Pay per click search engines

[sim]

anyoen use any or could recommend a few?

[cray]

Overture is pretty good

[gorillaboy]

Findwhat and Looksmart are the best...hands-down!

[awall19]

Originally Posted by gorillaboy

Findwhat and Looksmart are the best...hands-down!

have you tried LookSmart recently? I have and they were rubbish. tons of traffic that did not convert.

Originally Posted by ninjitsumo

There are quite a few with good reputations. This one works quite well for me:

perhaps if it was not an affiliate link maybe people would be more inclined to belive you?

IMHO AdWords and Overture are the best place to start w PPC at.

[gorillaboy]

have you tried LookSmart recently? I have and they were rubbish. tons of traffic that did not convert.

I was joking around! I haven't used either one in years!!

[awall19]

Originally Posted by gorillaboy

I was joking around! I haven't used either one in years!!

to an average person reading the thread who knew nothing about PPCs it did not appear as a joke though. hopefully nobody signed up w LookSmart b4 my reply.

[sundancerz]

Looksmart was good till msn went live with their new directory, I wouldn't use them any more.
Overture and Google ad words are the only two that have any impact. IMO

[ninjitsumo]

Originally Posted by sim

anyoen use any or could recommend a few?

Hi sim,
There are quite a few with good reputations. This one works quite well for me:

CHECK IT OUT!

[sundancerz]

I was joking around! I haven't used either one in years!!

You weren't joking around...it was a guess and not a good one...hands-down

[sem4u]

Overture and AdWords are easily the best

[gorillaboy]

I figured someone would shoot me down a lot sooner!

[imaginemn]

Here is a PPC (Pay Per Click) Relationship Chart I created that I use as a guideline for my clients so they can determine which PPC SE they should be using.

PPC (Pay Per Click) Relationship Chart

Google and Overture are the best and have a broader audience but do require a bigger budget to get good results.

imaginemn

[SFC]

Adwords is the best. A properly executed adword campaign is priceless. Google pays for relativity... so make your search realtive! You can actually get top ranks by paying less.

Contact me if you need help... I hae worked on MANY adword campaigns..

[Shawn]

1) Overture
2) Adwords
3) Findwhat

[jimmyrix]

My top three are the exact same as Shawn Steele...I have also had some success with Espotting in the UK.

I have tried many of the others, including Looksmart, Kanoodle, Clicksor, Fastclick, etc... and they delivered negative ROI and poor quality traffic-

Overture gives me the best ROI, while Adwords' ROI is not quite as good but delivers many more clicks and therefore more revenue.

[modano]

just the name clicksor makes me wonder...

[frances]

My experience of PPC was pretty bad...

a lot of clicking and paying but little sales.

You think that it's going to be cheap as you can taylor the payments to your budget (well you can in Adwords) but before you know it you are competing against big companies with bigger budgets, and so your little 9p click won't really get you anywhere :-(

Next thing you know you're getting a nice chunky bill through each month!

I'd reccommend working on your site SEO - and building links with other sites rather than paying... keep it as a last resort.

Since learning about SEO and using the techniques on my site i am actually getting more hits, am higher on search engines, and pay nothing.

[yankeeman]

Advertise your products and services under the most popular keywords that relate to your company.

[librarain]

i heard the same about overture - that they're good, will provide results and can be inexpensive. i don't have any personal experience with them.