Citygrid
Citygrid media infalted billed traffic stats by 20x
- 09-26-2012
- 84
Citygrid will charge you $3600/year for worthless traffic to hit your ad/site.
If you actually get any real customers, that is extra cost!
Citygrid aims to be the dashboard for businesses to enhance their citysearch.com profile and to run pay per click ads on citysearch and affiliated websites. Its part of a growing search engine trend called local search search engine users and search engine results that are geographically close.
Against my instincts, I agreed to let citygrid salesperson Keith Beverly run a one month trial of the service. Keith promised that this service was a no brainer since you only pay when the ad actually performs. I reasoned that I am a one man shop and I get so little traffic it couldnt cost more than a few dollars for 30 days.
Heres the sordid details
Here are my website stats for my website after 3 weeks of the citygrid campaign:
And here are stats citygrid uses to fraudulently bill you:
Notice city grid reports 40 clicks to website and my google stats show 2 hits from city search.
Company: Citygrid
Country: USA
Address: 13900 Conlan Circle Building, Suite 125
Site: citygrid.com