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Trusted Feed

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skibum

12:06 am on Oct 17, 2001 (gmt 0)

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Does anyone have experience with the Trusted Feed Program for sites with more than 500 URLs?

500 URLs for 6 months w/o the TF program would be $6735.00. Do they just go less than $12.00/URL if you go with more than 500 URLS?

Do they guarantee anything, any amount of traffic? For the right site a couple grand a month might be a worthwhile investment. Although...if even top rankings aren't generating much traffic it might be a total waste. My experience has been that Google generates up to 15X the traffic of AV for equivalent placements.

agerhart

9:57 pm on Oct 17, 2001 (gmt 0)

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Although...if even top rankings aren't generating much traffic it might be a total waste.

Exactly!

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In my opinion, AV is not something to spend too much time or money on. Work on other rankings first and then if you have conquered most of the other SE's, go back and work on AV.

The traffic is very sporadic from AV. One or two sites that I have get great referrals and the other 95% of the sites get close to nothing.

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skibum

7:26 pm on Oct 20, 2001 (gmt 0)

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It is weighted much more towards a pay per click model than pay for inclusion when it come to Trusted Feed.

oLeon

9:03 am on Dec 19, 2001 (gmt 0)

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I would like to say: yes, itīs a waste of time and money.

We are trying to reach traffic with Trusted-Feed, and we only got a bit out of. Just about 2% of the listed pages are listed in the SERPS - due to the strange listings of AV.

We cannot recommend that. We thought it could be a good way being surely included in the index, but what helps when you nevertheless are buried in the SERPS? We thought we could figure out how to reach the first positions but we have to admit that this thinking was naive. When you got SERPS for a two or three word phrase with only one of these words are in it - what could you figure out except the uselessness of it?