Comments on: MyLikes — The Latest Player In Social Media Advertising

By: Juliette@harnesses for dogs

Juliette@harnesses for dogs — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:19:55 +0000

Intersting debate, but with all the knocking Adsense, I have to say a few things and in no particular order of importance. Adsense works as well as 1) your on page seo 2)targetting Adsense effectively 3)Ad position 4)chosen niche and what ads pay. Personally I make 50% of my f/t income from Adsense and it is a reliable stream that shouldn’t be overlooked or go unoptimized.
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By: Steve Youngs

Steve Youngs — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:53:45 +0000

Hello devizapiac!

Welcome to one of my little parts of the Internet. A quick question before I respond to your comment… Is “devizapiac” your first name, last name, or a nickname? I just want to know how to address you, and I’d really prefer to use your first name if I can.

Yes, I like their fast payment too, and even more than that is their low payout threshold. Once you hit $2.00 you get paid (as opposed to Google’s Adsense $150.00). As for numbers of advertisers with high PPC, I disagree. Yes there are a few, but the vast majority ( >90% ) are incredibly low by comparison. Also, the higher PPC ones tend to drop dramatically in rate once you begin publishing them. I had one a couple of days ago that went from $0.28 per click to $0.07 per click.

It maybe just me, but I have found that the quality of advertisers, products, and services available for promotion is VERY low, and it seems to be getting worse. When I first started with MyLikes I could easily find 3 or 4 advertisers a day to choose from to promote. Now, I’m lucky if I see one per month. The rest is complete crap that I’d never put my name to.

Anyway, thanks for commenting.
Kind regards,
Steve

By: devizapiac

devizapiac — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:59:17 +0000

They pay their publishers once a week via Paypal which is really fast and convenient.
They also have a great deal of advertisers with high PPC rate.
However, their ads are not optimized like Google Adsense.

By: Steve Youngs

Steve Youngs — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:11:54 +0000

So, from your point of view, Peter, you’d say that the investment was worth it? That’s great! I will keep them in mind for such a time that I have a product or service for sale. I don’t think I could ever justify spending money on traffic for the sake of traffic alone.

One more thing, mate… Was it a difficult or painful process? (setting up the campaign)

By: Sire

Sire — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:53:34 +0000

Traffic went through the roof once it took off and lasted for several days after. Naturally it can depend on who tweets the link and how many followers they have. Being a sex site it didn’t have many takers so it may work a lot better for a normal site.

I couldn’t have got the traffic by normal methods such as commenting as I don’t feel comfortable promoting that blog when doing so.
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By: Steve Youngs

Steve Youngs — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:28:27 +0000

How did you measure the results of your experiment? If it was by number of visitors to the site over and above the average number for a similar period, could you have achieved the same results (or better) by spending nothing more than some of your time on site promotion (twitter, facebook, etc.)? Or was it from an increase in profits from sales? If that, then was the increase greater than the expenditure? Or perhaps your measure was by some other yard stick. Care to comment?

By: Sire

Sire — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:32:47 +0000

Just an update. I tried them out as an advertiser to see whether it would boost visits to my sexual aids blog. I used a modest budget of $20 and I was pleasantly surprised with the results. Once that blog gets a little more developed, so that it has more to offer the casual visitor, I will be using that feature again.
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By: Steve Youngs

Steve Youngs — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:12:13 +0000

Hello Robert!

Welcome to my little part of the blogosphere.

I think skepticism is a very good and healthy thing to have, especially in the field of internet marketing. I can’t give you any thoughts or opinions about them from the point of view of an advertiser wanting to purchase their services because I have no product of service requiring them. I can say that from the experiences I have personally had with them as an “influencer”, I have nothing but good things to say about them.

I do agree with you, Robert, in that they could probably do a thing or two to improve their professional image, such as advertise their corporate phone number (it is publicly available if you care to spend 30 seconds searching), and better domain name set up. I do not agree, however, that lack of any originality is any reason to dislike, distrust, or dismiss them.

Thanks for stopping by and commenting, Robert. I really appreciate it.

Kind regards,
Steve.

By: Robert Morris

Robert Morris — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:49:04 +0000

They don’t even have a phone number and they use Domain By Proxy to hide their information…very unprofessional. I don’t care if they did work with Google. They have no way for large corporations to contact them by phone. I wouldn’t spend a dime with this company. I don’t see any proof of who are really are! And they copied another company which I won’t name. Ex-Google people think they can just take whatever they want and call it theirs! This is a stolen idea and it doesn’t impress me.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:50:32 +0000

Just signed up.

I’ll let you know what I think.

Thanks!
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