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Understanding SearchEye's Pricing Model
Understanding SearchEye's Pricing Model

SearchEye optimizes publication prices by balancing collaboration requests with sales, ensuring the best value per placement.

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When adding a Publication Offer or Upcoming PR Opportunity to SearchEye, you'll be prompted to specify the number of credits you'd like to earn for each successful placement. We've taken the guess work out of this.

Select Your Pricing Option

SearchEye provides two pricing options:

  • SearchEye Model: This dynamic model sets the optimal price for your offer, maximizing your earnings while attracting a high volume of collaboration requests.

  • Custom Fee: Set the minimum amount you'd like to earn for each offer. You can also set it to $0 if you're not looking to earn credits from the offer.

Which pricing option is best for you?

SearchEye Pricing Model

Custom Fee Model

Consistency

Pricing consistent with current market rates

May be inconsistent (above/below) with current market rates

Updates

Automatically updates based on site improvements

Manual updates required

Optimization

Maximizes credits earned (total)

Maximizes credits earned (per placement)

Exposure

Maximum Exposure on marketplace

Reduced exposure on marketplace

The Custom Fee Model is best for those who understand their pricing and unit economics (i.e. Newspapers and Media Production Companies).

The SearchEye Pricing Model is great for those getting started on the platform and are ready to start receiving collaboration requests.

The right strategy is ultimately the one that's best for YOUR business.

Understanding the SearchEye Model

We'll automatically price your offer to optimize for earned SearchEye credits.

Pricing is adjusted in real-time for fair value, ensuring you are earning the right number of credits for each Publication Offer. We take into consideration:

Brand Integration

This refers to how a brand is integrated into an article. From lowest brand exposure to highest brand exposure:

  1. Link: a simple link that directs the user to a specific resource on the Brand's site

  2. Expert Quote: a quote from a verified expert at Brand's site that provides more context and information about a specific piece of information (up to 1 paragraph)

  3. Brand Mention: up to 3 paragraphs about the brand inside of an article

  4. Interview: an article dedicated to interviewing a verified expert at Brand's site

  5. Full Feature: an article fully dedicated to Brand's site (or specific product)

Earn more: The more exposure that a brand earns in an article, the more SearchEye credits you earn as a publisher.

Article Type

This refers to the types of article edits you're open to:

  • New Article: Write a new article (by default, SearchEye creates) on the Publication website.

  • Existing Article: Edits to an existing article (already published content) on the Publication website.

Earn more: Brands pay a 10-20% premium for New Articles. We recommend both options to maximize earnings.

Domain Rating (DR)

Domain Rating is a great proxy for how authoritative a site is.

Measurement

AHREFs

Impact on Pricing Model

⬆️ Higher DR = More Credits

Many of our publications choose to use their SearchEye credits for more digital PR and link-building. This increases their Domain Rating, increases the number of credits they earn and increases the amount of exposure (and requests) they receive.

Traffic

Measurement

AHREFs

Impact on Pricing Model

⬆️ Higher Traffic = More Credits

Many of our publications choose to use their SearchEye credits for more digital PR and link-building. This increases their traffic, increases the number of credits they earn and increases the amount of exposure (and requests) they receive on the platform.

Want to scale up your content?

Type of Business

SearchEye uses advanced Machine Learning to classify the type of business you have. Generally, an eCommerce site is more valuable than a pure content website.

Here's a list of the types of businesses we support:

The type of business can impact the overall credits paid out to publishers, ranging from -5% to +15%.

Turnaround Time

By default, we provide a range on how much you can earn for each successful placement on your website. We also offer additional bonuses based on turnaround time (from when content is sent to you to live publishing of the article.

Turnaround Time

Bonus Credits

Less than 48 hours

15%

Less than 72 hours

10%

Less than 7 days

5%

Understanding the Custom Fee Model

The Custom Fee Model is more simplistic. You provide the exact fee you'd like to receive for each publication offer (e.g., Brand Mention in a New Article). This model is ideal for those who have a clear understanding of their pricing and unit economics.

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