Featured Listing in Smaller Search Engines

[JLogan]

Have any of you guys tried buying a featured listing on smaller search engines? How did it go?

I got this via email today and I'm thinking of trying it out:

 

[Sam1]

Does the call to action take you to a special landing page? If so where? Because I looked up their pricing and it wasn't that cheap...

 

[JLogan]

Does the call to action take you to a special landing page? If so where? Because I looked up their pricing and it wasn't that cheap...

http://www.exactseek.com/fws.html

They make you pay for 3 months minimum, which is like $15 ... still $5 a month. I also looked up some reviews and a lot of people said it wasn't really worth it.

 

[Sam1]

http://www.exactseek.com/fws.html

They make you pay for 3 months minimum, which is like $15 ... still $5 a month. I also looked up some reviews and a lot of people said it wasn't really worth it.

Ah right. Yeah I did a bit of a search as well and there were very mixed reviews. I suppose if you were an affiliate of a company with a lot of search traffic then it could work.

 

[OhioTom76]

I would be very cautious of a service like this personally. It's very likely they are just using a large network of spammy low quality sites and rotating advertisers in their network on them. If so, that's a glorified way of just running link farms and link wheels, which are frowned upon by Google.

Advertising.com in particular rings a bell. A company I worked for got a huge penalty in their organic listings, and we later discovered that the marketing agency who was managing SEO on our behalf had been buying links from unreputable sites. I want to say Advertising.com was one of them if my memory serves me correctly.

Also as the ad kind of explains, the "Top 10" rankings aren't permanent, they're likely only on occasion as your ads are in rotation with other advertisers.