7Search is a hugely popular 3rd tier search engine with buying PPC traffic for arbitrage. Now, 7search has a mass-keyword submission page, but the catch is, if you don’t want to enter your keywords one by one, they won’t let you bid under $0.03. I personally go for some very long tail keywords, and I could rank with only paying $0.01 for them.

7Search was kind enough to leave a small hole/flaw in their system however. They only check the minimum bid via javascript client-side. And as such, there’s two very easy ways around this, which will allow you to bid $0.01 for your mass-added keywords.

Both of these methods have been tested on Firefox, but since I’m running Ubuntu Linux, I can’t test them in IE. I’d appreciate any feedback in the comments from people who’ve tested this in other browsers…. however in theory, it should work on all of them.

Method One
You could essentially overload the Javascript function. While you’re on the mass keyword adding page, enter this in your location bar (as if it were a website URL), and press enter: javascript:function validateBid(a){ } This essentially runs a bit of Javascript on the current page that wipes out their validation function. From here, you can set the bid to $0.01 and it will submit successfully.

Method Two
The second method is a bit more sneaky. It’s just a matter of cheating the order browsers parse the page. First enter your entire keyword list first, leaving the bid as $0.03 so it doesn’t complain. After you’re done, click up and change your bid to $0.01, leaving the cursor in the textbox (it complains as soon as you click or tab away). With your cursor still in the bid box you just changed to $0.01, click directly on the Submit button below your keywords. It will complain that the bid amount is too low, but then it’ll change pages and submit them as $0.01 after all. Simple.

I’m sure they’ll fix this soon, so enjoy it while it lasts. Good luck!

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