Last time I wrote about trying low end PPC engines I was begging Ask to take my money from the credit card.
And they took…

Once my credit card was approved into their system, I uploaded in a bulk all my MSN campaign for one of the merchants that I am affiliate with.
The first big mistake was letting contextual adds ON. The contextual ads are those that appear on various sites from ASL network partners. Soon I was getting traffic from these sites (with these searches for keywords that I never advertised):

http://www.theuniquesearch.com (”female peeing”, “Bisexual Females”)
http://www.smartseekerz.com (”Female Sexual Dysfunction”, “Female Strippers”)
and many more like these.

The advertised product is “Flora Femal” “a unique blend of pollen extracts from seven organically cultivated flowers grown in the southern region of Sweden”.
Why would anyone seeking “Pictures Of Female Models” click on an ad that says: “Flora Femal - $16.24. Save 40% off” ?

So I tried to switch the contextual advertising OFF but I didn’t find the switch, even after consulting the online help.
Finally I discovered it but it’s very very hidden from view and you really have no choice that put up with this crap. So the first red flag for Ask.

Then the second red flag.
I put a limit of 50$ per campaign per day yesterday. Today my credit card was charged 100$ in addition to the 50$ initial deposit. So now I have 140$ in credits but I only spent 10$ on the crappy traffic that I’ve got.
This was my second mistake: at all time you must have credits exceeding 3 x the sum of the limits of all the campaigns. Now I am glad that I only had one campaign. I immediately changed my budget to 5$/day. Probably today my ads aren’t even showing. That’s the result of a greedy strategy from Ask.

So I would wait for a week to see if I get good traffic, anyway I have to spend now the 140$ in credits that I have with them. This could take months with the low traffic that they get.