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ABC Search Review
Date Added: 4/1/2010     Reviewer: windychris
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Website URL: http://www.abcsearch.com
Company Name: ABCSearch
Alexa Traffic Rank: 182,255
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ABC Search Description

ABC Search is a search engine where advertisers can buy traffic on a pay per click basis. The company offers both banners and PPC through their wide distribution network. The company has partnered with Looksmart, Kanoodle, Ditto, and other niche search engines. They’ve also worked on their interface to offer advertisers better targeting and protection from click fraud.
ABC Search Detailed Overview

ABC Search is a company that has been in the traffic business for many years. Over the past few years, they’ve made many partnerships and have brought in publishers to expand their traffic. According to the company, they have now hit 5 billion searches per month through multiple channels and search traffic.

To get started with this search engine, you need to deposit $100. SearchABC matches $100 of your initial deposit which is a nice bonus for working with them. You can set up campaigns on an ad level and create your ad. Like Google Adwords, you can fine tune your title, ad copy, URL, and bids. They’ve adopted the different keyword matching features and you can use broad match, smart match, and negative match.

Broad match targets all search queries for the keywords you’ve chosen while Smart Match targets your keyword exactly with similar variations. Negative match will allow you to really hone in on your prospects as you can get rid of specific keywords so you don’t waste your advertising budget on traffic that’s not likely to convert.

The minimum bid is 5 cents per click and rather than setting a price for the whole campaign, you can bid on the individual keyword level. You can also set the max cost per click so if another advertiser outbids you, your bid will go as high as the max settings. You can also target local search queries and geo target your ads if you want a wider audience.

What makes this search engine stand out is that your landing page and quality score won’t be an issue. All you have to do is pass the editorial review. If you’re putting up a lot of campaigns, this can be annoying because the reviews take some time to get processed.

The network has also put click fraud protection into place, and with budget controls you are less likely to receive fraudulent clicks. That hasn’t changed advertisers’ complaints about the quality of traffic but the overall click fraud percentage has gone done dramatically ever since they put these features into place.

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ABC Search Reputation

Overall, ABC Search has received mixed reviews from advertisers. Some have said that they were able to get a lot of good traffic for cheap prices while others have spent their budget only to get low quality traffic that didn’t convert. With second tier search engines it’s always a guessing game whether or not the traffic will convert. The only way to find out if your market will work is to test. The network has made huge improvements for their advertisers and it’s worth testing out if you have the extra budget.

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Join ABC Search

ABC Search one of the best search engines you can find. In this system you can buy online traffic for you to promote your website. In this site I could maximize my profits from my website. I got good results using it. They have an excellent reputation I assure you I am a user.
 
 


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avatar 2,000 Credits - Top Contributor   by jmrt710 on September 18, 2012 at 9:24 AM CST
 
 
 
Ok product

This product is ok. It is not worthless but you do not have to have it. I used it for a while but was disappointed when it gave me a virus. That is what my internet connection manager told me it did. If you want to use this, have some kind of avg virus canner on hand just in case a bug is exploited and tries to get onto your computer.
 
 


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avatar 2,000 Credits - Top Contributor   by chukwizy on May 26, 2012 at 8:15 AM CST
 
 
 
Nice anti-fraud search engine

An anti-fraud search engine. A very reliable product. It also helped my website to acquire traffic and get decent income as well. Another thing is that it is secure because it prevents fraud clicks. I love the way that it boosts my traffic. I never thought that I would get that kind of traffic, 560 visitors a day is not bad after all. It is very expensive but worth a try.
 
 


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avatar 3,000 Credits - Internet Marketing Expert   by Tonyybalony on January 25, 2011 at 3:33 PM CST
 
 
 
Too much wasted funds on click fraud. Company may be/is involved

Have been advertising for over 2 years with abcsearch even before they became advertise.com.

Started well and then in June of last year, began to get unusually high click volume. Got myself a live chat support client installed on my website and started seeing incoming traffic data (with referrer information, searched key word, browser, IP address, network etc. )

What shocked me was that I was getting clicks repeatedly and all from the same source, same keyword until my funds got depleted.

