Marchex AdHere

They are one of these odd, fake traffic providers. I'm not sure what these companies do, but when they start sending hundreds of hits real quickly - be afraid, very afraid. That\'s exactly what Marchex does. I could not verify or see these in my stats. I also went quickly and installed VisiStat which is a live stat tracker, along with my google analytics, which was allready installed. Neither saw more than 10 hits. Furthermore, my sponser converts true targeted hits like crazy because they don\'t have to buy anything. (auto insurance zip code search) I knew something was up when after 200+ hits, I got no leads.. It's amazing to me that these kind of companies operate at all and get away with this. All we're asking for is real people doing real searches. The only real hit I saw was when either I, or the Marchex Adhere support chat person went to my site to make sure everything was correct! LOL, epic fail. To their credit they refunded me my remaining balance. Of course their not losing anything. My suggestion is to stop looking for the moon and stay grounded when it comes to PPC. There are only about 10-15 honest ppc's that actually work and are honest. The others almost have to use b.s. and/or fraud to generate clicks because they don't have enough traffic.

We gave Adhere a try on a small test budget after our agency didnt think Marchex would perform. Having run our ads on two of the other engines we thought it couldnt hurt to give another vendor a try. Sure enough about a month into our campaign which was promoting white papers and event registration, our conversions where nearly 40% hirer than that of the top engine. I can only speak for my own exp but will definitely be allocating more funds to Marchex away from the saturated market of other engines.