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Agloco Encouraging Click Fraud ?
We’ve been tracking the progress of Agloco since the very beginnng and although we are not promoting Agloco nor recommendng it, we still are receiving the updates from them on a regular basis. Although Agloco was virally marketed and caught the attention of hundreds of thousands of people, it still seems like a snow job to us. Beside the fact that the toolbar is packed with spyware and left a virus on the computer we installed it on and beside the fact nobody has seen a single dime in earnings, suddenly we’re beginning to wonder how low can Agloco go. On Monday we received the following email from Agloco Member Coordinator Danny Jorgensen which appears to be a case of Aglogo encouraging “click+fraud“. Here’s the email.
| Our first data points are in with our AGLOCO/Ask search system. Average net revenue for AGLOCO per click is already over US$0.20 – the average Member click through rate on ads on the Ask search page - 20% to 25% of the time the ad is clicked on (one ad click for every 4 to 5 searches).
If every AGLOCO Member did 4 to 5 Ask searches a day and they clicked on average just one ad, the revenue generated for the AGLOCO community would be US$6.00 per month per Member. This would be a great start to building revenue for Member distributions. AGLOCO’s challenge is to get every Member to have the Viewbar open all the time and to use the Ask search box to make their searches. If you haven’t used the Viewbar to do an Ask search. We implore you to do it now. Member feedback on the Ask search results has been extremely favorable (most Members reporting they rate Ask results as good as Google’s or better.). If you have had problems with getting a download of the new Viewbar, we added CNET’s Download.com Click here to go to their site to have fast download. http://www.download.com/Viewbar/3000-2381-10753362.html?part=dl-Viewbar& subj=uo&tag=button The Company Blog www.blog.agloco.com has updates on many issues like Member Distributions and company finances. Also, there is a discussion of the idea of making your AGLOCO hours salable now. Visit the blog and you can comment on this. Danny Jorgensen |
While I’m not exactly sure how Ask.com handles their advertising program (honestly, I wasn’t aware they had one) but I know that Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher Network strictly prohibit publishers from encouraging people to click on ads. Apparently Ask.com doesn’t have such rules in place or Agloco is blatantly ingnoring them by pushing this emailto members and enticing them to click on more ads to make the program more revenue. Either way, it once again shows the lack of fundamental principles of internet affiliate publishing and throws more egg on Agloco’s already sullied face.
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