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There was a time when you could buy visits from GoTo.com
for a penny each. Since GoTo.com / Overture raised the minimum
price, Ah-Ha.com is the best alternative for ROI on cost per
click advertising. And you may get lucky and win a keyword
phrase for free (at least until someone buys it).
Ah-Ha also offers several interesting options, including
their "LogoLink" program, which allows you to place
your logo next to your search listings on their partner sites.
Don't expect your hit-counter to go crazy though. Ah-Ha doesn't
generate the same volumes of traffic that their main competitor,
Overture, does. And, they're still working some of the bugs
out of their administration software. You will be unable to
track your impressions (you will be able to track your click-throughs,
but not the total impressions).
Ah-Ha Search Engine Analysis
URL:
http://www.ah-ha.com
FREE ADD URL:
http://www.ah-ha.com/list/list_addurl.asp
THE KEY:
Do a ROI analysis before buying any visitors. Sign up for
the "LogoLink" program and be a top-three bidder.
DIRECTORY:
Like DogPile and GoTo.com/Overture, Ah-Ha.com has no directory.
What appears at first glance to be a directory is really a
bunch of shortcut searches.
SEARCH RESULTS:
The search results are paid listings, unless none has been
purchased. In that event, the results are ah-ha database results.
RELATIONSHIPS:
Currently Ah-Ha has relationships with hundreds of 2nd and
3rd tier search engines and gets 5-7 million searches every
day (examples include Mamma, DogPile, Search123, abcSearch,
TurboFind, SureSeeker, BigWhat, InfoSpace, and SearchRocket).
They also have two flag-ship relationships with AltaVista
and LookSmart. On both, the top three Ah-Ha bidders who have
also signed up for a service called "LogoLink" have
their logos and 70-80 character descriptions displayed in
the right-hand column. The "LogoLink" program is
$9.95/month. Don't count on seeing your ads on AltaVista and
LookSmart too often though. Both conpanies rotate different
advertisers through their space.
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