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

Ask Jeeves / Teoma Site Submit

View our Paid Inclusion Pricing

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.

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.]

Ask Jeeves / 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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