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Paid Inclusion / Paid Indexing
Services
Many of the major search engines now offer what's called a Paid
Inclusion service. Also known as paid indexing and paid spidering, these
services are basically a way to guarantee your site is kept in a search
engine's database and regularly indexed.
The major benefit to paying for inclusion is that it ensures your web
site title and description is regularly updated in the search engine,
meaning users of the search engine will always see your most up to date
listing. It is also useful for testing various titles and descriptions
to see which ones achieve more click-thru's and for sites constantly
tweaking their HTML code to achieve a better ranking with the search
engine's algorithm.
Below is an outline of the various paid inclusion options and what you
get for your money:
Overture SiteMatch (New!)
SiteMatch is a way to get your site content discovered through
Yahoo's extensive network of Web Search partners, including Inktomi,
AltaVista, FAST, Lycos, AllTheWeb and Yahoo Search. SiteMatch
includes your most valuable content in the indexes of these engines and
keeps the content fresh with 48 hour updates for a one year subscription
period.
Submissions to SiteMatch consist of a review fee and a CPC (Cost per
click) component. Billing, reporting and account management for
SiteMatch listings is provided by Yahoo partner Trellian. More
information is available
here on their site. Our fee to submit a site to SiteMatch is
USD35 per URL, plus SiteMatch’s own annual review fees of:
Price Structure (effective 1st March 04)
Price per domain (USD):
1st URL
$49.00 each
URLs 2-10
$29.00 each
URLs 11-1,000 $10.00 each
In addition to the review fee, there is now also a per click fee of
either $0.15 or $0.30, depending on the category of the content. (The
complete list of categories is listed on the
PrioritySubmit site in the SiteMatch section).
More Info: To submit your own site to SiteMatch or read more
Click Here
[Web Rank has not yet used this service, so will hold off any
recommendation until we trial it.]
AskJeeves / Teoma Site Submit (Recommended)
AskJeeves / Teoma Site Submit is a way to get your site content
discovered through Ask's extensive network of Web Search partners,
including Ask.com, Teoma.com, Metacrawler, Excite, iLor, MySearch.com,
MyWay.com, Ixquick, Mamma.com, Hotbot.com and Search123.com Site
Submit includes your most valuable content in the indexes of these
engines and keeps the content fresh with 48 hour updates for a one year
subscription period.
Program features include:
- Submit between 1 & 1,000 URLs
- Rapid inclusion - generally within one week
- 12-month inclusion subscription
- Pages checked and updated every week
- Reporting on click throughs
Price Structure (effective 1st March 04)
Price per domain (USD):
1st URL
$30.00 each
URLs 2-1,000 $18.00 each
Billing, reporting and account management for Site Submit listings is
provided by AskJeeves partner ineedhits. More information is available
here on their site.
Our fee to submit a site to Site Submit is USD15 per URL, plus
AskJeeve's own annual review fees of:
Price Structure (effective 1st March 04)
Price per domain (USD):
1st URL
$49.00 each
URLs 2-10
$29.00 each
URLs 11-1,000 $10.00 each
More Info: To submit your own site to AskJeeves or read more
Click Here
[Web Rank uses this service for our own sites. As the AskJeeves/Teoma
database is an important one that feeds other engines & directories, we recommend using
this service for at least the home pages of each domain you wish to
promote.]
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