User beware

  • ricesrey

    (@ricesrey)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    Even though they use cute, busty girls on their banner to help ease fears, I’m still not certain this plugin does what it claims. My concerns are based on the following:

    1) It’s not really free. They give you a free 24-hour evaluation period, then you have to subscribe to one of their monthly, paid plans.

    2) They really push hard for you to allow them to install code in your website’s header to “tell others about their great plugin.” They even offer you a free gift if you permit it.

    3) They don’t really explain how they’re able to drive quality customer views to your website. They’ve apparently discovered a method of advertising on the Internet that even Google hasn’t figured out yet. They claim to use ‘Neuro-Positive Interaction between your brand and visitors.’ Is this even a thing?

    4) I tried it for the 24-hour evaluation period. I was excited to see that my number of views shot up about 300% from around the world during that period. Unfortunately, my Bounce Rate went from the low 20% range to the high 80% range during that same time.

    5) I’m always suspicious of companies that can’t afford to hire decent translators. The English from this company is poor–almost incomprehensible.

    At least in my case, I didn’t receive ‘quality’ views. The new visitors that hit my website’s home page (be they human or robot) looked around for half a second and then bounced right out. That’s not how 90% of my real visitors use my website. That certainly isn’t going to help increase my sales. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’d make good backups before you install this.

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Hi ricesrey, how was the free plugin?

    Thread Starter ricesrey

    (@ricesrey)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    All of my comments above were based on the ‘Free’ plugin since I never paid for their subscription services. During this Free period, They wanted me to install code into my website’s header, which made me suspicious. Also, the new visitors this plugin drove to my site stayed for half a second and then left (kindof like a robot). I can’t comment on their paid services.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Oops sorry! Do you mind if you remove comments regarding the commercial plugin? Thanks.

    Thread Starter ricesrey

    (@ricesrey)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    That was my fault. I can see where it looked as if I was talking about the commercial plugin. I fixed it.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Much appreciated!

    Plugin Author Mass Advertising

    (@mass-advertising)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Dear ricesrey, that’s right! The plugin have two trials packages which you can upgrade when do you want (or not, like your case), we have talked with WordPress Staff to be inside of their rules at the first moment of the project deploy.

    Ricesrey, you can check our code in WP Repository, there is no secret, just adds an backlink if you like the plugin and also, if your theme support it, otherwise plugin don’t do nothing unexpected. Is not science here, all code is clear, commented and without any type of obfuscation. If you analize base-plugins of WP 3.X version with ESET 5 (per example…) you can show few files obfuscated and detected like potentially malware, if you do the same analysis with MA you don’t show any type of alert. Please, make the test.

    About traffic quality, I can’t talk too much about because I don’t know your campaign results without see your campaign summary, so, my unique resource is guess. Mass Advertising was thinking to be an Massive Advertising media, so, you need to improve maximally than is possible to absorb in your landing page (homepage) this traffic with “chum”, per example: curiosity in the potential customer. It’s absolutely wrong think this service like an Geo-Target advertising / branding method, for that you can choice AdWords or FB Ads, so, the idea behind the project is different. Mass Advertising is the antonym of them.

    Maybe is too early to take conclusions in 24 hours of campaign, is not one provider on the Earth which can provide “extraordinary” results in less than 24 hours, I would like suggest to you try 7-day trial, which is available too, but looks little bit late.

    By the side of translation I can’t say nothing, you are absolutely right, it’s horrible. We are on it!

    I’m thankful for your feedback, seriously, thank you!

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