03-17-2004, 11:45 AM
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iPowerweb is bidding over 9 bucks at Overture to get the #1 'sponsored' link on the word 'hosting' at Yahoo. If you go to Yahoo, search on 'hosting' and if you click on iPowerweb? $9.
That click costs more than a month of their lousy hosting. Not saying you *should* do it, just telling you how much they're bidding.
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03-17-2004, 11:54 AM
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Overture sucks big time. Google adwords is better
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03-17-2004, 11:56 AM
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only $9? 
Yeah, it looks like every money they have they spend it on advertising. You'll find their name all over the net. It'd hire more people for support with some of those money if I were them... but I'm not.
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Not saying you *should* do it, just telling you how much they're bidding.
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I don't think most hosts on these boards would even think about paying that much for a click...
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03-17-2004, 11:57 AM
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Still $9 bucks a click. Interesting info for hosts to know anyway.
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03-17-2004, 01:44 PM
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9 bucks a click??? wow...
why is it so much?
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03-17-2004, 01:51 PM
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There are a LOT of web hosting companies. With a lot of competition, the price increases.
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03-17-2004, 01:53 PM
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i've only heard of 15 cents max...
this is ridiculus...
o well
lucky yahoo!
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03-17-2004, 01:57 PM
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9 bucks!!!!!! wow......how many customers to you have to convert to break even
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03-17-2004, 02:01 PM
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There are much more expensives:
"dedicated hosting" = 25 bucks a click
"frontpage hosting" = 17.99 bucks a click
"site hosting" = 18.01 bucks a click
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Overture
Last edited by hcn; 03-17-2004 at 02:08 PM.
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03-17-2004, 02:07 PM
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Site hosting...nice! 18 bucks. iPowerweb is #1 on Yahoo there too...seems perhaps they caught wind however - as the link doesn't work... 
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03-17-2004, 02:16 PM
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You clicked on it? I wonder if you cost them a few bucks... LOL
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9 bucks!!!!!! wow......how many customers to you have to convert to break even
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I think it's more about branding than about sales. You can see their company listed at the top everywhere.
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03-17-2004, 02:18 PM
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I doubt they actually pay that, they have some sort of deal with overture, at the moment they're offering $50 free overture credit for signing up.
Incidently $4.01 for the top bid on "ipowerweb" any takers 
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03-17-2004, 06:06 PM
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lol that 50 bucks wont go far, so basically i cost them 9 bucks for every click from a seperate computer? Now ask youself, how evil am i
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03-17-2004, 06:16 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by hcn
There are much more expensives:
"dedicated hosting" = 25 bucks a click
"frontpage hosting" = 17.99 bucks a click
"site hosting" = 18.01 bucks a click
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Overture
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That is insane. From what I have seen, about 1/11 people that click actually buy.
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03-17-2004, 06:24 PM
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Well, Overture is pretty highly priced for advertising on Yahoo! per click.
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