Archive for October, 2007

Press Release: Traffic Advisors™

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

eZanga’s Traffic Advisors™ takes Internet Fraud Head-On
Also listen to Richard Kahn talk about Traffic Advisors: MP3 Version

Middletown, DE (PRWEB) October 30, 2007 — eZanga, Inc., a Search Engine firm based in Middletown, DE, announces the official launch of Traffic Advisors. A beta version of the system came online earlier this year and proved to be a monumental success. Traffic Advisors allows eZanga’s search traffic, currently over 10 Billion searches each month and aggregated from the best search engines (outside of Google, Yahoo, and MSN), to be fraud filtered through an effective proprietary system. In real time, Traffic Advisors blocks fraudulent traffic before it hits a customer’s site and before it charges their account. This one-of-a-kind system was designed by the founders of eZanga because of the growing threat of Internet advertising fraud.

For businesses wanting to connect directly with Internet users at their peak interest, keyword searches have grown into a multi-billion dollar business. And for good reason — they work. But, since advertisers pay search engines on a “per-click” basis, and search engines pay out to various tributaries through a network, fraudulent click sources have become rampant. “It is an illusive theft. However, they are not invisible, and we backtrack straight to them,” says Richard Kahn, CEO of eZanga and chief developer of Traffic Advisors, “eZanga is developing a business model that excludes fraud from the very beginning; and our customers love it.”

Richard Kahn and Angel Pabon, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of eZanga, respectively, experienced the frustration of wasted money due to fraud. Several years ago, they were engaged in their own online commerce campaigns. According to Kahn, “We would recognize that these campaigns were almost profitable and would have been so without the fraud. We confronted the search engines and there polite response was, ’show us proof’.” So they did. With nearly $600,000 per month in ad spends, they didn’t half-step their investigation. Kahn states that “We easily proved our cases with the search engines, thanks to the extremely thorough evidence that we provided.”

After experiencing some of the largest credits ever offered by some of these search engines to any advertisers, Rich and Angel reasoned that it would be a valuable market tool if they could package the anti-fraud process. That would allow other advertisers to benefit from Internet advertising without having to deal with fraud.

“That was the beginning of the past two years of writing the Traffic Advisors system” said Kahn. “We began using the system with a select few customers in early 2007 and their response was shocking to them, but not to us.” Peter Fortin of Junk Your Junk Disposal Inc., who has been buying keyword search traffic from eZanga, was one of the early accounts. He states that eZanga is… “the best thing that’s happened to Junk-Your-Junk.”

While the traffic monitored by Traffic Advisors is culled from searches conducted outside of the big three search engines or Yahoo, Google and MSN, it’s every bit as relevant for fraud protection as searches reported by the big three. Each comes from real people doing real searches. The cost of a click from the eZanga network is only a fraction of the cost from a larger brand name search engine.

“One of the benefits that we offer that the Big Three does not is the human element of a dedicated Account Manager at any budget level,” states Kahn, who oversees the operations on a daily basis. “At any budget level, we are available to our clients. We want their feedback, we welcome their concerns, and we know our traffic so we help them optimize their campaigns.”

eZanga Headquarters Has a Power Surge

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

eZanga’s Headquarters experienced a power surge on Tuesday September 25th that caused us to lose power and office equipment. With all of our search technology, power lines, and redundant systems, they were still no match for an unsuspecting bird that lost its life by taking out half of the power grid in our office park.

We lost many of our surge protectors, our cable TV box and it seemed we even lost our X-Box 360 :( With the X-Box 360 being down and the release of Halo 3 just hours before, our COO, Angel Pabon, was distraught to say the least.

We went out and replaced all of our surge protector’s with APC units and swapped out our cable TV box. Yet, our poor X-Box 360 was still down. Angel did some quick testing and found that just the power supply was dead. So you will all be happy to know that a new power supply is on order and we’ll soon be gaming again in the office.

Oh, before I forget, one of our devices caught on fire so we had to call the fire department. Five trucks showed up from three different fire stations within minutes of our call. Luckily, nothing else flamed up and we were back to work the next day. Just in case you were wondering, eZanga servers are NOT stored in our offices…we have a secured hosting facility that we use to ensure our uptime and speed.