Title: Overtures PPC needs a major overhaul

More and more sites are seen in the sponsored results
in Yahoo and other major search engines today using
overtures PPC plan. The search results and keyword(s)
used to pull up such sites is a reminder to a common
question who uses this service; Why is my money all
gone and nothing to show for all those click throughs?

I had several sites under one account with overtures PPC
and when I received a notice stating " you have exhausted
the funds in your Overture account" I began to investigate
this growing problem because now, all of my sites are not
listed any longer, I have spent all my money and I still
didn't receive any sales from all of this "so called
traffic" overture said I was getting.

My findings were totally shocking when I tried to generate
reports, which were 3 weeks old, the reports had data not
relevent to how much I spent on the amount of clicks I
received.

Another mind twister they throw at you is the fact when
your money runs out, shutting down your account, they get
rid of the number of hits you "so called received". So,
when my account runs out of money and my sites are taken
off the listings, I cannot find how all this money I just
spent was actually exhausted. This happened so fast with
so little evidence of why!?

I went a few steps further into my investigation and
found through my web logs that the amount of traffic I
was getting to my sites didn't match up to the "so called
clicks" I received according to overture.

So who's telling the truth here? Is there a glich in my web
logs or is overture hiding the real true way they take your
money and providing an automatic click through?

My sales conversion clearly says so. I received all this
massive traffic and not one sale. Our sites are designed
and optimized to sell our services and while using other
means of traffic, clearly justifies my findings.

Just like any ad campaign on the web and you can't tell
whether it drove anyone to your site, is it still an ad
campaign? How do we know whether the customers had clicked
on the URL's in our paid listing when we cannot find out
how, when or where?

I use web Analytics as the process of measuring and
analyzing the effectiveness of my e-business websites in
terms of customer experience, return on investment, and
site effectiveness. Now, my website collects massive amounts
of site visitors and usage data, but how do I analyze the
data to provide a better customer experience and determine
ROI if overture doesn't provide any kind of current or
updated information?

Overture, you need a major overhaul and you just lost
a valued customer. My search results will rely heavily
from now on with another PPC....Wake up!

Sincerely,
Chairman, CEO
Steven Boaze
Copywriteplus.com

 

You said it, man!

 

Much Agreed!

 

I can fully appreciate your position bopub, but I don't think that spamming forums with your cut and paste, hit and run tactics are going to do much for you. Assuming what you've posted is true, I think you would find it much more effective had you first introduced yourself in the intro forum and then posted a real topic instead of a cut 'n paste letter.

Another one post wonder I'd be willing to wager.