Traffic came from asklots and the affiliate is 1and10. Keyword searched by the user is PHENTERMINE. The rest of the incoming clicks had the same source, same keyword but with a little variation and different IP addresses. Clicking on the link usually lands on my website but instead landed on www. scour.com. At the time of my complaint to abcsearch, it was their own search portal which they promoted and paid users to click. What? Yes. They paid users to sign up and abcsearch would pay users to search and click without interest in a purchase of good or service. They promoted click fraud through their own search engine, SCOUR. I checked again today and links land nowhere instead of SCOUR and I believe they no longer pay users to click. Abcsearch told me that the reason why the referrer link landed on SCOUR and not on the proper landing page on my website was because the link expired. How did it expire if I clicked on it right after it appeared on my live chat client referrer info? When I click on those links from other advertisers, they land on my site because that is what I pay advertisers to do! They claim to have advanced click fraud filtering system but that is a lie from my experience. Unlike other advertisers, you do not get a refund for click fraud. I have complained to them about click fraud several times before and all they do is play dumb and then block that affiliate. Then after about 1 to 2 months later, a new affiliate from whom I used to get 0 clicks in the past, starts hitting me with 135 to 200 clicks a day! Then I complain again to abcsearch and then they block that affiliate and play dumb again. The cycle would repeat and I would have to complain, threaten them and request refund again and again. I threatened them yesterday with a lawsuit and a chargeback going back 6 months if they did not refund the click fraud I experienced again and my account was closed today. Good riddance! abcsearch.com relies on www. asklots.com and SCOUR to commit fraud and they don't even hide it. If you advertise with them then I recommend installing a live chat system that tracks incoming traffic live to see what I am talking about. Let's start a class action lawsuit on these thieves.
 
 


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avatar   by netpounder on September 2, 2010 at 8:05 PM CST
 
 
 
Displays Poor Ads

I have tried different IM companies and in my experience as a client of ABC Search, I was not satisfied. The relationship started well. I signed up as an affiliate with expectations of reasonable cash flow. I'm emphasizing 'reasonable' because unlike newbies who expect millions out of IM partner programs, I don't. I just wanted to place ads in my site and earn from it. However, those reasonable expectations of a few hundreds a month did not really materialize.

The impressions were above average but it seemed like people were not even interested in clicking their ads.

Pro's: Their affiliate rate pays more than Google AdSense and Bing's AdCenter.

Con's: No one clicks their affiliate ads and that translates to no income.
 
 


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avatar   by JennB on June 26, 2010 at 6:01 PM CST
 
 
 
Search engine that prevents fraud clicks

ABC search is the best and the foremost online search engine that can buy traffic on the basis of Pay Per Click (PPC). This search engine had helped me a lot in acquiring the traffic from various parts of the world , by which I can gain a effective PPC(Pay Per Click) and attain a good revenue. The first search engine that I had found which can get the traffic on a paying basis is ABC search. This search engine had provided me with the awesome traffic with less investment on my site. This site has got such a reputation since, it provides a very effective protection towards fraud clicks by which some producers can earn huge profits. Finally it's really a worthy search engine for the genuine users who are willing to gain great profits through online services.
 
 


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avatar   by products on June 2, 2010 at 11:17 AM CST
 
 
 
Great for getting visitors and sales

ABC Search could increase your traffic rank in a real short time. I paid over $100 for ABC Search and I was getting over 700 visitors for a day. This is over 19600 visitors a month! ABC Search is really useful, it's fast, easy, and their help and support system is pretty good. I don't recommend this for beginners because if you are a beginner your website might not have enough rank, if you don't have enough rank well you won't get any sales and any visitors. Don't forget that many people don't put enough time in to get good results. By using ABC Search you will increase your sales and your traffic rank.
 
 


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avatar 2,000 Credits - Top Contributor   by 666 on May 22, 2010 at 9:04 PM CST
 
 
 
Not worth the $100

I payed my $100 for ABC Search, and I was hoping to get a lot of traffic for my business website in hopes of new clients. They made claims that my traffic would increase very rapidly over a very short period of time. Well I can tell you this, I paid $100 and got a grand total of 302 new visitors to my site. I got no new clients and made no sales while I was using ABC Search.

I would not recommend it to anyone. It gets you very few clicks.
 
 


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avatar   by Frawlz13 on April 3, 2010 at 9:41 AM CST
 
 
 
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