Before you become a User Making a decision What is pay-per-click keyword advertising? A Pay Per Click (also known as Pay Per Ranking, Pay Per Placement or Pay Per Position) search engine enables you to list your site at the top of the search engine results. You pay only when a searcher or clicker (I use these terms interchangeably) clicks on your listing and connects to your site. You don’t pay to list, you only pay for clicks or click-throughs. You advertise and drive traffic to your website by selecting keywords that refer to your product or service. PPC search engines allow the market to determine how much you will pay for each keyword. For each keyword, you determine how much you are willing to spend. The higher you bid the higher you will appear in the search results. Popular keywords with many bidders means higher pay-per-click rate per position you want. For example, you may wish to bid $.24 for the word "lavender" to appear as the first choice searchers see when they search for the term "lavender". If a competitor of yours chooses to bid $.35 for that top position, your competitor will get the #1 position, and you will be moved to #2. Smedia PPC+ provides tools to help you prevent this and for managing thousands of keywords. Using pay-per-click keyword advertising with a PPC search engine is a great way to drive targeted traffic to your site because you only pay for actual clicks to your site. It is risk free and a cheaper alternative to listing with the bigger search engines. top What does Smedia PPC+ do? From one simple interface, Smedia PPC+ allows you to automatically maximize your bids maintaining position, capping bids and eliminating bid gaps on top pay-per-click search engines such as Overture (formerly GoTo), Overture-UK, FindWhat, Sprinks, Ah-ha, Kanoodle and eSpotting. This saves you money and achieves higher click through rates. Updates can be daily or as often as the search engines allow! If you need customized bid strategies, just let us know. sales@smedia.info top Should I have a search engine account before I register with Smedia PPC+ Yes. We must be able to scan the search engine to retrieve you terms and account information. To do this, go directly to a supported search engine, such as Overture, and sign up. After the search engine has created and approved your account, return here. top How many pay-per-click search engines do you support? Smedia PPC+ helps you manage accounts at: Overture (formerly GoTo), Overture-UK, FindWhat, Sprinks, Ah-ha, Kanoodle, eSpotting, BrainFox, 7Search, and Bay9 . If you have an interest in having Smedia PPC+ manage accounts on a PPC search engine we currently do not serve, let us know and we may add it. To let us know what search engines you want, email us at sales@smedia.info. top Will Smedia PPC+ add more search engines? We are always in the process of reviewing and integrating additional search engines. Please let us know which search engines your would like to see Smedia PPC+ manage at sales@smedia.info. top What happens when I sign up with Smedia PPC+? Once you sign-up with Smedia PPC+, within 24-48 hours we will scan your accounts and create a report of your search terms or keywords, you will be notified by email that your account is ready. At that time, you can login to your Smedia PPC+ account and see the reports for your search engine accounts. Please take a look to make sure that our accounting of your search terms is correct. Newly set-up search engine accounts may be delayed, pending approval. top How will I know if it's for me? Smedia PPC+ offers a 7-day, no questions asked, money-back guarantee. Give it a try. top Is my personal information safe with Smedia PPC+? Smedia PPC+ will not disclose or sell any personal information from its customers to third parties without your express permission. top Do I have to give my pay-per-click search engine account usernames and passwords? Yes, Smedia PPC+ uses the usernames and passwords of your pay-per-click search engine accounts to monitor and make changes to keyword list rank and bid amounts for you. top Fees and costs Is there a setup fee? No. top How much does it cost? Smedia PPC+ offers a variety of services and payment plans to let you choose only what you need. To see the complete schedule of service and pricing, go to our Services and Pricing page. top How am I billed? Smedia PPC+ charges your credit card after your 7 day Free Trial. When you first sign-up, we will send you an email stating that your account is ready. Your next month's payment will be on a 30 day cycle. Credit card information is secure and not accessible to anyone outside of Smedia PPC+ and your credit card provider. top How will I be billed if I sign-up in the middle of the month? The first charge to your account will be for a full month. At the beginning of the next, 30 day cycle of service. top Product Definitions What are Premium Search Terms? You set your Premium Search Terms, in the far left column check box of the View/Manage Bid page, to be scanned as often as the search engine allows. There is an additional cost of $0.50/£.50 per term, per month for this service. The text link "Bulk updates" allows you to manage the number of Premium search terms you assign in a month. top What is AutoPosition? We'll automatically maintain the positions you specify, without exceeding your specified bid amounts, for all your search terms, on all your search engines! You can set auto-positions and maximum bid amounts by search engine or by individual search term. top What is MoneySaver? We'll save you money by automatically monitoring, and eliminating, price gaps for each of your search terms, on all your search engines, once a day, as often as the search engine allows. top

