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How about I give you real time updates of my experiences with them? I just signed up a week ago and this is what has happened so far:
1. Signed up a three-year-old PR4 site. When I registered, I got a coupon for $100 off of text link buys. I used it, spending $65 of my own money to advertise on two competing websites. I was hoping just to tick them off but they accepted my links. Links have been up for a few days and I'm getting zilch from them in referrals.
2. I put their code on my site and fumed for 24 hours as their script put a pointless TEXT LINK AD box on my site to check the code. That's exactly what it said and it boiled me to see that. They could at least make it a useful PSA or something. Stupid.
3. My site was accepted within 24 hours of signing up. I had no questions or contact from them.
4. Decided to sign up another site -- a PR5, DMOZ listed, heavily linked top of category type of site. My pride and joy. It was approved INSTANTLY. No questions asked.
5. I coded the PR5 site and watched as it sat on my homepage for SIX DAYS. I wrote in to complain. They sent me back a generic email saying I installed the code wrong. Sorry, I've been doing this for 10 years now and I had installed their code successfully not 24 hours before in a like manner. Now I was pissed.
6. I fired off another email complaining of this and the fact that they did not have a relevant category for my sites.
7. Got an email back in about two hours -- the ugly thing was gone from my page and my two sites headed up the new category. About frickin' time.
8. Got my notice today -- 10/6 -- that my sites and links are available for sale officially. We'll see how long it takes.
My sites are exceptionally seasonal. I get 5000 uniques a day now and will hit more than 60,000 per day come December. Alexa ranking goes goo-goo every year. We'll see if anyone picks up on this via their marketplace. I sell links myself for these sites. But I want something more automatic.
Let's see how they do.
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