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This seems damn expensive compared to the minimum bid of 1 cent on the .com version - at today's rates it is 7 times the price.
Seems a little unfair on us UK guys if you ask me.
With the right title & description, there should be no reason to bid more than 5 at this time - imho
>US .coms out bidding us little guys!
Well, you can see it happening - can't you?
On a 2 word phrase at the bottom of your list of KWs, you are battling it out with a .com while I sit at #8.
I have over 30 days left in my account.
#1 will get more hits [ I think - UK stats may be different from US] but I am going to rely on my title and description to get traffic.
If you click on my bid at £0.07, I'll get on an airplane and KILL you. :)
Well, it is good - so I was tempted - then...
>If you click on my bid at £0.07, I'll get on an airplane and KILL you.
I typed in the URL instead!;)
I think makemetop sums it up quite nicely with that sentence.
It may be an idea to go back thru your referral logs and look at the terms that people have searched on in other engines to give you some ideas of what terms to use - I found some unusual combinations that I hadn't thought of this way. These could turn out to be so obscure that they never get a hit - but then again, no click thru - no cost to you.
As Mike says - try to get a good title and description that fits the search term. You don't want to attract people to click onto your site unless it is definitely of interest to them.
So the 5p minimum click turns out to be 5.875p once the 17.5% tax is added.
I noticed that as well, I do feel it's a little unfair to promote the fee without the dreaded VAT on, as I'm sure most SEO/individuals are not VAT registerd and the one's that are aren't going to worry about paying a bit of VAT if their turnover is 50k plus!
I'm not a legal expert but I think that you must disclose taxes and any other fees. [In the USA]
anyone?
without going through the whole process again to double check it, I'm pretty sure that it comes up on the page you print off as a receipt.
Don't hold me to it though, but they do not make it clear until you've gone through the whole process of keyword bids/address for billing /credit card details and only after you agree the fee comes up with the VAT on :(
Along with the high minimum bid it adds to the feeling of being "ripped off". Still lets hope it brings in the same targetted traffic that it's considerably cheaper counterpart in the USA does.
Here [uk.goto.com], just above the "Sign up now" submit button, Goto's version of hidden text. <g>
Can you claim it back? Just what you want to be reading after a hard weeks work [hmce.gov.uk]
I initially enquired by email and asked for my USA search terms to be transferred over to the new UK Service. This was followed up by a telephone call from one of their representatives who arranged the set up.
Good service - but he didn't mention the VAT. I subsequently received an email asking me to confirm the transaction and again, no mention of VAT.
It's probably included somewhere in their T&C's though.
YA your right
In that case - no point in complaining ;)
In that case - no point in complaining ;)
For people outside the UK, most publicly advertised prices in Europe include VAT. For you people outside the EU, you will win - over us, any quoted price from an EU operation MUST be considered to be VAT inclusive - so £50 = £42.55 if you are an EU resident with a business in the UK.
Hey-ho! The Brits are the losers - yet again..... (unless you have a VAT number)....
Welcome to the world of IDIOT BIDDING
Check out the site that (Cost to advertiser: £0.90)
Let's see - that's a £0.73 overbid
hehehe
Yea - I just HAD to visit that site! ;)
Hmmm...
the news are from the
Search Engine Strategies seminar on March 9, 2000
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and they mentioned, that they have the lowest price on the net
...
could it be that they let slip something?
