How I lost $400 in one day.

Discussion in 'Affiliate Programs' started by Volknet, Jan 13, 2008.

  1. #1
    It sucks to be a pay per click marketer driving traffic to a server that went offline while you were sleeping and your monitoring service didnt work... DOH.

    I lost $400 bucks while I slept last night driving traffic to a dead server. (I was hoping to hit around $3k in commissions today)

    Help make me feel better... What is your worst day of pay per click losses?
     
    Volknet, Jan 13, 2008 IP
  2. meamrussian

    meamrussian Active Member

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    #2
    I hope you feel better.

    I've never had a bad day of click losses. Know why? I don't use CPC. Google is your friend. Optimize your page for it, and you'll never have to pay a cent.
     
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  3. zorus

    zorus Peon

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    #3
    i've been wondering why your website was down
    i remeber the another day paul(ubberaff) had the same trouble and your suggest him a good hosting, at seems the unique secure is that is nothing is secure, hopefully we find some good services, i remember that your said the your hosting when has so much traffic produce an reboot, at seems in this ocassion shuld be an hard disk - hardware damage, ¿do you know what happened???
     
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  4. fasttrack

    fasttrack Banned

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    #4
    Well that is a learning experience :)
     
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  5. atravelare

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    Haven't used it because of your experience. Don't have the funds to play around with. Hoping to build up then add that on later... Any suggestions you may give would I am sure be helpful.
     
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  6. Exilus

    Exilus Banned

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    #6
    My brother lost 15,000$ over 2 months when google release their "ad network". Some day he went into his account and saw he lost 15k...


    Shit happens...
     
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  7. Shoemoney

    Shoemoney $

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    we wrote some in house scripts that would pause campaigns if servers were down. I am surprised some of the ppc software management does not have this.
     
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    zacdavis Well-Known Member

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    Jeremy, not every is as smart as you.
     
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  9. TuesZ

    TuesZ Well-Known Member

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    Yea but some are smart enough to go ahead and hire someone to code this up
     
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  10. WallaceYeung

    WallaceYeung Notable Member

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    #10
    $400 is not a big deal while you are earning thousands dollars a day. :rolleyes:
     
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  11. Volknet

    Volknet Peon

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    While it may not break my bank I would have rather spent the $400 on guitar hero or rock band or something fun :p
     
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  12. speed100

    speed100 Peon

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    #12
    Once,while i was sleeping :),my host went down and all,ALL my website,all 20 of my beautiful money making website went down. If i had gun at the moment i would shot myself in the leg just to feel better. You can imagine the content of my email when i was quiting from the host. I change to hostgator and everything is OK so far.
    Also, once i lost $150 in half hour on one keyword.It was something like "baron marquis" or similar. Yahoo did some story about this guy and it was on the front page for 25-30 min.It happened that i have this keyword in one of my campaigns and when i check the stats it was too late.The worst thing is that i didn't have not even one lead with the keyword.
     
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  13. TEGS

    TEGS Peon

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    O.K.
    How about the other direction, Whats the most you've made in one day using adsense.

    Also I'm curious what is considered a good adcost / payout ratio?
     
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  14. operalover

    operalover Active Member

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    that's bad situation.... i never had situation like that, fortunately... i'm just starting...
     
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    Cluster Active Member

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    #15
    i have to agree with that
     
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    #16
    that is not the worst .. imagine someone, who put more than 3k in AdWords and just made a mistake typing his url...
     
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  17. zorus

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    I like the shoemoney answer, but i don't have any idea about how implement a script that can stop campaign, because it should be communicate with adwords api, and this is a obscure part to me, but how we to know if the server is down is completely feasible in php
     
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  18. speed100

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    So you think that if you are making more money than $400 is worth less than $400?
    This is serious money, it doesn't matter if you make them in an hour,day or month.If you put this money in PPC you will make double,than double that again,now $400 is $1600 if you understand how this works.
     
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    btsx Well-Known Member

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    Did this actually happen to you?
     
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  20. Volknet

    Volknet Peon

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    Yea. I was wondering that too.
     
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