Is Bing costly?

[prasanth5]

Advertising certainly costs a dime? How much Bing charge per click? Do they encourage contextual advertising too?

[synchar]

I believe Bing is a lot like Google in that it depends on how successful your ads are. So if you only get one click per 10000 views, they will charge you quite a bit, but if you get 1 per 100 they won't charge much at all.

The thing I don't like about Bing advertising is that there is and entrance free of like $50. I'm pretty sure that you get $50 worth of advertising but if you only want to do, say $20 worth of advertising, your just out of luck.

[Lukehluke]

$50?

Not many people will want to do that as Google only has a $5 or $10 starting fee.

[synchar]

$50?

Not many people will want to do that as Google only has a $5 or $10 starting fee.

Google sorta does the same thing, you get billed once you hit $50. The difference between the two is Bing requires you to pay it up front, Google just won't charge you till you hit $50 (or enough time passes I think).

[prasanth5]

I hope with this payment system Bing delivers quality visitors to your site like google. In that case Bing should be good.

[synchar]

I hope with this payment system Bing delivers quality visitors to your site like google. In that case Bing should be good.

I've not heard anything bad about Bing's advertising. I expect that means it's okay atleast. I gotta say though, as a Bing user, I don't see a 10th the ads I see when I use Google and the ads I do see are very targeted.

[prasanth5]

Of late Bing presents itself frequently on the web which means its team is working hard to put basics in place.

[synchar]

Of late Bing presents itself frequently on the web which means its team is working hard to put basics in place.

Do you mean they have been advertising a lot? If so I think that has to do with spending $100 million on advertising more than the team working hard.

Although, I should say that the Bing team is working hard and rolls out new features every couple of months.

[prasanth5]

Ha.Ha. Well said. I was trying to say that Bing was presenting itself by way of its good doings.

[sai_sidd]

I think its a lot like google. It depends on how successful your ad is.