SearchBud
03-19-2002, 12:42 PM
Hello everyone,
I have decided to put my PPC search engine (http://www.searchbud.com) up for sale here @ webhostingtalk.com. I'm looking for anyone who is interested in a great oppertunity to run your own pay-per-click search engine just like "goto.com". I have been running this site alone for the past 3 months. It is a custom designed, fully licensed site, and it includes the awesome domain name "SearchBud.com", as well as all images, html, and custom scripting. The site uses the SmartSearch scripts (from www.smartcgis.com) written in perl. They have been extensively modified and there has been well over $700 worth of custom programming put into them to create several new features, including a "google-type" sponsored listings collumn.
Search Features
Everything is automated with professional scripts.
Site accepts PayPal and 2checkout payments, no merchant account necessary.
Web sites bid money to get listed, they pay every time someone clicks through to their site from your search.
You can set a minimum bid amount.
Add or remove categories in seconds.
Can handle thousands of listings per keyword. That's more than enough (Goto.com has an average of 40 listings per keyword).
Only daily unique clicks are counted (to prevent fake clicking).
Clicks are counted, the site is charged according to how much they bid, and the visitor is redirected to that site instantly.
Sites are only listed under keywords they have bid on, and if they have enough money in their accounts.
Optionally let members bid on a "catch all" keyword. This means the listing is displayed for any keyword that has no bids on it, anything from "computer hardware" to nonsense like "aekjfdsjkfds". This is an excellent option for members who don't need targeted traffic, and you can make lots of extra money!
You can optionally choose to "verify all bids". If you choose to do this, then no bids will be posted until you (the admin) verifiy's them through the admin center. Submissions are easier to manage by admin. You can select multiple submissions to approve, or deny, all at once! This is optional, and is turned off right now.
Submission approval/denial e-mails sent to members contain full list of all approved/denied submissions (instead of separate e-mail for each keyword).
Create low-level admin accounts for your employees to manage submissions only!
Display listings from MSN.com after bided results.
Put limit on number of "catch all" listings that will be displayed.
Create list of member e-mails or send message to all of them directly from admin.
Unique Feature: Users can bid on a "google-type" sponsored listing that is displayed on all pages of the site. The top 5 highest bids are automatically displayed! Very popular! This feature is unique, you won't find it on any other sites for sale like this one!
Administration Features
Admin page lets you approve/deny submissions, view detailed info about members, and add/subtract money from their accounts.
E-mail notifications sent to members for everything from signup to approved submissions. You can edit every aspect of the emails very easily!
Passwords are encrypted for the admin and members, as well as the data used to count clicks (to prevent anyone from messing with it).
Warning e-mail is sent out before a customer's account runs out of funds (any amount of days in advance that you want).
Search keywords are logged and can be viewed instantly.
Admin can view any number of top keywords or top members (by account balance).
Admin area shows each member's bid listings.
Admin can delete individual keyword listings
Account payments through paypal.com are inserted into members accounts instantly. Credit card payments (if enabled) can be accepted instantly through the admin with 1 click.
Users cannot signup more than once. You can remove this feature, however to prevent fraud I have left it on.
You can have a confirmation e-mail sent before new accounts are opened.
You can set an opening amount of money that is given to each user upon sign up (in other words, a sign up bonus). Currentely this is set to $10.00 (special promition to get more sign ups, and it's worked!) but you can set it to any figure you want, including $0.00.
Members Area Features
Main page with news/updates, account balance update, average money spent per day, and estimated time until they run out of money.
Manage Listings, where members can add/edit/delete search listings and change their bids.
Info and password changing page.
Allow members to upload Excel Spreadsheet files for quick and easy submission of multiple listings.
"Top Bid It!" button puts a member's selected listings in the #1 spots automatically.
Member bid management areas are greatly improved. It's now easier to find, view and select actions for their listings!
Special search to quickly check bids placed on keywords by others.
Advanced stats which are updated instantly (with Goto.com you can only check the previous day's stats)!
Link to instructions on how to make payments and add funds to their accounts.
Lost password lookup tool.
Very easy 3-step process to add funds to their account instantly through paypal, no work required!
What's included in the sale?
Besides the products or services listed above you will also receive the following:
Ownership of domain SearchBud.com transferred in your name for FREE $10 Value (although obviously worth much more)
Fully operational super website and custom designed logo (btw, I paid a professional artist $45 to do the logo on the site, I have the original reciepts for it also.
