Business Website URL Submission

Business Website URL Submission

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regmolehusband

Original Poster:

4,017 posts

264 months

Sunday 18th January 2004
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Has anybody had any immediately measurable success with the many free or paid for URL submission services you can find on the internet claiming to submit to multiple search engines? And does Yahoo really want £199 for a business URL or is there another way in?

I went on a day's course last year and they said some of the key search engines will penalise you via your ranking if they are bombarded with submissions from such companies.

"Reg"

>>> Edited by regmolehusband on Monday 19th January 08:41

stooz

3,005 posts

291 months

Monday 19th January 2004
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www.content.overture.com/d/UKm/ays/index.jhtml

Overture do the sponsored ads on yahoo, etc.

Google have there own ads software. very easy to control your advertising and budget online.
I know its not what your after, but you will find the major engines are pushing paid advertising rather than search links. And you can gaurantee to be in the top 5.

furby

378 posts

253 months

Monday 19th January 2004
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I have had pretty good successes in teh past with a 3rd party supplier I use for clients, used to be circa £200 but now up to circa £400.
It is all pretty subjective though, we could get you good success on a search for something really obscure like, Depth of tyre tread on Wokingham TVR, as you would undoubtedly be the only one with those criteria, but with just, TVR, for example that would return loads of returns. Its all about knowing how people would search for you and building your search criteria around that.
And keep on submitting your site every month.
Certain search engines will bar sites which are submitted via software, as they recognise this and bar you. You can manually submit the site yourself to most of the majors to save you money, but do get the coding right so you do get picked up.
Drop me a mail via my profile if you need and I can give you some advise or point you to companies which specialise in these services, but whether it is worth you pennies paying for this is debatable in my mind.

regmolehusband

Original Poster:

4,017 posts

264 months

Monday 19th January 2004
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Thanks Stooz and Furby. I've signed up with Overture today so will see if they can improve the number of hits!

furby

378 posts

253 months

Monday 19th January 2004
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Good luck with that Reg, it would be good to know the results you get from this. Especially if you find the service to be good value.

If you need any further advise or assistance do let me know.

regmolehusband

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4,017 posts

264 months

Monday 19th January 2004
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Overture looks good in that you can set a click-through monthly budget so that get rid of my worries about the potential cost of suddenyl receiving thousands of hits with as yet unknown return! I've set the budget at just £75 a month at present to see how it goes.

Thanks furby

furby

378 posts

253 months

Monday 19th January 2004
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I've looked at these 'pay for click' through schemes before, and have even advised against them for various reasons in respect of my customer and effective use of budget, rather than qulaity of service and response rate.

I read through my previous message and hope i didn't give a negative response regarding these services, as I have no hands on experience, I am unqualified for such remarks. But as i said before you knowledge in this area would be great for me.

Would I be able to ask you what you web site is? I assume you are a sales driven site? If you would prefer not to post info here I understand, if you prefer you can mail me direct at dave@vingtquatre.net

rfl

52 posts

257 months

Monday 19th January 2004
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Have good experience from both google adwords and kanoodle.com or is that kandoodle.com?? and basically established a new business off the back of this alone.

Fortunately the sector that we are in has few people competing for keywords and so is cheap to get a top ranking which massively affects click through rates. Once looked at car finance related keywords and under some searches was going to need to pay £2+ for a click through!

If you are going to do adwords style advertising, play around with the wording in your links- we doubled click through rates in some cases by adjusting ad link to reflect a particular keyword search. Beware though monitoring them can be addictive.

God that last comment makes me sound really sad!

regmolehusband

Original Poster:

4,017 posts

264 months

Wednesday 21st January 2004
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I've subcribed to adwords as well !!

Thanks chaps - this is fun

dontlift

9,396 posts

265 months

Thursday 22nd January 2004
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We use overture and ad-words.

Our main advertising goes on overture and quicky campaigns and special offers vie ad-words as we find ad-words far too expensive to use for everything.


To be honest our most effective advertising is via affiliate programs

>> Edited by dontlift on Thursday 22 January 08:19

dontlift

9,396 posts

265 months

Thursday 22nd January 2004
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regmolehusband, what is your URL post it up and I will have a look and see if there is more can be done to get you additional search engine traffic without paying for PPC

>> Edited by dontlift on Thursday 22 January 10:08

regmolehusband

Original Poster:

4,017 posts

264 months

Thursday 22nd January 2004
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Thanks Dontlift....

www.noflatbatteries.com

dontlift

9,396 posts

265 months

Friday 23rd January 2004
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YHM

regmolehusband

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4,017 posts

264 months

Saturday 24th January 2004
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YHM Rob - my hit rate is increasing quite nicely at the moment as a result of Adwords and Overture. One superb enquiry came in yesterday evening from one of the larger water utilities.

"Reg"