Page 3 - how to get traffic from ask.com

IMHO, anyone that pays to be in a directory, except possibly Yahoo, is wasting their money. If you get basically zero traffic from directories, paid or free, why pay? Their only real (?) value is as a backlink. Being in DMOZ will eventually get you into hundreds of directories for free; including Google, AOL, etc. If you are intent on spending your money without getting results, you can send your checks to me. I will guarantee you as much traffic as they give you.

What is clustering tech??? sounds somthing like scsi.. where i can get more information about it

Rustybrick wrote a nice article about Teoma that describes the clustering technology:

Teoma article

Its a bogus search engine. For my category there are 10 ads (from google) at the top of the page. They are formatted exactly like the search results below it. We are #2 in the search results. 1% of search traffic comes from it. Of them we do get a lot of "How do blah, blah, blah do this?"

All that advertising on top and formatted exactly like the search results takes away from their value as a true search engine. Maybe they drive more search traffic outside of the US, and maybe they have a valid search technology but that advertising on top makes the value of their search worthless.

Dave

Teoma is a clean and nice alternative (using the same search technology) to Ask Jeeves

I downloaded the toolbar and regulaly search my site from it. I have been doing this for about 6 weeks but still no cigar.


Ed

The last time I heard someone talk about Ask-Jeeves it was a person that uses AOL and has just about no internet knowledge.....

That's their audience....

I get absolutely no traffic from Ask.

I wonder how much Ask Jeeves traffic is hidden because they frame click-throughs from their SERPs.

Interesting point! They do frame - But I have a feeling it still aint much....

Very humorous to see Ask Jeeves getting constantly dissed on the Ask Jeeves Optimization board One would think the visitors to this board would view it more favorably.

Kadence, why view Ask favourably?

It's a search engine, like any other, a business resource. If it's in the market you shouldn't just ignore it, so we try to work it out and get good listings.

Although, saying that it is complete and utter rubbish in terms of search usability what with all the ads etc.

Not that I'm bitter or anything because the traffic generated even if you're No1 seems to be rubbish, but the only listing I have on Ask is an outdated home page
saying 'Site will go live in June'. I mean come on, Ask/Teoma that's rubbish.

Thing is every now and again their bot turns up and takes just a single page. I'm doing ok in google, yahoo and msn so Ask can go fry as far as I'm concerned because unlike google they can't dictate the market and will never be of any great relevance to free natural search results with that attitude.

I have paid last year for my inclusion in ask jeeves ... And it doesn't worth!

I wasn't trying to say that people should look at Ask favorably. Just that you would think people in this particular board might be more keen on it. Just like if you went on a forum for some niche car company, the people there would tend to like that car company more than people on the forums of other car companies.

I think the fact that even those on this board keep insulting Ask shows how irrelevant it is

getting on top is much easy then getting traffic from ask...

my web site rank on top in a very very competitive keywords but I've got only 8 clicks per weeks from ask compare to google I'm on page 3 with the same keywords, I've got 800 click per week from google

ask.com doesnt have spiders??