Jininsearch anybody

[colintho]

Aug 2002 was approached by jinisearch? asking if I wanted to buy some keywords (as I had used them in realnames previously) Was a little sceptical, paid a couple of hundred £'s. After 6 months only 6 visitors from these otherwise "well used" keywords -3 or 4 of these were me testing the link......

They called me today "did I want some banner ads" - No Thanks

[jmccormac]

Just been looking at Jsearch's Irish (www.jsearch.ie) website. Most of the quick links are dead and it seems that the search data is basically the same as the UK version. There is supposed to be an advert running on Irish television for the service though I have not seen it on RTE/TV3/UTV. The site has UK contact phone numbers to ring if people want to advertise (not exactly localised). The banner links are flat links (not served via any advertising network).

I would have serious reservations about trying to exploit the Irish market since it is so damned small. From the results on whoisireland.com (my site which tracks .ie and Irish owned domains/websites) that there are only 14K active Irish .ie websites [1] and about 20K active Irish .com/.net/.org sites. Most of the advertising on websites in among the commercial sites seems to be split among a few online advertising services and they seem to have a lower limit of 200K page impressions per month. Apart from that Jsearch seems to be non-existent in the Irish market. I've e-mailed them to ask if they are going to do anything in this market but I don't expect any developments. People just seem to use Google or an MSN search by default here.

Regards...jmcc
[1] Cutting out the holding page websites could knock as many as 4000 off this figure.

[engine]

There have been several threads in this forum about relatively-unknown search services.

If you havent heard of them, chances are that "surfers" would not either.

Always ask them for hard evidence to back up their claims.

BTW - Let's not let this thread drift into a slaggingfest - let's stick to facts. Thanks guys.