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Any advices would be appreciated with the following :-
* Joined Overture as 'Full Serve Advantage' client for our business website on 27th April, 2002.
* Have made many calls since to U.S. head office for Overture, sorting out final 'Search terms' as eligible in the above plan.
* Instructed on 10th May, 2002 (full week later) that NetMechanic.com now has our Search terms for listing with 12 major Engines incl. Yahoo, Altavista, MSN etc..
* Over a week since, and still no signs of listings in any of 12 engines OR Overture.
QUESTIONS :
Can anyone offer advice on how long before these listings will begin to filter through ?
Which 12 S/Engines exactly will be the ones submitted to under the TOP Level with Overture ?
and ALSO,
Can you confirm that YAHOO still utilises Overture paid listings in their site ?
AND finally
Can anyone also advise if WEBPOSITION GOLD still is as useful as it used to be, as we are having great difficulties in seeing our GOOGLE LISTINGS appear at all, after Submitting with WPG on 15th March 2002 (some 2 months ago now !).
Thanks in advance to all who can help.
PM
(edited by: Marcia at 2:22 pm (utc) on May 19, 2002)
I run several Overture accounts and my listings usually show up VERY fast - faster than advertised, in fact - usually 24 hours after actually submitting the bids, search terms and descriptions. However, I've always been a "self serve" kind of guy.
In your case, I believe Overutre is doing this for you, right? Well, they have had some system problems (their reporting tools were down all weekend) so maybe that's part of the picture. I'd call and find out what's what. After all you paid for their service.
I'm assuming that NetMechanic takes care of the submissions that the Overture "Full Serve" program mentions. Well, that's nothing to get worked up about...I don't know how much good it will do anyway
Today most search engines don't depend on their submission tools (which get spammed to death anyway). True spidering engines crawl the web and find their own food by following links - so you should have some inbound links from other sites to get into and stay in most major search engines.
Yes, Yahoo still runs Overture ads. It's a major traffic source, even if they do truncate the descriptions I work out so carefully.
About Google listings - two months is about the outside you should have to wait. But again, especially with Google, you need inbound links.