New User Information Login help I've created my Smedia PPC+ account, but can't log in. Once we have scanned your search engine accounts, you will receive an email stating that your account is ready. At that time, you can login to your Smedia PPC+ account and see the reports for your search engine accounts. top What should I do if I forget my Smedia PPC+ account login information? Please send an email to sales@smedia.info. Make sure to send the email from the account and the email address that is registered on your Smedia PPC+ account, also please include your account number if possible. We will not give out your Smedia PPC+ username and password over the phone for your own security. Always protect your username and password and if written down, keep in a safe place. top Managing your Smedia PPC+ account What happens if I cancel my account? We hope this never happens, but you may cancel your Smedia PPC+ account any time. Your bill is paid for any given month of service and not refundable after the first week free trial. We will cancel your service, effective at the end of the month. Just send us an email letting us know. If you have the time, please tell us why you are canceling. This will help us become a better service for others and for you, when you decide to rejoin! top Can Smedia PPC+ manage multiple accounts on the same search engine? If you have multiple accounts on the search engines, we need to know which ones you want Smedia PPC+ to manage, therefore we will need your search engine account numbers. This may require the creation of several Smedia PPC+ accounts. All of your accounts can be accessible from a drop down menu from any of your Smedia PPC+ logins. top Can I change my pay-per-click search engine accounts that Smedia PPC+ manages? You can log into your Smedia PPC+ account and change your pay-per-click search engine usernames and/or passwords and or add new search engine accounts. If Smedia PPC+ does not have your current username and password for a particular search engine account, then it cannot access the account to manage your search terms. If you are adding additional accounts to ones you already have, such as multiple Overture accounts, please email customer service at sales@smedia.info. top Will anyone else have access to any information about or from my Smedia PPC+ account? No, your Smedia PPC+ account is strictly confidential. Carefully safeguard your username and password to prevent unauthorized access. We will never sell or use your information. top What if I don't want Smedia PPC+ to manage all of my search terms? Since we actually login to your search engine accounts, we cannot discriminate between search terms to manage. To achieve a break out of only those search terms you want us to manage, you can set up multiple search engine accounts or contact us at sales@smedia.info and we will create a custom term list for you. top Does Smedia PPC+ use a secure server? Smedia PPC+ uses a secure server link for signing-up and paying for Smedia PPC+ services and reporting. Note: Our secure server link does not work with some older web browsers for the PC or the Mac OS and we have provided an alternative. top Billing Can I add/transfer funds to my search engine accounts through Smedia PPC+? No. You must manage payments directly with the search engines. If an account with a search engine becomes depleted, we will not be able to manage your account. As soon as you login to Smedia PPC+, you will see a report showing how much money you have in your search engine accounts. top If my pay-per-click search engine account becomes depleted of funds, am I eligible for a refund from Smedia PPC+ not being able to manage my accounts? No, it is your responsibility to provide funds to your pay-per-click search engine accounts. top Managing your search engine accounts What happens if I add or delete search terms from my search engine accounts? There is a Search Engine Synchronization button in the "Tools" section available after you login. We automatically scan your search engine accounts once each week to check for any search terms that may have been added or removed. (Please remember that we will not be able to scan new terms until approved by the search engines, which may take a few days). top How does Smedia PPC+ count search terms on my search engine accounts? We count the total number of unique search terms you have across all of the search engine accounts you register with us. For example, ten of the same search terms on each of five search engines totals 10 search terms. We use the total number of unique search terms to determine which payment plan applies to your Smedia PPC+ account. top How often will my search engine accounts be scanned? For our standard service we'll scan all of your search terms, on all your search engines, twice each day. If you select the Premium option, we'll update those terms as often as the search engine allows. top Can I immediately change a bid on my search engine accounts from Smedia PPC+? When you need to change a bid, on any of your search engines, simply change it on your Bid Status Report, and we'll immediately make the change for you, just as if you were logged into each search engine and made the changes directly. Please remember: setting a bid manually overrides your AutoPosition settings. top What happens if my competition is also using Smedia PPC+ or a similar service? An automated bidding war could take place just like it does when manually monitoring and adjusting bids. The only resolution to this is to let the market determine the "right" price. Whether manually or automatically doing so, a bidding level will be reached that no one is willing to exceed. Then, there will be opportunities at the other positions that give a great return for the your investment. top