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Pay Per Click Guide 2002

The way we were.......

These are the views back in 2002.

 

Splut

Sounds like a butterfly just met with a nasty accident. Search results are really lacking on this one. Doubt whether searchers will want to come back.

Price Minimum Account: £50 Minimum Bid: £0.01
Speed Needs more speed.
Results Bid amounts are listed in the results. Powered by: Looks like they are relying only on their own fodder. Limited results.
Interface Nice to see a banner free search results page.
Extras If you put a splut link on your site you will get a favourable listing towards the top of the search results.


Turbo10

This is my favourite. It is the first search engine I’ve seen that reduces browsing time. Using a search-o-meter, as they call it, you can instantly jump to anywhere in the search results. This is a powerful search engine that puts the user in control.

Price Minimum Account: £25 Minimum Bid: £0.03
Speed Fast. This search engine certainly gets through the results quickly.
Results Bid amounts are not listed in the results. Powered by: DMOZ – human edited listings and a variety of others.
Interface Very clean and easy to use. Good to see no annoying banner ads.
Extras They receive about 4 million searches a day. They have taken the scroll bar out of searching. Unique functional buttons to flick quickly through the results.


GoClick

It is easy to get going with this one with its helpful beginner's guide and reasonably priced first time sign-up fee.

Price Minimum Account: $10 to start, $25 after that. Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Fast
Results Bid amounts are listed in the results. Powered by: DMOZ and FindWhat
Interface Simplistic. Easy to navigate through the site.
Extras Offers a cool BidMaster(tm) bidding tool that intelligently raises or lowers your bids to the highest position possible, limited by a maximum bid amount you enter. 


espotting

These guys have developed a good network of partners in the UK, including Yahoo Europe, AskJeeves, Lycos, and UKPlus.

Price Minimum Account: Bronze package starts at £99 Minimum Bid: £0.05
Speed Average
Results Bid amounts are listed in the results. Powered by: Inktomi
Interface Looks good. You can also include your corporate logo.
Extras Offers a Gold package for £249 - they will create your keywords and descriptions for you. 


Brainfox

You definitely need a brain to figure out your bids with this one. Brainfox is positioning itself as one of the budget PPC search engines with bids starting at $0.001.

Price Minimum Account: $5 Minimum Bid: $0.001
Speed Good speed.
Results Bid amounts are not displayed. Powered by: Own results
Interface Very plain. Easy enough to use.
Extras Offer free 250% top up on your initial deposit. Actively support missing children fund through their site.










Seek99

Seek out some free listings with this one. Seek99 enables advertisers to list keywords for 7 days free on their first page.

Price Minimum Account: $25 Minimum Bid: $0.02
Speed Average
Results Bid amounts are not displayed. Powered by: Another PPC results provider
Interface Easy to use. Simple, uncluttered interface. No annoying banner ads.
Extras Offers users a toolbar, web mail and chat. Also offers an affiliate program.


iBound

You are bound to sign up with this PPC as you can open an account for free.

Price Minimum Account: $10 Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Good speed.
Results Bid amounts are listed in the results. Powered by: MSN results
Interface This engine has a very clean and appealing interface. Provides news headlines on the right hand side.
Extras Advertisers who spend more than $500 per month are offered good discounts. They also offer PPC banner advertisements.


Looksmart UK

This was lookin' good at Looksmart UK however it looks like they have closed up shop. It appears you can no longer sign-up for a PPC account with them.

Price Minimum Account: £60 Minimum Bid: £0.05
Speed Good speed.
Results Bid amounts are not listed in the results. Powered by: It's own engine
Interface Paid results are listed as 'Featured Sites' at the top of the results set.
Extras You have a choice of three payment methods: 1. pay as you go, 2. fixed monthly, 3. Auto Rollover.


Pointcom

This PPC engine points you in the direction of safe surfing...just follow the pointed finger.

Price Minimum Account: $25 Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Good speed.
Results Bid amounts are not listed in the results. Powered by: Doesn't say.
Interface Very simplistic homepage interface. I like their fingerpointing logo.
Extras You can also sign up for targeted banner advertisements and affiliate search programs to gain additional revenue to your site.


Work at Home Search Engine

This is a good PPC engine especially if you are looking to promote 'work from home' related goods or services. When you sign up they give you $10 US worth of free clicks.

Price Minimum Account: No set minimum amount. Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Good speed.
Results Bid amounts are displayed in the results. Powered by: DMOZ - Open Directory Project.
Interface Lists up to 20 results per page.
Extras When you top up your account you also receive bonus credit. Also the top 10 featured sites are listed on the front page for extra exposure.


MyGeek

Now known as AdOn Network. This used to be a specialist shopping PPC engine, however it now promotes itself as straight pay per click engine.

