Kijiji Canada is rolling out a new system for merchant accounts.You create ads, and put a bidding price on them, much like adwords, but it's based only on the words in your title. (Possibly the first hundred words in thd ad too)  No separate keywords.The ads winning the auction will show up in the 4th, 11th and 17th positions on the page.  You can a sample page here:  http://www.kijiji.ca/b-home-outdoor/edmonton/c19l1700203I signed up, and created 3 ads twice, once as a private individual, and once as a merchant.Merchant ads are distinguished by a pale lavender background, and a logo on the right hand side.After one day the private ads received 12 clicks.  The merchant ads received 224 clicks.  I think that either Kijiji's software is broken, OR they are inflating the numbers.I emailed my account rep asking for some third party verification.  No Joy.  The analytics they provide are all that is available.I have paused all ads in my account until this is resolved -- either an explanation as to why the merchant ads get such disproportionate attention -- or a method of 3rd party audits.I have suggested that a reasonable audit method would be load one or more images off of my web server from a page labeled no cache  If the image is fetched with a parameter, or alternately is fetched with a name foo+sequence#.jpg, and the server rewrite it to foo.jpg  this would keep it from being cached.What is the best way to see that you are actually getting the clicks you are paying for?Edit:  My smell-a-rat is going off full tilt:Kijiji.ca according to HypeStat (http://kijiji.ca.hypestat.com/) gets about 10 million hits per day.  Edmonton metro area is 1.1 million.  But lots of nearby towns.  Let's call it 1.5 millionCanada is 35 million.  So edmonton is 4% of Canada.  So 4% of the traffic should be for Edmonton's kijiji.  Ok.  I'm ignoring people who search Alberta.kijiji.ca.  So we have 400,000 edmonton hits per day.  If all page hits are ad pages (Ignoring people using the help pages, etc) and each page shows 20 ads, then there are 8 million classified ad impressions per day.   It might be more than this.  I've heard that for any given city either Craigslist or Kijiji dominates. So it might be double this.There are 333,000 ads on edmonton.kijiji.ca176,000 on buy and sell3,800 on home-outdoor193 on plants, fert. and soil.Yet the claim on the screenshot above that my ads had 60,000 impressions.  MY ads had 0.75% of all the impressions you made.But the category of ads has 193/330,000 = 0.058%  There is a factor of 12 difference.  Do you expect me to believe that there are 12 times as many people browsing this category as the average for the entire site?  This is NOT the time of year that most people think about garden stuff.  I would expect the ratio to be the other way.All three of my ads were on page 1.  So this means that page 1 of plants,fert,dirt  was loaded 20,000 times in just over a 24 hour period.  (This assumes browse, not search)That this ONE page accounts for 5% of the hits on edmonton.kijiji.ca?  Even if there were twice as many page hits on Edmonton as the above figures indicate, this makes no sense at all.
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