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This Looksmart listing prevents me from submitting and getting Zeal listings for deeplinks. Actually I got some deeplinks by an indirect route of a Zeal editor listing me even though the form prevented me from applying.
The Looksmart listing is silly for me if I can get the same listing via Zeal, and also some number of deeplinks greater than zero. So, I'm wondering about the process and pitfalls of being de-listed by Looksmart and then applying to be listed in Zeal. I've read the help stuff, but it doesn't seem to be geared toward dummies who are paying when they don't have to. (Imagine that.)
Anyone have any advice?
I hope this is clear. Given the choice of being still locked out of Zeal and not paying Looksmart versus being still locked out of Zeal and paying Looksmart for my clicks, I'd pay, but since my website (in profile) sells nothing there should be a process to rectify my dumbness. Thanks for any help.
I closed ALL LS accounts when pay-per-click was introduced. Each of the sites associated with these closed accounts remain in Zeal although they are clearly commercial. Traffic declined by about half but they remain in Zeal and do well enough with Ink.
LS enforces (or enforced) a five page per domian limit unless you pay BIG bucks. Zeal seems to enforce this same limitation.
We also have a number of sites considered non-commercial by Zeal that were paid before this PPC thing. Setting up a mirror and submitting that is one way to get around this, so long as mirror content isn't in LookSmart, though sometimes mirrored content will pass through even if LS editors look at it.
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