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coralpc
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Posted: 01/23/2006 05:36 am
I came across these two: traffic-keyword.com and 100tags.om; They're supposed to sell you keywords or what? 
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excell
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Posted: 01/23/2006 05:39 am
I'll say NO without even looking.. 
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coralpc
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Posted: 01/23/2006 05:42 am
Oddly the 1st one seems to have been launched about 2 days ago and had today 500+ unique visitors. I kinda wonder - with such exposure - would $5 be a good investment? I can see "webmaster" word isn't taken...
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SportsGuy
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Posted: 01/23/2006 05:45 am
Oh boy......
OK, let's see if I can do this justice in under 100 words (I can't...):
Basically, you buy the "rights" to traffic from a word. Their systems differ, but they show your ad to users in THEIR NETWORK whenever the user searches on the phrase you bought.
Let's try this as an example:
I bought "football skivvies".
The company sells me that word for a year, and I paid $3,000 for it.
NMow, the company has 2,000,000 users - meaning, there are 2,000,000 people who have downloaded that companies "tool/application,whatevertheheckthey'recallingit).
So, any time one of the 2,000,000 people searches on "football skivvies", my ad appears at the top of the list.
These companies typically install an application on the users computer which basically "friggs" with the search results a users sees. Sure, it still looks like Google's search results, but when that user searched for "football skivvies', I came up as # 1. Search the same thing withouth that "application" installed and I'm nowhere to be foudn in the real Google results.
Some folks consider this hijacking, and I suppose it is to a degree.
Does it work - it can, yes.
But, be warned - my actual experience has shown the QUALITY of this traffic to be 'dubious" at best. The length of time those visitors actually spent on my website was small (around 2 - 3 seconds) - so it was useless traffic for me.
Oh, and lest you htink a company having 2,000,000 users is big, it's not.
Shop carefully with this stuff.
A far better version of "contexual" ads, IMO, is that which highlights a word on a website, or underlines it. This is web-site-specific type advertising and doesn't rely (IIRC) on the user doing anything.
Basically, I buy the same word "football skivvies". Any time it appears in content on a website, it's underlined. if a user hovers over the link, they see a description of my site/offer, etc. Clicking it pops them to my website.
HTH some.
Duane
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excell
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Posted: 01/23/2006 05:49 am
I said it in 6 so I beat you.
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coralpc
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Posted: 01/23/2006 05:51 am
These don't offer any kind of membership. And prices are way too cheap imo. $5 for 1 year? /
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excell
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Posted: 01/23/2006 05:54 am
Who knows what your association with same could cost!
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SportsGuy
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Posted: 01/23/2006 06:55 am
I came across these two: traffic-keyword.com and 100tags.om; They're supposed to sell you keywords or what? rolleyeys
Internet access to post questions like this and learn - $24.95/month
These don't offer any kind of membership. And prices are way too cheap imo. $5 for 1 year? /smile
Joining a crap advertising program for a year - $5.00
Who knows what your association with same could cost!
Being associated with a craptastic product/company - PRICELESS
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flyingrose
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Posted: 01/23/2006 09:00 am
LOL at SportsGuy...
Usually you can safely avoid anything that requires users to install something to make it work.
Many Internet users have no idea of the potential headaches and negative consequences of what sound like ways to get cheap traffic...operative word here being "CHEAP" which is usually worth what you paid for it only if you're lucky.
It is something like responding to SPAM - get your FREE whatever! - and being deluged with more SPAM.
Or in the "old" days signing up for some contest or other and ending up with a mailbox full of junk mail.
In most things in life online or off you get what you pay for - and most things are worth what you paid or less.
My philosophy these days is delete all SPAM, ignore all unsolicited junk from any source, and don't sign up for any "FREE" anythings unless I know the source and am willing to pay the price (newsletter, SPAM, etc.).
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