Complete admin center. Pretty much the entire site can be controlled via the custom admin center.
Includes 5 months of FREE web hosting. Your also more than welcome to move to your own host of choice, I will help you move the site to wherever you choose!
All Scripts and html files associated with the website
SearchBud.com has ALREADY been SUBMITTED to over 20 SEARCH ENGINES (including google, msn, lycos, altavista)!
30 days of unconditional technical support! We offer support via e-mail, telephone, fax & live chat (through ICQ, MSN, YAHOO or AOL).
About SearchBud.com
These are most of the features available on SearchBud.com. I'm sure I left a few out. Your best bet is to have a look
and see for yourself! I strongly suggest all interested parties visit searchbud.com and
mess around with every single fuction available on the site! I have build it from the ground up, and have
invested hundreds of dollars into it. The site currently gets approximately 4,500 unique visitors per month, and has over 950 keywords bidded on. When a keyword is searched that doesn't have any bids, it will display the "catch-all" listings. To see bidded searches, try searcing for common words like "sex" & "gamble". Why am
I selling it? Several reasons. I'm heading off to college in May and will have no time to keep the site up to date
(not that it requires all that much time), but the main reason is i've never been really good at marketing. I feel the
site has gone to waste over the past 3 months. Despite it being fairly successful and getting a vast number of hits each
month, it hasn't reached it's full potential, and therefore I am looking to sell it to someone who can take it to the top.
Sale & Payment Terms
To make a bid, you can either e-mail me directly at Bids@SearchBud.com or, you can post your bid on these forums.
I am looking for serious parties only please. Only bids above $300 US will be *considered*. I am open to using most any type of payment service,
including Escrow.com & Paypal. There are no hidden fees or costs. The only costs you will be resposible for, are your bid, renewal of the domain name (it doesn't expire for 9 months)
and the hosting fees (6 months of free hosting included, unless you choose to switch to another host). FYI, This is the first time I have posted this site for sale, ANYWHERE.
Best of luck to everyone.
Adam de Jaray
bids@searchbud.com
http://www.searchbud.com
I have decided to put my PPC search engine (http://www.searchbud.com) up for sale here @ webhostingtalk.com. I'm looking for anyone who is interested in a great oppertunity to run your own pay-per-click search engine just like "goto.com". I have been running this site alone for the past 3 months. It is a custom designed, fully licensed site, and it includes the awesome domain name "SearchBud.com", as well as all images, html, and custom scripting. The site uses the SmartSearch scripts (from www.smartcgis.com) written in perl. They have been extensively modified and there has been well over $700 worth of custom programming put into them to create several new features, including a "google-type" sponsored listings collumn.
Search Features
Everything is automated with professional scripts.
Site accepts PayPal and 2checkout payments, no merchant account necessary.
Web sites bid money to get listed, they pay every time someone clicks through to their site from your search.
You can set a minimum bid amount.
Add or remove categories in seconds.
Can handle thousands of listings per keyword. That's more than enough (Goto.com has an average of 40 listings per keyword).
Only daily unique clicks are counted (to prevent fake clicking).
Clicks are counted, the site is charged according to how much they bid, and the visitor is redirected to that site instantly.
Sites are only listed under keywords they have bid on, and if they have enough money in their accounts.
Optionally let members bid on a "catch all" keyword. This means the listing is displayed for any keyword that has no bids on it, anything from "computer hardware" to nonsense like "aekjfdsjkfds". This is an excellent option for members who don't need targeted traffic, and you can make lots of extra money!
You can optionally choose to "verify all bids". If you choose to do this, then no bids will be posted until you (the admin) verifiy's them through the admin center. Submissions are easier to manage by admin. You can select multiple submissions to approve, or deny, all at once! This is optional, and is turned off right now.
Submission approval/denial e-mails sent to members contain full list of all approved/denied submissions (instead of separate e-mail for each keyword).
Create low-level admin accounts for your employees to manage submissions only!
Display listings from MSN.com after bided results.
Put limit on number of "catch all" listings that will be displayed.
Create list of member e-mails or send message to all of them directly from admin.
