LookSmart Premium Listing.

whats the deal?

[theposter]

I'm thinking of spending $2500 on one of my sites that has close to 50,000 pages of great content.
Now this premium listing that L$ offers, is it for just one domain or can i have many SITES under just one payment of $2500?

Also, how good is it?.

[mosley700]

IMO, LookSmart is too interested in sending traffic to SmartPages. I pay quite a bit to LookSmart, and have number one listings on L$ for several keywords, but they still can't deliver the traffic. I always have a large click debit at the end of the month. You'll notice that the L$ search results on L$ are not the same as the search results provided by L$ to MSN.

[martinibuster]

LookSmart is good if you are unable or unwilling to optimize your site because it would compromise the integrity of the web site's looks or you really need traffic immediately.

My best advice is to encourage web site owners to take a long range view and optimize the site so that the content is visible, understandable and ultimately easily indexed by the search engine spiders. In the long run, this is the best solution.

If you have time, find a reputable seo expert, one who won't use dodgy short terms strategies, and spend the $2500 on their services.

There's a guy around here who in a thread earlier today was mildly upset because he charged 2k for services and now the company is raking in 10k per month in sales. That's the best 2k that company ever spent. ;)

[skibum]

When we looked into it before, the 2500.00 monthly minimum program, L$ proposed something that was like $150k/year. If you have a content site (non-commercial, no overtly selling stuff) you can spam er I mean submit tons of pages to Zeal for free and save yourself the cash. They consider the homepage of media sites "commercial" but will list most any other page w/o a problem.

There's a guy around here who in a thread earlier today was mildly upset because he charged 2k for services and now the company is raking in 10k per month in sales. That's the best 2k that company ever spent.

Ya gotta understand the client business and price based on perceived value of the client, not on how much time it takes. Just helped a friend with SEO, they probably do an additional 20k in monthly revenue from the SEO and I got the booby prize of $500.00 for positioning them:)

[mosley700]

Get into L$ (zeal) for free. Sounds nice, still the paid listings will be top. No?