd View Post
I've got some low volume but extremely profitable campaigns over there now. I like them.
there are 24 hours in a day, let's say you can dedicate half of this to making money, do you want to work on $100/day campaigns or on $1,000 and more?

02-16-2012 07:23 PM #24 Ryan Eagle ()

I've actually heard of some publishers making it work. I've previously made it work with really general campaigns - penny auction, etc.

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