Idearc Media

[Cal]

Just signed contract with Idearc Media for sponsored links on Google, Yahoo, & Bing. Going live in about 3 weeks, hope it works like they say. $350.00 per month management fee, and $650.00 per month clicks, their software is state of the art. Will come back here letting everyone know how well it's working.

[Cal]

So far so good! 5 calls, and 3 jobs ain't too bad. Hope this continues~

[Cal]

Well, better let everyone know only 2 weeks running campaign, logging into my account looking over reports Super Media provides, I could quickly tell I was being Wayyyyyyyy overcharged for every keyword. Putting this on pause, providing proof from Google what each keyword average should be costing, this has increased to Super Media's Security Dept. investigating why the overcharges. Lied from the get-go telling me the increase was building my Quality Score. Yes QS increases or gets better, but the better it increases, the lower the cost. And... S/M's software insures this QS is best right off the bat with their dynamic search results, changing ad title for every keyword typed in, the ad title changes which increases the QS. Have been fed a bunch of bunk, and will post what outcome comes from this. But will say Denver's Mgt. team has stopped all calls from me, putting a block on their cell phones, keeping me from contacting them, by which I'm being charged $350.00 per mo. mgt. fee, making no sense either.

I've listed 10 reasons Not to do business with S/M, but if you decide to do business with them, be careful, policing your keywords against Google's Keyword Tool if you ever join S/M. Making sure they don't charge you an exaggerated hyper-inflated figure 4.25 times more than Google's national average. The whole company pride's themselves NOT charging more than what Google charges per click for each individual keyword, but I quickly found out differently.