Comments on: CitySearch Pays Google $100 Million a Year?

By: Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search » Has Google’s relationship with CitySearch changed? and other Maps insights

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:30:40 +0000

[...] dropped their “trusted” source relationship with CitySearch. It was but a year ago that much was made of the CitySearch-Google partnership. I looked at an account/phrase that I track regularly [...]

By: Are Local Advertising Networks Doomed to Failure? - BlogSoop

Are Local Advertising Networks Doomed to Failure? - BlogSoop — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:10:46 +0000

[...] are coming from this ‘network’. Citysearch reports twenty million unique visits per month. If, as some figures claim, they’re spending $100 million annually on AdWords (one-third of their purported revenues), the [...]

By: Citysearch Takes Advertisers For a Ride - BlogSoop

Citysearch Takes Advertisers For a Ride - BlogSoop — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:57:32 +0000

[...] A Citysearch PR Rep discussed the role of paid search listings with Peter Krasilovsky, “Currently, we have a relationship with Google that not only sends traffic to Citysearch.com but to our customers’ websites as well. This product directly connects our customers’ websites to consumers searching for their type of business across our partner network.” [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:01:04 +0000

Is the how much Google is getting paid for placing adsense on CitySearch pages or how much CitySearch is paying Google for itself and on behalf of its customers ?

If it is how much is being paid, that would either make CS very large or very unprofitable. I don’t think it is that large at all and no way IAC has it that unprofitable.

By: Interactive in Chicagoland » Blog Archives » CitySearch Pays Google $100 Million a Year?

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:47:01 +0000

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By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 05:23:45 +0000

Mike Orren from a new site named Pegasus News has this to say on the Kelsey Blog, which syndicates Local Onliner.

“Currently, we have a relationship with Google that not only sends traffic to Citysearch.com but to our customers’ websites as well. This product directly connects our customers’ websites to consumers searching for their type of business across our partner network. ”

Err. As someone obsessed with local market media and advertising, I’ve seen lots of the google ads they refer to coming up on our sites. They are ads that purport to take you to a broad category of info and instead take you to a tangentially relevant single-business page on Citysearch.

“As you know, we offer our customers a broader reach than any other local advertising provider in the market and we are committed to continually expanding that reach.”

Heh. Wait until they get a load of us…

By: SK

SK — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 05:00:26 +0000

Normally love your column, but you’re going to lose a lot of credibility with me for reading Bogatin “religiously”. She grossly misrepresents facts and clearly has some personal bone to pick with Google. This is just another example where her theories are way off.