Review for Affinity Contextual Ads (Psss Don’t Waste Your Time)
I tried out Affinity Ads, got two 6 cent clicks and checked out like I was 6 minutes into a school lecture. I first saw Affinity on GoArticles, there weren’t many reviews for Affinity Advertising so I figured I may as well be the first to try out peaches and peanut butter. Suckily, peaches and peanut butter don’t go together but it was still worth a try.
I only used one of there two ways of displaying ads. One is text links similar to Google Adsense. The other is like a jumbled box of tags which is unlike Adsense. Either way, someone clicks and you get money. Money = Good for You.
I got two clicks. One was from myself and the other was legit. For all of you boy scouts, no I wasn’t trying to scam anybody and no I don’t click on my existing ads. I just wanted to find out if click 1 was a fluke or not so the experiment could be over. Anyways, it didn’t look like anybody got hurt.
I got sent to one of those scammy pages that tries to be all encompassing where you search for things under a general topic and then they funnel you somewhere else. In the end, I don’t even think I ended on any one individual site. I got funneled and then funneled again. I think I saw a third generic funnel-esque page and threw the white flag into the middle of the field. The flag read, “I’ve wasted enough time.”
I will say this for Affinity, they were nice to me and personally handled my account. We’re talking myself and one of the non-regular employees went back and forth to set me up. Perhaps when they get some real advertisers they can become bigger and better but that day isn’t today, it isn’t tomorrow, and it wasn’t two weeks ago.
I’m going to go ahead and let them keep the 12 cents in my account. With the interest they can earn off that, it should get the ball rolling. Maybe 2 days from now they can hit the big time.
By the way, if someone can tell me why so many companies can’t compete in the PPC racket, please inform me. Is it technology, is it greed, is it lack of publishers? I’m always minorly amazed that no one has been able to rival Google Adsense yet.