I have the results in for day 1 of my 10-Day Experiment. If you are not familiar with this experiment, for $77.00, I purchased 100,000 unique site visitors from the USA from a company called ‘www.advertyz.com’ over a 10-day period. You can read more by clicking here.

I set up this experiment by limiting the traffic to only 10,000 hits per day. Initial results do not look promising. According to Google Analytics I received only 67 hits, a far cry from the 1000* hits that I was guaranteed.

*corrected from 1000 hits to 10,000 hits per day on October 24th.

experiment day 1 results

So in an effort to compare notes, I logged into my account at www.advertyz.com to review my stats. It was at this point that I was met with my first obstacle. The account section of their site is not compatible with Firefox. Bush league amateurs, was my first thought.

For your information I absolutely detest Internet Explorer, but reluctantly I had to use it to view my stats.

Well, well, well…I was not surprised that it said 1000 visitors delivered. I can not show you the screen shot for day 1 since I forgot to do it yesterday.

Remember that I am giving Google Analytics 24 hours to reflect my site stats, because Google suggests that reporting may take that long to be accurate. Anyway here is a screen shot for today that shows a little over 2000 visitors delivered.

Day 1 Results

You can interpolate the 1000 hits from them by using your deductive reasoning skills.

So now I am left with three alternatives, and to be fair I will not pass judgment at this point. That will have to wait until this experiment is over. Either www.advertyz.com is wrong, Google Analytics is wrong, or I am interpreting the results incorrectly. Time will tell.

As a side note to this experiment, I did apply to the www.advertyz.com affiliate program because they offer 15% commission on referral sales. When I signed up I was informed that a confirmation email would be sent. I was supposed to click a link and then be an affiliate.

When the email arrived it was completely blank. I went back to the site and tried to get it sent again. No way that can happen. I tried to log in to my affiliate account and the password I had entered was incorrect. Next I had the system send me a new password and tried to log in, but I could not. There was a message saying that I had not yet been approved.

To get approved I am supposed to click the mysterious confirmation link in the email that I was sent. Since the confirmation email is blank I am in a catch 22. So next step was to register with their help desk and send in a support ticket. That was around 24 hours ago and as of yet, no reply.

They did send me an email copy of the ticket that I had I submitted and there was a link to the following message at their help desk:

No timely response to support and sales tickets

For the past several weeks we have been experiencing sporatic issues with our support system. We do apologize to anyone who has submitted a ticket with no response. Rest assured that we care about each and every customer and we are doing everything we can to rectify the situation ASAP. In the meantime, if you do not get a response within 24 hours, please write us directly at admin@advertyz.com and your question will be promptly answered.

They misspelled sporadic was my first thought.

I will send that email within the next few minutes and report any feedback tomorrow, but I think I am starting to see a pattern here. Maybe they will pull a rabbit out of their hat because thus far I am not impressed.

Technorati Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

sign up for banana peels :