goto.uk reach expands

more SE's

[tigger]

Oh well it looks like goto has just been taken onboard by some new major :) uk players (is that a contradiction)

" You can now reach 25% of UK Internet users.In just three months, GoTo UK has established search traffic partnerships with www.freeserve.com, www.icircle.com,www.clearlybusiness.com, www.ask.co.uk, www.libertysurf.co.uk,www.x-stream.co.uk and www.freeola.com. This means every day your Web site is appearing in search result listings seen by up to one quarter of Internet users in the UK. "

I don't know about the importance of the other new SE's but someone most be using them, anyone know of anyone that use's icircle.com ?

I would actually say that 25% is rather conservative, as I've always received a good amount of traffic from freeserve & ask, although I don't know why people use Ask I personally hate the dam thing !!

Now if they were to get lycos/excite.co.uk I think we would all need to get our clients to get there gold credit cards out to cover the bids

Whats the hightest bid anyones come across so far ?, I've a client in the recruitment industry and I've just finished working on a report for his new site and marketing, the search term "job" is currently running at 42p per click OOOch !!! now that's got to start getting expensive

[makemetop]

You think that is bad! Look at life insurance - currently £1.82 and was up to £3.80 with stupid bidding with the top 3 when you could get on the first page for 20p.

[NFFC]

Hi tigger,
icircle.com & clearlybusiness.com are offshoots of Freeserve, one being a woman's portal the other a small business portal. Unfortunately the icircle search results just appear in a Freeserve pop up window, which is a shame as there seems no way to track referrals independently of the Freeserve portal. I know very little about clearlybusiness.com, although I have a meeting with them next week so will try and find out some facts & figures. Their search option seems to be a little buried.

The others, with the exception of ask.co.uk, are very much also rans, I wouldn't expect to see any significant traffic. Evan at ask.co.uk the GoTo results are tucked away at the bottom, you'll get very few clicks compared with the lycos.co.uk "inspired" DH listings.

>I would actually say that 25% is rather conservative

I say it is an overestimate, particularly if you look at potential traffic rather than mere "reach".

>the search term "job" is currently running at 42p per click OOOch !!!

hehehe, try this search [ifind.freeserve.com], not the highest I've seen but do you think number two needs a wake up call!

[tigger]

mmm, classic case of panic bidding and not checking your rankings, although goto do offer the tools to monitor this obviously our freinds at M&S financial are too busy trying to make money ;) rather than save it.

I personaly think 5p per click is to expensive.

Edited by: tigger

[tigger]

Oops forgot to say, nice to see I'm not the only person that starts work first thing

" good morning gentlemen "

[tigger]

well I was hopping that the uk would reduce it's click charge in line with the US but not the other way around, lets hope we've not got a similar increase over here, mind you at 50p per min bid I think even us hard done by brits would tell goto where to shove that.

[engine]

Fifty pence -did you say fifty - that is criminal.