Quuu Promote

I submitted a number of articles to QuuuPromote (25).

Firstly, there is no way to edit an article once submitted. If you realise you made a mistake before it is reviewed, tough.

I found that my articles were generally reviewed on time or just after, so that was good.

I do question whether they really read everything thoroughly, as most of my articles are 2000-3000 words, and I was getting "approval" e-mails roughly 4 minutes apart, which would be an extremely fast reading speed. I would imagine it's more of a skim read.

My real issue with QuuuPromote is there is exactly 0 transparency.

Once you have an article accepted, you are told how many "shares" it has, and how many "clicks". One would think this means the article had that many shares out on social media by their various users, and clicks on those links. But it doesn't. I believe shares means shares to their users, i.e., the number of their users who have seen it and MIGHT put it on their socials (I could be wrong, here).

Clicks, I can say with certainty, are definitely NOT clicks to the post you promoted. I find this grossly poor wording at best. For example, I had 12 posts which had a total share count of 1850. The total click count from those shares added up to 284. But I can see in Google Analytics that I only had 50 visitors to these articles, not 284. That is a huge difference.

I believe (again, could be wrong), that QuuuPromote "clicks" mean number of their users who clicked on your article info... but they may never had opened it.

I just find this to be a really poor decision on QuuuPromote's part, to make people think their content is being shared and clicked more than it is.

Further, there is no way to actually find out who is sharing your content. I could find out via Twitter, because my posts had my @username, but other social networks? No. There is also no way to see who is part of Quuu that might even be promoting your content, which means it could be people with no followers up to people with thousands. There is just no way to know. And you have no idea if those people post relevant content to their followers or just spam everything. Not a great way to run a social media strategy.

Lastly, I find the advertising from QuuuPromote - AS SOON AS YOU SIGN UP - to upgrade so that you get your posts repromoted, for a "one time only discount/this offer will expire when you close this dialogue" type of fee, to be really cynical. As well as then asking if you want to speed up your review for another $20.

This service might suit people who work within very niche subjects where customers come to their site with an intent to buy, and have a high purchasing power, but I really don't think this suits bloggers.