Your experience with PPC Search Engines?

[RMF]

Share you experience!

Have you advertised your website/domain on search engines?. If so, what was your experience in doing so? Was there a service better then another? Did you battle more click fraud from one place then another? Did you get more sales or quality traffic from one search engine then another?

I'm thinking about using Google soon, and possibly a couple others.

RMF

[hiOsilver]

I have checked out a bunch of them. So, I created a website: www.PPCIncome.com which reviews DomainSponsor, Fabulous, Sedo, DomainSpa, TrafficZ & NetVisibility.

Google feeds advertisers to DomainSponsor and Sedo, I believe.

Without a doubt, DomainSponsor has worked best for my diversified domain portfolio. I am talking about bottom line. Now, you need to have about 1000 unique views per day to qualify for DS Premier, which is the way you get the Google links and the much higher CPM. I have been averaging around $18/cpm with DS Premier.

The stats on Fabulous are absolutely the best, with DS in 2nd place.

Sedo is good for some foreign traffic, especially UK.

[TheWatcher]

I second that ppcincome.com research website is helpful, give up the good work.

Best regards,
TW

[RMF]

Actually, I was looking for information on the other end of them. Not so much about using PPC's on domains, but promoting websites on PPC's.

RMF

[Yojimbo]

I have used Overture, Google Adwords, Findwhat and Pageseeker for the last two and a half years promoting products I sell on the web. In the beginning it was great because the per click charge was around a nickel and there wasn't much competition. Now the per click charge is up around $2 for some of my products and at times almost negates any profit. If there are other sellers on the net selling the same product and utilizing the PPC's then you may have a difficult time justifying the expenditure. However, if you are the first in and can exploit it for awhile in a non-competitive environment then they are great. I've had similar performance out of Overture and Google. Findwhat and Pageseeker are no where near the same level of volume. Google Adwords is the easiest to use and is less restrictive editorially and they sent me a big beachtowel after spending about $50k in click charges one year : ) . Overture is very picky about how you word your ads and will deny quite a few of the editorial changes you try to make to your ads which wastes a lot of your time. Also, eBay seems to have some agreement with them where they show up on top for practically every product known to man and you can't outbid them. I would recommend using the PPC's but just be careful in the beginning with the keywords you choose and be as specific as you can to make sure you are only paying for very targeted traffic.