Partners of Small Search Engines

Why is this so secret?

[bbr59a]

Hello, I am somewhat new to search engine pay-per-click advertising. I have been using Overture and Google at first, but wanted to try my luck at the smaller ones.

I have decided to try goClick and Ah-Ha. My only problem is that I cannot find any information on the home sites about which search engines my ads will appear on.

My questions are: Does anyone know this information and want to share it with me? Also, why do these ppc sites not want to disclose information about what sites they advertising on. I think this is important information and don't know why it's so secret. I've even heard that Google does not provide a complete list, and do not understand that.

Hope someone can help - Cheers

[jonathanleger]

I can't say why Google doesn't give out that information, but I have a good idea why Search123.com does not. I used them for a while, and all of the clicks I got came from really crummy sites that were obviously put up souly for the purpose of displaying Search123 results and nothing else. They were not high quality sites, and they generated -zero- sales.

[ByronM]

Its safe to assume that giving away your partners without notice is a violation of privacy as well as it would be in essence handing you a key to try and barter services directly independant of search123

[edit_g]

If a PPC engine isn't shouting about its distribution network; odds are good that it doesn't have much of one....

[bbr59a]

Thanks for the suggestions. I have to say, some of these small serach engines are a complete joke. I opened an account with Enhance and noticed I was receiving lots of clicks from a certain domian. I went to the site and it appears to be an adult site with a warning about adult material. Then if you click either enter or exit, it randomly takes you to one of the paid listings on Enhance! How ridiculous. Needless to say I'm done with the pay per click of 'other' search engines. Back to Overture and Google for me.

[bbr59a]

Actually, I think I know why the don't post their sites. The reason is that they have so many 'adult' wen sites, people would be turned off if they knew their true network.

My tracking has shown all sorts of clicks from questionable sites we are not likely to get customers from.

Abort! Abort!

[dataguy]

Very interesting.... I run a search engine site and recently I decided to test a few feeds from other networks such as Search123, Enhance, LookQuick, etc. You know, the interfaces they use all seemed awkward, not showing the kind of stats I'd like to see as a search engine operator. My biggest problem was that they just didn't have enough advertisers to make the result relavent. Eventually I went back to SearchFeed, whom I've used for years for occasional backfill.

Just curious, does anyone see much of the same kind of tricks being pulled with SearchFeed results?