Clicksor Advertising Sucks

Don't sign up for Clicksor advertising. I'll show you why!

When you first sign up to Clicksor, they automatically accept any site you put in. They call this the "Trial" status. During this time your site should be reviewed and and either accepted or denied.

So it makes perfect sense that two and a half months later, my site is still in trial. Nevermind that my site had 21,566 advertisement views according to my Clicksor reports, they just never got around to approving it. I joined up September 23rd and they never even reviewed my site.

Seriously. The ads load so slow it's embarrassing. In fact, sometimes they don't even load at all, your site just hangs while the banner is loading, and you are forced to refresh the entire page just to load the content in Firefox. This is because Clicksor does not generate code in an iframe, you have to load it directly on your page. Don't believe me, just google "Clicksor ads slow down site" and tell me what you see. The banners are not even CPM, you are getting paid around $.03 per click on barely targeted ads, which slow your site to a crawl. The pop up CPM rate is terrible too, you will get only about $.50 CPM for 1000 pop ups.

I had about $10.24 in my account. Every once in awhile, I would take off Clicksor ads just because I got frustrated with the slowness. When I had signed up, I signed up to these rules. They had your basic, nothing illegal, don't modify code, and don't click your own ads TOS. However, the rules were recently changed to this, without a warning email of new policy or an update on the publisher login pages. Want to know how I found out about these new rules?

Around the start of November, I was trying to get code for this website. When I did so, I got an error that said, "Your site/account is not allowed to get code." I assumed it was just a temporary error in the site and emailed my account manager. Yeah, they have great customer support. Once I sent the email, he sent me two suspension notices and a reply to my question, with his version of the updated rules. No warnings. Just two new rules that he could use to screw me.

• Participating sites must have 5,000 page views per day.
• Participating sites cannot be proxy sites or contain link(s) to such service.

Nowhere in the original rules does it say those two rules. They updated, did not even make an attempt to make it known the rules revised were in the place, and then suspended my site and took back all remaining balance that I was supposed to be paid. Part of my hits were coming from the open proxy I had running, which was recently made against the rules. Clicksor will claim that proxies have always been against the rules. That brings me back to my first point, that Clicksor does not check your site when you first sign up. They will not review it until you've made a decent amount of money, then tell you that your site is unacceptable. In fact, I have the feeling that if I never sent that email to my account manager, I would have never been suspended in the first place, they had no clue what was on my site. Even though I had over 21,566 ad views for them, they never checked my site and approved or disapproved it.

I've received comments users that visited my site while Clickor was running about Mcafee virus scan having problems. Here are two screenshots from forums complaining about it.

How would you like to have to explain to a visitor why your site made their virus scanner go crazy? As soon as I saw two users post that, I sent an email to my fantastic account manager at Clicksor. I informed him that I would not run the ads again until the malicious programs in them were completely gone from my advertising.

He told me that I should screenshot it next time it happens or describe the ad. First off, when something makes my virus scanner go off, I tend to close that window, so I can't describe it and neither can the people who had it happen to them. I wouldn't screenshot it either, I'm more concerned about finding out what just happened to my computer, let alone what ad caused this to happen. Besides that, nobody will see the virus again, because I just said, I'm not going to run the ads anymore until the problem is fixed. I did not feel like exposing myself and users to malicious code for a couple bucks. Although I can help by aiding Clicksor in finding the ads that cause problems, wouldn't a better policy be to actually review the ads before they run, so someone can't even run ads with malicious code in the first place?

There are hundreds of advertising companies, and I can't recommend one exactly, but don't make the same mistake I did and sign up for Clicksor advertising. You'll only lose visitors with slow loading pages and the occasional user who just had their virus scanner go off while visiting your site.

I'd have to agree. I have clicksor ads on my blog. Earnings aren't too good. I don't think there are really any good PPC programs that pay through PayPal. It's either really hard to earn or really easy to get banned.

11-13-2006

I've recently signed up with Google's AdSense program. Seems to work well, and it blends well with the site. Check them out!

http://www.google.com/adsense
I REALLY should get my referral link in that ^

Mind you, I haven't gotten paid yet, so they might suck just as bad. But for now, they seem okeydoke.

11-13-2006

Yeah, Adsense is nice, until you realize their minimum payment is $100 and it would take a long time to reach that.

01-21-2007

Clicks0r really really sucks, I have tried both publisher and advertiser.

I got paid once when i was a publisher then my account got banned for "invalid clicks", lost over $1000. I contacted them for more detail, and this guy with really poor english replied me saying "our monitor team report to me your account is invalid click"...I replied that message and i hear no response anymore.
For my advertising story I spent $30 on my PPC campaign, all the credits are gone in 24 hours and I didnt even get a single sale from my new site.

Clicks0r=bad company. Don't even try to use them.

03-08-2007

Anyone know a good site (that really pays) and its not like min $100 to take out, because I really want to be a member and no1 will make me. Please post, I love this website, keep up the good work Gary

Your friend,
Steve

06-19-2008

Become a member in runescape, sorry I wasn't clear on my last topic.

06-19-2008

I personally use adbrite. They payout in way smaller amounts, and will pay by regular mail just like adsense. They really help small to medium sites to start earning income.

http://www.adbrite.com/mb/landing_both.php?spid=31280

06-19-2008

i get 100+ a month on a proxy.

this is a nice site i would buy.

