In both my own experience and the experience of others, I have not found one successful example of Ask.com working for affiliate marketers. In fact, having spent over $500.00 with these guys, I am sad to report that I have made a big fat zero back on my investment.

Just doing a small search yields some very interesting finds, such as this or this. I'm not normally the one to yell about the sky falling, but damn -- it's not just me saying this.

All anger aside, it seems the problem is the way in which they send traffic to their sites. Even their 'search' network is mainly content-network-based. And in general, it's known that content networks (ads on websites) deliver a lower quality click than those generated on a search engine. This is due to the fact that there are tons of websites out there that attempt to trick users into clicking on their ads for obvious reasons, while search engines don't allow such tom-foolery.

Perhaps when Ask.com alters their PPC (Pay Per Click) engine to include only traffic from its search engine, we'll have a winner but until then, suck eggs Ask!

Now of course I'm not out to bash a company if they aren't sucking, but to the best of my knowledge, Ask.com is hoovering BUT if you've had a different experience, please let me know.

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