MS Live is a dud and I am mad. Are they blind? I send an incredible number of unique users to Google every month and I am just a small fish. Many send much more than me. Why do I do this for Google? BECAUSE THEY PAY ME !!! When MS announced Live over a year ago, I was absolutely giddy with dreams of MS and Goog battling each other by trying to get me to send my users into their networks. Picturing fat white men in suits and goatees reaching into duffle bags to grab huge wads of cash and throw them at me screaming "Be my friend! We love you!". Yeah, I use Adcenter. In addition to Adwords and Panama. My budget on Adcenter is never spent. Not even a tenth is ever spent and I gladly pay more per click there than at the other search engines. I just don't get the impressions needed to spend it all This all comes back to Lives' poor traffic (poor only in numbers but often better for conversions). If you paid us more than Google to put a Live search box on our pages or to show Adcenter ads, we would send all of that traffic to you and every month millions of users will be sent to Live so often that they will trust it more than Google. Guess what happens then. So what is it MS? Do you not have enough money to do this? Have you become a bureaucratic behemoth full of employees who pass the buck? I suspect the latter. Maybe you could get back to your old style and hire some smart kids, give them a house full of computers to live in rent free, unlimited pizza and pot and tell them to copy Adsense et voila! Remember when this was the way it worked ? Aaaah, I feel better now. Comments?
I'd have to agree. My AdCenter budget was barely dented, so I added more keywords, broad and longtail, and still no dent. Not to mention, I'm #1 in Live for some keywords, and I get 1/8 the traffic I get being #4 in Google for the same keywords.