08-24-2008

september 23 is my b'day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

09-02-2008

Another annoyance on clicksor is that they will enable so many in-text ads without your permission. Many means so many that your visitor will surely get annoyed.

09-16-2008

While I generally use adsense for my own pages, I recently visited a page w/ clicksor ads and it itself (without question) had a large popup ad that scrolled everywhere, was completely uncloseable, and immediately set off my virus program and adware immediately went nuts. Popups, malicious sites, the works! I could not want to punch them in the face more!

12-19-2008

I agree totally. Clicksor sucks. I recommend you if you wanna serve ads, you should join Nuffnang. I serve their ads too, only 3 ads can earn about S$1.20 for me.

12-20-2008

Uh, one more thing to tell you is this site, http://www.svr1.cursorhost.com serve Clicksor ads too. And that "Sorry", dosen't even make sense. When i hovered that link "Sorry", clicksor ads appeared and said "We'll show you the best sites related to Sorry." Dosen't make sense.

12-20-2008

agree with you on trojans. I got fckued in the forums coz i posted my sites and i was banned coz of stupid clicksor.

now i use clicksor popunders for some junk site that i have about whose traffic i dont care. still make about a dollar everyday. left it at that. will withdraw in a year maybe! :-)

http://d29f0186.thatsprime.com/

02-03-2009

I gave up clicksor and now make about $4 from 2000 UVs everyday. Not better than Adsense, but close enough.
This is my aff link (if at all you are registering, please use this - there is no harm, is there? :-) )
http://www.adbrite.com/mb/landing_both.php?spid=96344

02-03-2009

hello... i read your post and i wonder what would be the more reliable ad site? please help me .. i have a blog site and i want to place an ad to my site... please email me if you have time...
i forgot to tell my site is with adult content... thanx.. and more power.. keep an sharing your idea..

03-07-2009

DAMN CLICKSOR! IS THERE ANYONE THAT CAN HELP ME HOW TO GET RID OF THIS INLINE CLICKSOR ADS BECAUSE I DIDN\'T PUBLISH MY SITE AT CLICKSOR, MAYBE SOMEONE DID IT!

03-16-2009

Try Panizon Ads (http://www.panizon.com), they are another pay per click provider in Canada.

03-31-2009

I avoid all sites using clicksore (virus packed) ads.
Clicksore - the festering sore of the internet.

05-07-2009

They are having that adware issue since quite long. I thought they had settled it down untill now. Oh god. And BTW the popups are of no use cos every one uses a popup blocker.

05-19-2009

I have found Clickor ads or something loading and taking a lot of time when opening my site a few times. I also noticed that the clicks in my AdSense account decreasing on such days and a few days more. I was concerned and checked back the sites I visited and there too Clicksor popups were loading. They had nothing from Clicksor but widgets greeting visitors, some stats counters, etc. I think they are using other sites to illegally install codes and the visitors to these sites are also affected. Are they SKYJACKING the clicks on my AdSense Ads and redirecting to other accounts? I get about 8000 page hits a day from all my blogs/sites, with an average $7 a day. But when I feel the Clicksor loading, the average page hits are the same but the earnings/clicks on ads are reduced to about 30%. Are the diverting clicks on my ads? Will anyone help me telling the truth or how to avoid the trouble?

05-31-2009

I was trying various ad programs. I inserted the Clicksor code into my ad widget and loaded my site at work. Boom! 3 popups and the IT web filtering flagged virus on 1 and other suspicious warnings for the other two! I removed Clicksor from my site immediately.

07-25-2009

I dont use ads since I dont get enough traffic (not much of any actually) to worry about site costs, but I have used sites that link to clicksor and their ads are so shitty (and virus infested) that I had my router block connections to any of the domains holding clicksor ad content.

09-20-2009

what the FUCK is clicksor

09-28-2009

How the FUCK should I know! I just work here.

09-29-2009

I have used Clicksor on and off on many sites, with varied success. Unfortunately the most lucatrive ads are pop unders, which are super frustrating to any user. My recommendation is stick with google adsense. If you are banned from adsense then you might want to check out adbrite, which is probably the next best alternative.

12-02-2009

Clicksor advertising is a repeat offender of malware and should not be used!

I have asked them to clean up their act, but they refuse and another month later another trojan blocked... encoded and tracked back always to their adverts on varies sites. This have happened at least 6 times in the last 2 months. The latest attempt was a Trojan Downloader JavaScript.

They suck, pay people to spead viruses, block people that complain, shutdown and don't pay out some accounts and should be shutdown!

12-05-2009

If you want to make money without using popups or google ads try http://www.cpaleadfaq.blogspot.com

It will require a user to take a survey to get to see your content, to download a file, or in order to get items in a game.

-Austin

12-05-2009

Yeah, and the ads suck.

01-09-2010

the ads really are slow and its just a pain to get one of my pages to load right i like adsense or abrite forhet clicksor

02-04-2010

clicksor is really slow....

02-07-2010

visit here http://www.gtex-int.com/ to know details info about themselves.....

02-07-2010

WOW!!!!!
This site is really AWESOME!!!

02-07-2010

www.gtex-int.com is cOOl!!!

02-07-2010

I think adbrite is the best. It's very easy to use and very publisher friendly.
This is my link if u want to register.

http://www.adbrite.com/mb/landing_both.php?spid=132203&afb=125x125-1-white

02-08-2010