Garys Hood Bot
SubscribeClicksor Advertising Sucks
Don't sign up for Clicksor advertising. I'll show you why! Also, if you need a better advertising company I would suggest Adf.ly. I've used them since they started and have had great payout rates.
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 ValueClick Media. 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://admin.valueclickmedia.com/re.f?58505
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
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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
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05-14-2010
I saw the same problems.Now i got ads from adbrite it is better there is no minimum payout it loads easily.
Just see my blog http://www.newtricksandtips.blogspot.com
there u can see adbrite ads and also you can sign up there after
06-02-2010
I tried clicksor and and adsense
go to my site www.millionlikes.com to see how my adsense works and why it is better than any other ad netwwork
Millionlikes.com
ty :)
07-10-2010
I use Google AdSense, ADbrite and some Commission junction affiliate offers.
Honestly Adbrite Ad quality kind of sucks, ton of get rich quick, and diet scams. Has anyone used Kontera inline ads? How are they.
08-16-2010
I had Clicksor ads on my blog for a few hours I seen that I had multiple Messages about Terrible and Ugly ads running on my site.I hate the way they enable pop unders by default I only tried them to accompany my adsense ads and I have also tried Adbrite but like Clarence said Adbrite ads kinda suck also.Does anyone know of any real alternative to Adsense only on your site and please do not say bidvertise they really suck also
09-27-2010
Jeremy, You got banned for invalid clicks because you were clicking on the ads. Even if you do it on a different computer. It is the same thing with Google adsense.
10-09-2010
Thanks for the warning! If enough people read this Clicksor will have to change or nobody will ever use it.
REResources,
Google AdSense really IS good!
10-28-2010
i hate to say it but your DEAP in the dark. for instance dont visit a site that u put clicksor adds on . they dont tell u that just like any other advertizing company including google! the put a pixel virus on aech and every screen your average media has between 4 and 7 pixel viruses. if u want a 430 page list. try talking to me politely. i tend to brick peoples routers who like to piss me off.
12-11-2010
rofl Deap?
12-12-2010
How can it show mad adwares?
I use adsense for a long time and didn't lived such problem. Never use clicksor after seeing this post.
02-05-2011
It happened to me as well: I almost got banned on StackOverflow.com because I posted some links to some articles on my blog. Apparently the Clicksor ads I was using, triggered some antivirus alerts.
I will not loose my traffic for this. Also the pages were loading extremely slow. Can you recommend a good advertising company, other than Google, Adbrite and Clicksor?
02-14-2011
Great review, but it's 2006 what about now? i just sign up for clicksor and put on one of my blog. I don't know if it's work or not because it's only 1 hours ago. Previously i use adbrite and bidvertise in same blog and they suck because i've got 10.000 impression with zero earnings :(, smowtion is better although they pay very low...:( but still i made a few bucks from it. But the problem they don't allow co.cc domain and my new blog is on it. Let's see in few day and i hope clicksor will works. So far, i enjoying with adsense and trafficrevenue and i already got paid by them.
thanks for reviewing.
02-18-2011
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04-15-2011
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04-21-2011
this is a popular site.. you could easily make $100 a month from adsense
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05-08-2011
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05-15-2011
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05-28-2011
google adsense suck too i dont know which one is better now
05-30-2011
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06-04-2011
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06-07-2011
It is better to pick Google Adsense than clicksor
06-15-2011
The clicksor asserts that advertisements submitted to their network are first reviewed by a verification team for compliance with the terms of service. Advertisements will be rejected if they fail to meet these standards content. There are indications however that these standards are enforced in a lax manner, resulting in end users potentially being exposed to trojans, viruses and other forms of malware. Thanks a lot.
07-10-2011
I am not using it anymore..
07-21-2011
clicksor is doing well and is easy to use
07-30-2011
clicksor has done a good job and it is always better
07-30-2011
Today, clicksor is doing fine and did a great job. I used Google Adsense recently and after a year they suspended my account, I dont know why. Maybe they just want to get my money for their own. Today im with smowtion and clicksor which pays fine to me.
