About Gasta
Started in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1998 Gasta is a global search engine and web directory. Gasta has now launched SearchMatch paid inclusion programs for all 400 of its search engines and sees paid listings as the future of Internet marketing enabling and empowering advertisers to bid on niche Keywords and phrases that are directly related to their business. Gasta organic growth of traffic extends the long tail of keywords and adds added value to all our client campaigns.
Platform
Gasta is written in MVC ASP.NET 3.5, C#, and XML, Javascript
Social Marketing Services
Gasta now offers the ability to share web search results, videos, news items, images, and Blogs with your chosen social networking partner site, Gasta now has social marketing links with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Stumbleupon, Bebo, and Digg. This service not only offers an added value to our users but also greatly assists our advertisers with their social marketing and brand awareness campaigns.
Geo Targeting
Gasta automatically includes effective Geo Targeting of advertising across regions so the user searching in Dublin receives adverts from Dublin and UK Regions and the user searching in New York receives inventory from USA regions.
More than 97% of gasta.com users live and/or work in the regional search areas the index is aimed at. This offers an extremely focused way of targeting prospective customers. Localize to globalize. With Gasta.com you the advertiser only pay for the traffic you receive. Gasta.com has a unique featured Site scheme allows you to directly gear expenditure to traffic. This is the most cost effective method with no wasted clicks.
Diverse User Base
Gasta.com search results are rendered by a network of Search Partners ranging from major Internet brands to organizations who specifically address the Region.
Gasta.com has a more focussed appeal because it is targeted directly to a local audience
Ad Management
24/7 Ad Campaign Management access your account and manage your listings 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with the gasta.com Management and bid System
Opportunities exist for partnerships with Gasta.com as trends suggest that in the near future all search engines will be regionalised. If you have a business idea or would like to partner with the gasta search network in any global region, contact gasta.com.
Gasta white Label solution
The Gasta Hosted white label solution can be launched in a matter of minutes and offers a variety of solutions and ad platforms to Partners.
Partners
Gasta partners include: Microsoft, Google, Miva, ABC Search, Adify, BT, Mirago UK, BBC, Irish Times, Irish News, Belfastmedia group,Foras Na Gaielge,FlashSeek,