Market share of second-tier PPC search engines in UK?

MIVA, Mirago, Yell?

[1Lit]

Just wondering what market share the second tier PPC search engines may have in the UK? I mean the likes of MIVA UK, Mirago UK and Yell.

Would you say they are worth bothering with?

Cheers.

[Maxnpaddy]

Yell is worth it (the branding on a established directory), but use Yell.com and not Yellow Pages or you'll get nothing but sales calls from salesman from other companies using the YP to hassle you.

Also on sign-up to Yell, expect multiple calls from Yell's call centre in India. I'm saying you can't avoid them hassling you, but you'll get less hassle from Yell.com than YP paper directory.

Be aware that Yell is expensive, and charges more than Yahoo.

Hope this advice helps you out.

[edited by: Maxnpaddy at 7:05 am (utc) on Sep. 19, 2007]

[1Lit]

I'll certainly agree about annoying cold-calls from Yell's staff and third parties using them as a telephone spam list.

For this reason we've actually decided to not even take a free listing in the print Yellow Pages.

[Maxnpaddy]

I have a basic listing in Mirago - no results or ROI. It doesn't perform well, infact zero clickthrough according to our AW stats log. A waste of £30....

That's worrying for a branded company that was once thought of as a 'player' in the UK market place. They need to do something.

[lethal0r]

I would say do not bother with them. When I see how little traffic I get from Microsoft PPC, then the ones you mention must get practically no traffic at all.

Would you want to spend hours working on them for maybe 1 click a month? or like the person said above ZERO clicks.