Price Minimum Account: $20 Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Good speed.
Results Bid amounts are listed on the site. Powered by: own listings
Interface Basic, easy to use design. Good to see no annoying banner ads.
Extras Cool feature - Shop-By-Request: Enables a shopper to submit a specific shopping request and sellers answer with personal replies.


Gazabo

Promotes itself as the affordable PPC engine and offers up to 1000 free clicks when you join.

Price Minimum Account: No minimum starting amount. Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Good speed.
Results Bid amounts are displayed. Powered by: DMOZ Directory
Interface Shows up to 20 results per page. Easy to use.
Extras They offer $10.00 worth of free clicks just for signing up. If you put a link back to them they will offer you up to $25.00 worth of free clicks.


Search Madness

This new PPC engine is offering mad discounts. When you sign up you will receive 200% on top of your first deposit, so if your first deposit is $50.00, you will get $100 worth of clicks free.

Price Minimum Account: $10. Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Good speed.
Results Bid amounts are displayed in the results. Powered by: Searchfeed.com
Interface Shows up to 10 results per page. Simple design and easy to use.
Extras They also have monthly drawings to win $500 worth of clicks. Good to see no annoying banner ads.


Pageseeker

Claims to be the world’s first new media search engine. You can select the design of your site. I like the disco design and cool disco tune. But after the gimmick wears off and you want to get down to some serious searching it becomes very annoying. No Saturday Night Fever happening with this one.

Price Minimum Account: Couldn’t find it. Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Slow. It is really difficult to quickly scan the results.
Results Top 5 results are listed twice on the page for no good reason. Bid amounts are not listed on the site. Powered by: Doesn’t say
Interface Its design makes it an ineffective search engine. Visually toxic.
Extras Enables the user to tailor the look and feel of the site using skins.


Sabril

Their slogan is: Search that pays. It pays alright but not for the advertiser. Sabril is one of those PPC search engines that pay searchers to click through their results. This site unashamedly states at the top of their results: Note: You must remain on each site for at least 20 seconds. You are allowed up to 15 visits per day.

Price Minimum Amount Account: $25 Minimum Bid: ?
Speed Slow
Results Bid amounts are not listed in results. Powered by: Sabril.com
Interface Amateurish. Not easy to navigate through results. Paid results are not integrated within the rest of the results.
Extras Paid listings tell the searcher how many credits they will gain by clicking on the link.


Godado

It took me a moment to work out how to pronounce this one. Gives you the opportunity to personalise your search results by changing the font size and colours, more trouble than it’s worth.

Price Minimum Account: 50 Euro Minimum Bid: 0.02 Euro
Speed Could be quicker.
Results Bid amounts are listed in the results. Powered by: Mamma.com
Interface There is a large distance between the search field and the search results which detracts from the results. This is quite annoying.
Extras Ability to list in Italy, France, Spain and Germany. This PPC search also enables you to search on MP3 and includes a thesaurus.


FindWhat

This PPC engine has been one of the first and is worth a look at.

Price Minimum Account: $25 Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Good speed.
Results Bid amounts are listed in results. Powered by: DirectHit
Interface Very clean interface. Easy to navigate. The back end account is very easy to use.
Extras Offers banner advertising on their site.


Search Cactus

Search Cactus is certainly no desert for clickers using this search engine. Unfortunately, this one pays searchers to click through their results. Not only do they pay for clickers they also pay $2.00 for signing up with them.

Price Minimum Account: $25.00 Minimum Bid: $0.02
Speed Good.
Results Bid amounts not listed. Powered by: Google
Interface Easy to search.
Extras Also allows advertisers to send targeted direct e-mails to their paid members.


CleanSearch

As the name suggests, CleanSearch focuses on providing porn free results. This is a family oriented site.

Price Minimum Account: $25 Minimum Bid: $0.05
Speed Average
Results Bid amounts listed in the results. Powered by: Inktomi
Interface Straightforward to use.
Extras I like the scrub brush idea, which allows a searcher to click on a scrub brush icon next to a listing and have it reviewed for not being a ‘clean’ result.


Ah-ha

Now Enhance. With this PPC engine you can also include a small graphical banner logo next to your text listing.

Price Minimum Account: $25 Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Good Speed. Some list numbering and page numbers would be useful.
Results Bid amounts are listed in the results. Powered by: Fast
Interface Clean and easy to use.
Extras Money can be refunded within a 30 day trial period.


Search Galore

Search Galore offer Quality vs Quantity Searching, not much quality here. Doubt whether searchers would come back to this site.

Price Minimum Account: $25 Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Quite slow
Results Bid amounts listed. Result sets not integrated. Powered by: Yahoo.
Interface Lacks professionalism.
Extras Offers pay per click banner advertisements as well.


Searchhound

This PPC search engine is just sniffing for advertiser’s money. I can’t see why this one is so expensive with accounts starting at $100.

