Quuu Promote Reviews

If I could give zero tacos I would.
This is a scam company. They refuse evey article you submit. I had newspaper jouranlists write my articles and they refused them all. So I still have the MAX stack credits I started with,. I also took their updsell at $15 a month and there is NO WAY to cancel it...oh and they dont answer customer supprt emails.
Worst ever

Lots of fake clicks and shares and they cannot provide a response about this. that's why 2 starts. Testing one more time before deciding keep or refund.

This platform is a fantastic idea, but my experience early on not so much.

Everyone seems to have the same problems with Quuu:

-The share counts are misleading, as in the reports generated by Quuu are measuring numbers within their own platform. How does that make sense..?
-Extended review time for content submission (Resulting in a fairly ineffective promotion tool)
-I've been left hanging by Quuu support a couple of times, and they literally just stopped responding to user questions/reviews on AppSumo. From my experience, any company with questionable support usually correlates with a questionable product as well.

Gave them 3 stars because this actually is a really cool concept, and could be extremely valuable. So even though it's been pretty lousy so far, I'm keeping my codes in hopes that they can figure it out.

If you need vanity metrics to impress a client, do this. If you ACTUALLY are wanting your content to pick up steam on social, this isn't it.

tl;dr preview -- Quuu isn't very good right now, but you should still stack this.

If you're thinking whether to invest in Quuu Promote during last call, read on. First, I've been using Quuu Promote for a few months. Here's the top level highlights.

✅Friendly and responsive support
✅Easy to use interface
✅Unique concept -- nothing else like it on the market
✅ Great value, in theory

⛔️Lack of verifiable metrics
⛔️No true reporting and analysis
⛔️No ability to export data
⛔️LOOONNNNG wait times to get approved or disapproved

Essentially, you submit articles that meet their criteria. 4-8ish days later, you'll get an email that says it's approved, denied or needs editing. If it's approved, your article essentially gets aggregated into a system where social users can pick up and share your content. In theory, this is a great, win-win service with a sustainable revenue model -- users on both sides are paying, and probably happy with the service. Annndd.... you'll see the numbers. Whoa.... hundreds of shares. Dozens of clicks.

❓Must be working, right ❓

Not necessarily. This is where Quuu kinda falls flat on its face. I've promoted about 20 articles on Quuu so far, and I've manually checked analytics on all of them. That's because, Quuu's current way of tracking leads a lot to be desired. Most of this is out of Quuu's control, but I think there's more than could be done.

Here's a great recent example -- I promoted a piece of content that says it has 100+ shares and 30+ clicks. I also use a third-party link tracker so I can double-verify these stats through Poplink AND through Google Analytics.

What did I find over the last few months?

Well.... there appears to be a huge discrepancy between what Quuu reports and what actually happens. My Poplink and Google Analytics stats are much lower than what Quuu reports. (Also, I've done this with older articles that haven't received any traffic in months as ANOTHER layer of A/B testing)

I understand that there's a certain level of analytics that Quuu can't give because of social media privacy settings. Essentially, you'll be able to manually search Twitter and find some of those shares, but you likely won't find anything on Facebook or LinkedIn, except in the rare case that someone has their privacy set to public, or if someone in your extended network shares it.

Now.... more bad news -- the content that does get shared seems to be junky bot traffic. Granted, I've only verified this is on Twitter, as that's the only "traffic" you can verify. But, out of the few thousands (few hundred on Twitter) of shares my content has gathered, it's only gotten engagement past that TWICE. That means, I've manually checked those hundreds of Twitter shares, and there's literally been only two pieces of content that have gotten a retweet or like from those hundred-plus.

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.