GoTo's dance card?

[rcjordan]

I need a separate computer just the keep track of which SE partner is doing what to whom. The matrix is getting very complex (remember that three dimensional chess game in Star Trek?).

Currently, GoTo has announced PPC deals with......

AOL and....

[grnidone]

1) HotBot is already showing GoTo results. The top three are in a separate "sponsored" section at the top of the page. And, in a rather innovative move, the fourth GoTo listing is sandwiched in between position 9 and 10 in the regular returns.

Lycos is doing similiar: It has the top three goto results as "featured listings" and then has four and five goto results as "featured listings" in between "website search results".

I guess it makes sense that Lycos is doing the same as Hotbot since they have the same people running it.

On AltaVista, the top 3 goto results are at the bottom of the first search results page as "sponsored listings". It seems Alta doesn't want to give up their top spots so quickly. They must be getting paid a flat fee and not as much per click...otherwise, they would put those goto results at the top.

-G

[tigger]

grnidone

I keep hearing people going on about the listings being shown on AV but so far I've never seen any of my bids there. I've just checked with GoTo.com and it's at number one but nothing on AV.

I don't know if AV is filtering the results being shown to the UK ?, but that wouldn't realy make any sense.

[tedster]

tigger,

First, AV has been on and off about showing the GoTo results (at the bottom of the page in green text.) For a while they definitely were filtering by browser, showing the results only to MSIE and not Netscape (go figure!). I'd say a geographic filter is not out of the question at all.

At the moment AV seems stabilized, and is consistently showing GoTo results to both browsers, at least in the US.
I'm not seeing any increase in clicks from AV since the GoTo listings started -- I think that the bottom of the page position coupled with the text color and the "sponsored" heading are killing the clickthroughs.

[tigger]

tedster

Thanks at long last I can now see my listings there, but just how much responce it will generate is anyones guess so far todate I've had nothing, but fortunatley I do receive a good amount of traffic from the UK goto and I've only looked at the .com being a top up.

just a shame it's 10 times more expensive.

[oLeon]

At Metacrawler.com are Goto-results listed if they are within the first 6 places at Goto.

[tigger]

oleon

looks to me like the top 5, check out the GoTo.com Best Picks at the bottom maximum I got to was 5 for jobs/insurance

[bigjohnt]

mamma is no longer displaying goto results. they did not renew their contract. <according to a conversation with a rep at GoTo.>

[Mike_Mackin]

bigjohnt

If you are represented on other major PPCs, is this a good or a bad thing?

[luckynh]

Did I miss this in the list?

GO.com Search is now provided by GoTo
[go.com...]

[SebadohSucker]

Netflip.com, one of the most popular 'pay to click' search engines, is displaying GoTo.com search results below the Netflip advertisers results.

Surfers aren't payed to click on these links but I could see how most of this traffic will most likely be a big steaming pile of dung.

My Opinion: Not a real intelligent partnership by GoTo.

[bigjohnt]

Sorry for the delay Mike..
In Mamma, GoTo dropping is good, if you are on other PPCSE's. Bids are lower, and they will rise, with no GoTo barrier. I imagine the display algo has a LOT to do with how much whom is paying whom...< but i haven't dissected mamma lately. Too close to mothers day.> Whoa!, shades of Hannibal Lecter!!