Overture's version of adsense

Overture Publishers

[Macbeth]

I've noticed some affiliate marketing sites have links to internet sellers say Widget computers for example.

However, when I hover over the link, the address is www6.overture. com with some blurb on the end which i can only assume is some sort of publisher id?

Does anybody have a clue as to how one gets to become an overture publisher?

[growingdigital]

To join Overture's program you have to have a site that generates 30 million page views a month.

[surfgatinho]

30 million page views a month

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How many UVs a day is that. I thought I was doing OK with around 3,000 and am racking up 250,000 page views per month.

What amazes me is the sites that have the Overture content (whatever it's called) on them - some of them seem to have very little else. They do OK in Google though - catch 22 once you get the Overture content you do well but to get it in the first place you need to be doing well!

[growingdigital]

An example of this is redzip.com. It is basically an overture search engine, branded as something different. What a joke! Plus Alexa shows they are not even in the top 100,000 sites. How did they get in? Any sites with that many page views would surely be in the top 100,000!

[rfung]

No pagerank either.

As far as 30mil hits - I guess that's what those guys at the com.org do. I wonder how many hits they have.

[markus007]

yahoo & Overture are in bed with the big spyware companies etc. What are you seeing is probably a resold feed.. Ie one of the spyware vendors gets a feed then resells it to others and Overture turns a blind eye.

[Akers]

I noticed many publishers using adwords to market their "re-branded" overture search results, e.g. "Hotels Directory". I guess they pay $0.05 on adwords and hope visitors click on the top search results. Must return a good ROI, but isn't this against the Overture TOS, for example this would not be allowed using Adsense and driving traffic through Overture $0.01 ads, correct?

[ronin]

It's not Overture, but FWIW I'm seeing much better results from AdSonar now compared to what I was seeing six months ago. Almost comparable to AdSense in fact... the only downside is that there are currently fewer advertisers.