Bidding On the 7Search Affiliate Network
To increase the amount of traffic you receive from your 7Search campaign, bid for placement across the 7Search Affiliate Network.
The majority of searches that come from 7Search are driven by our Affiliate Network (other search engines, portals and websites). These affiliates combine our 7Search results (your listing) with search results that they get from other providers. These results are usually ordered based on the bid amounts. Even though you may be at the number 1 position on 7Search, your site may be in a lower position on the search results pages of our affiliates.
EXAMPLE: Notice that the second row with a bid of $0.03 is at position 2 on 7Search, but not in the top 5 positions on the 7Search Affiliate Network. The Smart Bid on the Affiliate Network is $0.12, which means that to be in position 1 on the Affiliate Network the bid needs to be at least $0.13.
The 2nd row from the bottom with a bid of $0.03 is at position 1 on 7Search. However, its average weighted position on the Affiliate Network is around 3. To get into position 1 on the Affiliate Network the bid needs to be $0.04 or one cent above the Affiliate Network's Smart Bid).
Note that the "Searches" column under the 7Search and Affiliate Network sections show the approximate number of searches received for the previous month. For the 2nd row from the bottom, the amount of searches that returned the listing in the top position on 7Search is 15, while the number of searches that returned the listing in the 3rd position across the whole Affiliate Network is 14,793. Clearly, if you are interested in getting the benefit of the 1 position (which gets at least three times as many clicks as position 2), you could increase the bid to $0.04 (one cent above the Smart Bid on the Affiliate Network).
Note: The keyword rows that do not contain any values in the Average Position and the Smart Bid columns of the Affiliate Network sections mean that 7Search does not have enough historical data for these keywords.