Comments on: Why Click Guarantees Suck

By: Thomas Peterson

Thomas Peterson — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:31:50 +0000

@John Alexander: You are only partially right. Internet directories can still provide the narrow market for local / national businesses. It does become a rip off, when they oversell, sell “add on” products, such as guarantee click packages or sell products and packages that the business does not need. And yes, guarantee clicks are pretty much a guarantee failure.

@Ed: Since seniority does play a part in internet directory ranking, it is important to have an auto renew to prevent a lapse.

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Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:51:36 +0000

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By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:10:06 +0000

I advertised on yellowpages.com and for 10 months the site generated 24 visitors to my website. This ended up costing about $17 per click, so I of course did not renew the contract.

When I canceled I sent them a registered letter–this is because The Att Yellowpages & yellowpages.com advertising contract states that their contracts will automatically renew unless you provide them written notice before your renewal date.

By: John Alexander

John Alexander — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:59:55 +0000

If you are considering buying yellow page advertising, reconsider quickly.

It is a massive waste of money!!!