About 1-2 times a month, Jayde Online, publishers of the popular Site Pro News and owners of Exact Seek push rather hard their service, and a few fall for it as they make some pretty good claims:

- Flat Fee
- Featured Listing
- Low Cost ($3-4 a month)
- Top Ten Exposure
- World Wide Placement
- AdWords Replacement

Yes, you read that right, they advertise as a Google AdWords replacement. The problem is, they don’t really spell out where that placement will be, and the site has been hammered in the last few Google PageRank updates, falling all the way down to a PR3, which is below average quality for a site, and really low for a directory. And unlike AdWords where you can actually GET traffic, the same can’t be said when you use ExactSeek’s service.

How do I know? I tested it.

I tested on dozens of sites. The result? A trickle of traffic and no conversions. And I’m not talking about just sales here, I had no REAL signups for free newsletters or free offers. Oh sure I had lots of “traffic” from automated bots, but those were flushed with my captcha verification.

My advice is spend your time and money somewhere else. This isn’t a good place to be.