Unique Feature: Users can bid on a "google-type" sponsored listing that is displayed on all pages of the site. The top 5 highest bids are automatically displayed! Very popular! This feature is unique, you won't find it on any other sites for sale like this one!
Administration Features
Admin page lets you approve/deny submissions, view detailed info about members, and add/subtract money from their accounts.
E-mail notifications sent to members for everything from signup to approved submissions. You can edit every aspect of the emails very easily!
Passwords are encrypted for the admin and members, as well as the data used to count clicks (to prevent anyone from messing with it).
Warning e-mail is sent out before a customer's account runs out of funds (any amount of days in advance that you want).
Search keywords are logged and can be viewed instantly.
Admin can view any number of top keywords or top members (by account balance).
Admin area shows each member's bid listings.
Admin can delete individual keyword listings
Account payments through paypal.com are inserted into members accounts instantly. Credit card payments (if enabled) can be accepted instantly through the admin with 1 click.
Users cannot signup more than once. You can remove this feature, however to prevent fraud I have left it on.
You can have a confirmation e-mail sent before new accounts are opened.
You can set an opening amount of money that is given to each user upon sign up (in other words, a sign up bonus). Currentely this is set to $10.00 (special promition to get more sign ups, and it's worked!) but you can set it to any figure you want, including $0.00.
Members Area Features
Main page with news/updates, account balance update, average money spent per day, and estimated time until they run out of money.
Manage Listings, where members can add/edit/delete search listings and change their bids.
Info and password changing page.
Allow members to upload Excel Spreadsheet files for quick and easy submission of multiple listings.
"Top Bid It!" button puts a member's selected listings in the #1 spots automatically.
Member bid management areas are greatly improved. It's now easier to find, view and select actions for their listings!
Special search to quickly check bids placed on keywords by others.
Advanced stats which are updated instantly (with Goto.com you can only check the previous day's stats)!
Link to instructions on how to make payments and add funds to their accounts.
Lost password lookup tool.
Very easy 3-step process to add funds to their account instantly through paypal, no work required!
What's included in the sale?
Besides the products or services listed above you will also receive the following:
Ownership of domain SearchBud.com transferred in your name for FREE $10 Value (although obviously worth much more)
Fully operational super website and custom designed logo (btw, I paid a professional artist $45 to do the logo on the site, I have the original reciepts for it also.
Complete admin center. Pretty much the entire site can be controlled via the custom admin center.
Includes 5 months of FREE web hosting. Your also more than welcome to move to your own host of choice, I will help you move the site to wherever you choose!
All Scripts and html files associated with the website
SearchBud.com has ALREADY been SUBMITTED to over 20 SEARCH ENGINES (including google, msn, lycos, altavista)!
30 days of unconditional technical support! We offer support via e-mail, telephone, fax & live chat (through ICQ, MSN, YAHOO or AOL).
About SearchBud.com
These are most of the features available on SearchBud.com. I'm sure I left a few out. Your best bet is to have a look
and see for yourself! I strongly suggest all interested parties visit searchbud.com and
mess around with every single fuction available on the site! I have build it from the ground up, and have
invested hundreds of dollars into it. The site currently gets approximately 4,500 unique visitors per month, and has over 950 keywords bidded on. When a keyword is searched that doesn't have any bids, it will display the "catch-all" listings. To see bidded searches, try searcing for common words like "sex" & "gamble". Why am
I selling it? Several reasons. I'm heading off to college in May and will have no time to keep the site up to date
(not that it requires all that much time), but the main reason is i've never been really good at marketing. I feel the
site has gone to waste over the past 3 months. Despite it being fairly successful and getting a vast number of hits each
month, it hasn't reached it's full potential, and therefore I am looking to sell it to someone who can take it to the top.
Sale & Payment Terms
To make a bid, you can either e-mail me directly at Bids@SearchBud.com or, you can post your bid on these forums.
I am looking for serious parties only please. Only bids above $300 US will be *considered*. I am open to using most any type of payment service,
including Escrow.com & Paypal. There are no hidden fees or costs. The only costs you will be resposible for, are your bid, renewal of the domain name (it doesn't expire for 9 months)
and the hosting fees (6 months of free hosting included, unless you choose to switch to another host). FYI, This is the first time I have posted this site for sale, ANYWHERE.
Best of luck to everyone.
Adam de Jaray
bids@searchbud.com
http://www.searchbud.com