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Overture (Yahoo Search Marketing) Pay
Per Click Search Features

| Engine |
Overture |
| Company Name |
Overture Services, Inc. |
| Site Location |
overture.com |
| PPC Engine start
date |
October 1997 |
| Customer Support,
email |
clientservices@overture.com |
| Customer Support,
phone |
866-999-6837 |
| Customer Support,
hours |
6a-7p Pst M-F 7a-4p Sa |
| Min to open amount
account |
$50.00 |
| Minimum bid amount |
$0.05 |
| Minimum monthly
spend |
$20.00 |
| Keyword Maximum
/account |
25,000* |
| Title, Max # Characters |
40 |
| Description, Max
# Characters |
190 |
| URL, Max # Characters |
255 |
| Plural/Singular
results combined |
Yes |
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| ... Where to find the search results |
| Hotbot |
Top 3 "sponsored search listings"
on 1st search page and 3 boxed spots , listings 4-6, on
the right side of each search page. |
| Lycos |
Top 3 "sponsored search listings"
on 1st search page and 3 boxed spots , listings 4-6, on
the right side of each search page. |
Yahoo
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Top 3 "sponsor matches" listings
towards top of 1st search page and 4-5 listings ,"more
sponsor matches", at bottom then next listings (6-8) at
top of 2cd search page 9-10 at bottom and so on.. |
| Excite |
First 5 listings in regular results
and listings 6-10 in 9-13 spots in regular results and
random listings thoughout |
| Webcrawler |
First 5 listings in regular results
and listings 6-10 in 9-13 spots in regular results and
random listings thoughout |
| Metacrawler |
Top 3 listings "featured search
results" on each search page and listings 4-8 at the bottom
of each search page, random listings throughout "Metacrawler
Results" |
| Dogpile* |
First 10 search results |
| Canada.com* |
First 10 search results |
| Infospace* |
First 10 search results |
| Altavista |
Top 4 "Sponsored Matches" listings
on each search page although an ad from doubleclick may
take 1st spot and bump 1 listing for selected search terms
and 3 next 3 listings on the right side also labeled "Sponsored
Matches". |
| Cnet |
5 listings on top right of page(
for CNET searches) and Top 5 + 11th listings in "Search
Sponsors". Then 2cd 5 listings for "see more Search Partners
results". |
| MSN |
Top 3 listings show up in spots
6-8 directly under the heading "Sponsored Sites" on first
page. Then 4-6 show up in the first 3 spots directly under
the heading "Sponsored Sites" on second page, 7-9 show
up in the first 3 spots directly under the heading "Sponsored
Sites" on third page and so on |
| Go |
All search results |
| NBCI* |
First 10 search results |
| Microsoft IE search panel |
Top 3 listings show up in spots
6-8 directly under the heading "Sponsored Sites" on first
page. Then 4-6 show up in the first 3 spots directly under
the heading "Sponsored Sites" on second page, 7-9 show
up in the first 3 spots directly under the heading "Sponsored
Sites" on third page and so on |
| NetZero |
Search box at top of "My NetZero"
page forwards to Overture site and corresponding results |
| Iwon |
Top 7 listings on 1st page "featured
listings" and complete results under "More Featured Listings" |
| Search.com |
Top 5 and 12th listings in "Search
Partners". Then 5 listings in the 8-12 spots for "see
more Search Partners results". |
| Alltheweb |
Top 3 listings on 1st page "Sponsored
Search Listings" |
Overture/Yahoo is the world's premier internet destination,
reaching over 330 million customers a month. Their search
engine marketing program offers Sponsored Search, which places
your website within the top three listings on some of the
US' top search engine pages, such as: Yahoo, Altavista, InfoSpace,
AlltheWeb, and NetZero. Overture's (Yahoo's) advertisers receive
approximately 170 million highly-targeted sales leads per
month, and reach 80% of internet users. Moreover, they offer
ContentMatch, which enables your listing to appear on the same
pages as relevant content and article information. So, when
a user goes to Yahoo to read an article, your listing will
appear before their eyes. ContentMatch also has the capacity
to target a user's interests, and direct them to your relevant
product and listing info. Whether your advertising goal is
to generate more sales, grow your lead volume, or increase
brand awareness; ContentMatch provides cost-efficient, measurable
results.
Overture offers a host of specialized high-technology features.
Drive customers from the web to your door-whether your business
has a web site or not-with their Local Sponsored Search listings.
You can precisely target prospects searching online for products
and services available in your neighborhood, and connect with
customers who are already interested in what you sell. Through
Search Submit Express, you can submit your listings for consideration
to appear in algorithmic search results powered by the Yahoo!
search engine; and you'll extend your reach beyond Sponsored
Search, and drive more sales leads. TravelSubmit offers detailed
listings of your travel offers and deals, featured
in highly-relevant areas across Yahoo Travel, giving you access
to a vast audience of motivated travelers and targeted leads.
Pay Per Click advertising on the internet is an integral
vehicle for growing your business and proactively seeking
a broad customer base that would otherwise be unavailable.
Unfortunately, without the right marketing search engine strategy
and optimization know-how, an advertiser can end up spending
a lot of precious time and money in a willy-nilly keyword
bidding war and subsequently lose a good deal of business
opportunities.
So. Your website and keywords are included in Overture's
worldwide bank of e-business possibilities. Your ready to
reach over 330 million customers clicking to your site, and
let the money roll in from their network of clicking customers,
and highly-developed search engine software. But how do you
know what keywords to choose; how to bid effectively for optimum
placement; and how to track your bids v. competitors', to ensure
you're not outbid or out-clicked by another business, offering
similar products or services? Search Engine Management. PPCBidTracker
will deliver you lower click/labor costs, monitor your
keyword bids and customer click-volume, and introduce you
to a flexible keyword bid management system; which will relentlessly
track, reposition, and optimize your keywords in accordance
to bid position and price.
PPCBidTracker can, in addition, employ its advanced management
features, such as: BidSleep to lower or turn off your bids for
a variety of time periods, BidSaver to identify predetermined
cost/savings levels when bids are lowered a predetermined
number of positions, AutoBid and Auto Enhancer to evaluate
cost/bid strategy and do your bidding for you, and customized
Bid Review scheduling. What's more, we can micromanage all
this information and tracking in sub categories, to allow additional
flexibility and ease when sifting through multiple keywords
and their progress. PPCBT displays the reports it has gathered
based on click-volume, cost, revenue, actions (sales, form
leads, etc), ROAS, CPA (Cost Per Action), and ACC (Average
Click Cost); in addition to the current bid landscape (top
ten bids) at the selected engine.
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