This review will be useful for many blogger and website owners how are interested in finding some good alternate to the AdSense. If you search other contextual advertisement system so may come across a so called website clicksor . I have made a account with them last month. The first apparent thing I like with this that I have a account manager who will assist me of any problem. In my case I was assigned somebody known as Amy,
I was very happy making my account (getting approved) with clicksor initially and tried to generate a code for 468 x 60 pixel the ad I selected was only a text and image ad. I did not selected any other option.
I inserted the code in my blog and found that in line text advertisement is also activated without my choice or without me opting for it, I sent an email to my account manager.
Just after few hours I received the reply,
From: Amy Pan
Date: Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:34 PM
Subject: RE: Publisher Support
To: *******@gmail.comHi,
I have disabled the text links for you. Please also change your inline code as shown below:
“clicksor_enable_text_link = trueâ€
to
“clicksor_enable_text_link = falseâ€Please allow 30 minutes for the text link to deactivated on your site.
If you have any more questions, please feel free to contact me.
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Best regards,
Amy Pan
Publisher Account Manager
E-mail: amypan@clicksor.com
Phone: 1-212-400-7685 Ext. 2815
(9 am. to 6 pm. EST)
Fax: 1-212-658-9138
After looking at my ad code I realized it was already “clicksor_enable_text_link = false†but even then it was displaying inline text link. Anyhow it was disabled after about an hour.
Few days after clicksor tried to installed some malicious code on my website visitors and my website get stuck in browser ( an enormous increase in downtime) and after spending a lot of time to troubleshoot and bug fixing I found that just by removing the clicksor code website become normal again and its downtime came back to normal. I reported the matter to clicksor and got these two emails in reply.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:54 PM, <*******@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Amy,
>
> I do not know why I was facing problem in downtime of my website in
> browser and usually it get stuck in half way. Just by removing
> Clicksor Code from web page have fixed the issue?
>
> Is there any problem at your end?
>
> Regards
>
From: Amy Pan
Date: Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:54 PM
Subject: RE: Is there any problem or known issue at your end?To: *******@gmail.com
Hi,
I am sorry about any inconvenience has brought to you.
Our Technician Department is trying to locate this problem now. There will
be an e-mail sent to you once I hear back for them shortly. Please remove
the Clicksor Ad code from your site temporarily until the problem is solved.Thanks for your co-operations!
Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions.
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Best regards,
Amy Pan
Publisher Account Manager
E-mail: amypan@clicksor.com
Phone: 1-212-400-7685 Ext. 2815
(9 am. to 6 pm. EST)
Fax: 1-212-658-9138
A follow up email was
From: Amy Pan
Date: Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Subject: RE: Is there any problem or known issue at your end?Hi,
This is Amy, publisher account manager, from Clicksor.com
I am writing to inform you that the technical problems reported last week is
fixed by our IT Team already. Please feel free to obtain the ads code under
“Ad Setupâ€, and insert it to your site.I am sincerely sorry about any inconvenience this has brought to you. Please
do not hesitate to contact me if you need any further assistance in the
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and visit us at CLICKSOR BOOTH #1756!Subscribe with our blog now and get tips and updates!
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Best regards,
Amy Pan
Publisher Account Manager
E-mail: amypan@clicksor.com
Phone: 1-212-400-7685 Ext. 2815
(9 am. to 6 pm. EST)
Fax: 1-212-658-9138
After receiving this email I tried once again with clicksor and started displaying their ads on my site. But yesterday (28 April 2009) they once again tried to install a malicious code via their advertisement. Now I have permanently removed their ads and will not trust them any more.
Here is a copy of email communication on this
Dear Sir/Madam,
This is 2nd time your ads code jammed my site, Now once gain I had to
remove your ad code and site work fine. I can easily see in the
browser status bar that when it is loading ads from your partner or
your server it get stuck and browser crash. You can not imagine how
much this has added to a bad repute for my site as this is 2nd time in
a month.
Anyhow I am no longer interested in such poor quality of services.
Kindly pay me the money I have earned so for via my paypal account.
Regards
Hi,
Can I know if you use IE or other browser to load your page with our Ads
code? Please try to insert the code again and see if it works find with IE
properly. If not, please remove the ad code and let me know, our IT
Department will locate and fix the problems for you.Do not hesitate to contact me if you have more questions.
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Best regards,
Amy Pan
Publisher Account Manager
E-mail: amypan@clicksor.com
Phone: 1-212-400-7685 Ext. 2815
(9 am. to 6 pm. EST)
Fax: 1-212-658-9138
But How I can trust them again, No and never,
Hi Publisher,
According to your posting, our Clicksor Rep has been assisting you and replying your tickets/emails to resolve the problems. In regards to the inline text link, we have actually stated in the “Support†area of Clicksor Publisher Member area:
1) Inline Text Link
Publishers can manually disable the text links by changing the line of ad code
‘clicksor_enable_text_link = true’
to
‘clicksor_enable_text_link = false’
Please also contact our publisher representative to have the inline text link option removed from your site.
2) IE Problem
Based on the correspondence that you had with Amy (Clicksor Rep), she has tried hard to provide full customer support by following up with IT Dept to fix the IE problem. Since each of the website is using unique script, coding, our IT would require the collaboration from our publishers in providing needed info to test the ad code and locate the actual problem.
As you may know, the different script writing could cause some conflicts and therefore, we have our IT Dept to assist us in resolving the problems for our publishers. It is recommended to resolve the problems for your website in order to maximize your monetizing opportunities. However, you have chosen to remove our ad code and we are not able to locate the actual problem for you.
3) Malicious Ad
This could be due to a violated ad campaign that uses our network to deliver malicious ad. We would need the Ad URL, Visitor’s IP address, or time and date to locate the advertisement and suspend it immediately. If you have the data, please provide them to us as soon as possible.
Dear Clicksor Staff,
1) I have mentioned that clicksor_enable_text_link = false was already set to false even then you were displaying inlink ads without my permission. See the emails record above in the post.
2) What should I do with your so called support if you are actually spreading malicious codes and browser hijacks in your advertisements.
3) Infact you have admitted “This could be due to a violated ad campaign that uses our network to deliver malicious ad.” shame on you clicksor that you are promoting malicious codes.
Suspension ? Haas lame excuse why you allow malicious code in the first instance ? Are you aware of any resulting loss due to your malicious ads?
Shame Shame Shame, I am never ever going to use your services nor I recommend any body.
I never knew that clicksor would so such kind of behaviour.