Go paid listings

At two hundred dollars a URL

[Machiavelli]

Thread is here [webmasterworld.com]

[grnidone]

As a searcher, I never use Go. The colors annoy me, and I don't find the results relevant.

As an SEO, I haven't seen any earth-shattering results from sites that do rank well.

Wonder if Go will be in the dot com morgue soon?

-G

[jayz]

Dot com morgue? Probably not with Disney backing them. But $200/url, you gotta be kidding me. I actually laughed out loud.

[rcjordan]

I'm getting a steady trickle of referrals from them. Many of them, perhaps the majority, in the form of
http://www.go.com/Titles?webtv=true&col=WW&sv=W3&qt=searchterm

I think the traffic is due to an old, old listing in Infoseek under "WebTV/Infoseek Best Bets" and has little to do with the new Go.

I just tried the same search straight from the GO index page. Though my site showed up under the Infoseek returns (lower left-hand corner section) I cannot imagine any serious web research being accomplished via GO. They have injected a section called "Proven Picks" as the first portion of the SERP, and these "picks" are only marginally relevant at best. For instance, I searched on a beach resort region and some of the picks are in the mountains 500 miles away.

I have paid and will pay to play elsewhere, but would I spend $200 on GO? Not a chance!

<edit: changed 'INK returns' to 'Infoseek returns' >

Edited by: rcjordan

[msgraph]

>Many of them, perhaps the majority, in the form of
[go.com...]

Same here. I'm pulling in some good hits off their webcrawled database results than anything else. The majority of mine are coming from WebTV and infoseek.de (Germany).
Almost all of them are off of sub-page doorways.

They are spidering like crazy across all my domains today.

The main problem for people trying to get hits off of them is from their new main search page.

If someone does a search they first encounter that "Focus Your Search" garbage:

Did you mean this? Did you mean that?

No? Then go click on this link here.

Might be good for the surfers out there but bad for us.