A few days ago I saw an offer on Red Flag Deals offering a $50 credit to sign up for Yahoo! Search Marketing, so I decided to take the bait and see how it compared to Google Adwords. The only condition to the deal was that I had to deposit a minimum of $5 to get the account going, but I figured that it was well worth it, since I’d be getting basically $50 for free.

I’ve been using the credit towards advertising my Firefox / Google Toolbar conversion site, using keywords like “download firefox” and “free firefox” and, so far, I’m pretty happy with the results. The ads are currently bringing in between 10 and 15 visitors per day, with about 20% to 25% of those visitors eventually downloading Mozilla Firefox from Google. With those types of click-thru counts, the $50 credit should last more than a month, at which time I should have enough data gathered to see if I’d actually be making money by continuing to pay for the service.

So far it looks like it would be worth it, as over the course of 3 days, I’ve used up approximately $3 of my credit, but have seen increases in Firefox conversions by nearly 300%. Overall, my daily Google Adsense revenue has increased to between $5 and $6 per day from about $2 per day, largely due to the Firefox conversions, so I’m pretty excited about that, too.

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