Trafficvance or Sitescout? (6)
I have a campaign running on adcenter that is decently profitable but gets little traffic.
It is a news style landing page for skincare offers. It converts good.
I need suggestions on where to expand from here. Should I go with SiteScout or Trafficvance? I am new to both.
I have found some good placements for my ads through WRW so I am leaning more towards PPV because I can popup my ads before the visitor can see the banners on the site 
but I have heard that it is a very unforgiving traffic source for newbies
Would appreciate some insight from people who have done this already 
Thanks
Well I've been trying to sign up with sitescout since July 17th.
I signed up and received a confirmation email and got a HTTP error when I clicked the verify link.
I've tried logging in many times with the same login info I used during signing up but it's rejected every time: login failed.
Since then I have clicked the 'forgotten password' link on the login dialog about 14 times and clicked the verification link each time to see a blank page with "success:true" ajax response and nothing more.
I did all this in Firefox which Sitescout say is one of their two supported browsers: firefox & safari.
Then I tried calling them, goes to voicemail and their voice mailbox is full.
So for me, trying to use sitescout thus far has been a very sucky experience.
Sean K.
I would start with Sitescout in this case, because the mindset of a PPV viewer is much different and they are less inclined to give their credit card info to some ad that is interrupting them. But really you should try both
contact@sitescout.com
They reply quickly.
@seank, i didnt have any trouble signing up. my campaign got approved quickly as well even though I haven't added a credit card yet
Maybe you should try it in chrome.
you are right brian, i think i'll start with sitescout, considering it is much easier to track and optimize everything there compared to PPV. It's just that sitescout has such a low barrier to entry, i feel most verticals would already have a ton of competition. but i'm still gonna try it out. thanks
@wannabe, yes I'm hoping this is only a temporary technical glitch because I really want to try out SiteScout
Ok, I have to apologise here, the issue with my sitescout password reset not working was because of an issue in my own mailserver.
I'm running my own email server that I wrote myself and there was a bug in the message decoding that caused the sitescout links to contain strange characters.
It's fixed now and the sitescout links work just fine, woohoo!
All my fault, wasn't a sitescout problem after all. Phew!
Looking forward to seeing what their traffic is like now that I've created my first campaign and waiting for them to approve my creditcard...
Sean K.
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