08-08-2011
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08-15-2011
please help me i just removed my blog from clicksor
but the ads are still showing olz help me
08-19-2011
I also don't really like Clicksor, there are better alternatives
08-23-2011
You can use http://clickzads.com/
09-03-2011
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09-19-2011
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09-27-2011
I have avg and I like it better than mcafee.
10-01-2011
Well It depends on the size of the website and the amount of visitors If you can, Tribal Fusion and Value Click Media are the best If you don't have much traffic you can go with Casale Media, CPX Interactive, or Right Media Exchange.
10-04-2011
Well It depends on the size of the website and the amount of visitors If you can, Tribal Fusion and Value Click Media are the best If you don't have much traffic you can go with Casale Media, CPX Interactive, or Right Media Exchange.
10-04-2011
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That does not mean your campaign is always worthwhile. It depends largely on your site/product/service. Visitors are supposed to like it
10-05-2011
ha ha ha . This information is coming at the right time. I was about signing up for this clicksor of a thing and i just decided to google what people are saying on this and i saw this great information.
It willl be better for my site http://www.havilah.info to remain without any ads than to use a ads that will slow done my site.
Thanks alot
10-09-2011
true dat,used their earnings are poor,it is a very terrible adnetwork.
10-11-2011
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10-12-2011
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10-16-2011
exactly,clicksor ads suck
10-21-2011
I thought of signing up for clicksor as i couldnt get approved by adsense but after reading your post i ve withdrawn my mind,...hope u reply me with another alternative for adsense
10-22-2011
I agree that clicksor sucks. Great article here and im glad you posted this information.
11-05-2011
Hi, i did set up clicksor account few months before but it slow down my site. It gives embarrassing adv options. Even they don't give much money as compare to google adv. I wanted to confirm that was it really slow down the site or my server was slow or I had heavy index page. After reading this article I came to know that there was problem due to clicksor adv.
11-06-2011
11-16-2011
Thanks so much for the heads up! I was just getting ready to sign up with them and found this article.
11-17-2011
wow.. I used to be searching for this and at last acquired it from this post. Thanks for making it easier.
12-15-2011
My feeling is that you can keep Clicksor. I have tried it and have found much better alternatives.
12-19-2011
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01-04-2012
clicksor is really slow and earnings are not good
you are getting paid around $.03 per click its very poor.
01-07-2012
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01-11-2012
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01-11-2012
Nice website with good information and I am pleased to have read some of them on your blog. Some were good interesting reads and others were alright but could be a little better
01-12-2012
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01-13-2012
Hmm thanks for sharing lets try it, as i had heard previously too that Clicksor Advertising Suck.
01-17-2012
I also hate clicsor, their pop up ads are annoying my web's visitors
01-17-2012
Clicsor is suck, I will never use them anymore. Thanks for revealed all this facts
01-17-2012
.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.
01-17-2012
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
01-17-2012
I just tried it and holy crap it can ruin your site layout big time, the ad placements are not as configurable as it seems, when I signed I did not even receive notification on my mail , and then when I tested it locally dammit the look feel of the ads seem like we are in the 90's , and it also modifies DOM elements of your site which make site loading slower than the usual even if they made the code defered. dont try it basically
01-21-2012
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01-23-2012
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01-24-2012
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01-25-2012
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01-25-2012
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01-25-2012
Lol I'm sorry but I started 4 days agao an my website gets 500 impressions a day... I already got my self 7 dollars? U kidding me? It's amazing not comparing to adsense in witch they ask for your SSN number....
01-25-2012
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01-28-2012
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01-29-2012
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01-29-2012
Yeah Clicsor is suck, few year ago I was used clicksor on my movie niche site called Criminal Minds full episodes but the earning is very low.
01-30-2012
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02-01-2012
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.
02-02-2012
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02-02-2012
I've been using Clicksor for quite a while and I've got to say, they have changed a lot throughout the years. The system that they use has changed dramatically and I'm getting no virus at all. IMO, I don't think you can judge Clicksor from posts since 2006 as they changed for the better. Definitely better than Google Adsense in terms of fast earnings.
02-03-2012