Price Minimum Account: $100 Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Average
Results Bid amounts are listed in the results. Results ranked by: Neural Network Intelligence.
Interface The page is divided up into 5 paid results and then 5 unpaid results, rather than listing all the paid results first.
Extras Each results page has a save function that enables you record the results.


Overture

Originally called Goto, this is now Yahoo! Search Marketing Products.

Price Minimum Account: £25 Minimum Bid: $0.05
Speed Good
Results Bids amounts are listed in the results. Powered by: Inktomi
Interface Results page is clean. Easy to navigate.
Extras Has links with America Online and a great partner network.


Win4Win

Offer a chance to be included in a TV commercial but this offer was made months ago. They haven’t updated their website lately.

Price Minimum Account: $25 Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed OK.
Results Bid amounts are listed in the results. Powered by: It was once powered by Google but not sure now. Looks like their fodder is from another PPC.
Interface Smart. Looks busy.
Extras Express sign-up service offered for $100 and will help to select your key words. When you sign up you get a free $5 worth of credit.


Kanoodle

This PPC search engine it is also a portal site for music groups, personals, ecards, love and advice columns, and horoscopes.

Price Minimum Account: $25 Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Quite slow to show results.
Results Bid amounts are listed in the results. Some listings appear twice in the results. Powered by: Looks like fodder from other PPC search engines.
Interface A lot is happening on the site.
Extras Offers an $99 express sign-up and will help you select your keywords.


efind

You’ll find no genuine clicks here. efind has a slot machine spin on every search results page. By clicking on the paid listings (with a jackpot icon), searchers can search and win up to 20 times daily.

Price Minimum Account: Not sure. Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Good
Results Bid amounts are listed in the results. Powered by: Inktomi
Interface Too much is going on. The slot machine detracts from the search experience.
Extras Jackpot pull symbol is placed next to the top three paid listings, as if this is an enticement to have to pay for non-genuine clicks.


businessnation

Difficult to get searching with this one.

Price Minimum Account: $25 Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Slow
Results Poor search capability. Bid amounts are listed in the results. Powered by: DMOZ
Interface Confusing front page.
Extras Is also a small business resource centre.


searchbidder

I am a little worried about this one. There is a section under construction: Earn $$$ Fast....could they be planning to pay people to click through the results? I hope not!

Price Minimum Account: $25 Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Good
Results Bid amounts are listed in the results. Powered by: Doesn't say.
Interface Clean interface and easy to navigate. Easy to use back end account.
Extras You can open an account and receive $25 free.


Hotways

This looks like it is just starting out.

Price Minimum Account: $25 Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Good speed.
Results Bid amounts are listed. Paid listings are not integrated with other search results. Powered by: Doesn’t say.
Interface Very basic. Easy to navigate.
Extras You can select a search category e.g. pictures, discussion groups, videos.


7search

This PPC search engine also allows you to submit your site for free.

Price Minimum Account: $25 Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Slow moving through the results.
Results Bid amounts are listed in the results. Powered by: their own listings and DirectHit.
Interface A lot is happening on the home page.
Extras They currently have over 1.5 million unique visitors and 400 million searches. Also offers a 7search metasearch capability.


Bliznetwork

This one was just starting out. It now offers Synergistic Marketing and Search Engine Optimisation.

Price Minimum Account:$10 Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Seems to be fairly fast.
Results Bid amounts are listed in the results. Powered by: Raging.com.
Interface Average looking site.
Extras MP3 and Auction search. Advertisers get an extra 200% credit when making a first time deposit.


Searchport

Formerly a Big What? Searchport is supposed to be a map-based search engine, no maps came on any of my global searches. This will be good when it develops.



Price Minimum Account: $25 Minimum Bid: $0.01
Speed Good Speed.
Results Bid amounts are listed in the results. Powered by: Doesn’t seem to be any fodder as yet.
Interface Nice colours, but the banner ads are really annoying in the results.
Extras Can add a listing for free.




Other Pay Per Click Engines

  • Azbazr.com

  • Snatchall.net

  • Infoferret.com

  • 101homeresources.com

  • Searchlane.com

  • Sharksearch.com

  • FortuneGames.com

  • Work-at-home-find.com

  • Search.FFAMall.com

  • Sexministry.com

  • Search-Bid.com

  • Fetchfast.com

  • 1List.com

  • Search123.com

  • iGrep.com

  • Superfilou.com

  • SearchnShop.com

  • 1clic.com

  • GoGetMLM.com

  • Netgadget.com

  • SearchNewYorkCity.com

  • SearchElephant.com

  • Search2003.com

  • ForwardOne.com

  • Search99.com

  • HeatSearch.com

  • WarpSeek.com

  • Seek.net.nz

  • Wholesalegopher.com

  • Clickthebest.com

  • SearchChum.com

  • SeekInsider.com

  • LifeTips.com

  • SeekOver.com

  • Search-raven.com

  • PPC-search.net

  • Pocketflier.com


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