Paid Inclusions

Paid Inclusions

Paid inclusion: Paying to be included in a search engine or directory index. Does not improve search rankings but guarantees inclusion of pages a spider might have missed and "respidering" of pages periodically. Also called pay for inclusion (PFI).

In pay for inclusion, site owners pay money to guarantee that they will be included in a search engine's listings in greater depth than might ordinarily occur. Paid inclusion does not guarantee that pages will be ranked well for particular search terms. However, sites enrolling in paid inclusion programs are likely to receive greater traffic than those that don't.

Ask Jeeves

Ask Jeeves Web Properties includes Ask.com, Ask.co.uk, Teoma and Ask Jeeves for Kids. Ask Jeeves is powered by Teoma - a comparatively new crawler-based search engine. Ask Jeeves Web Properties also syndicates its technologies to portals, infomediaries, and content and destination sites (over 50 top-tier sites who utilize Ask Jeeves search and advertising solutions.

Partners: Ask.com, Teoma.com, Metacrawler, Excite, iLor, MySearch.com, MyWay.com, Ixquick, Mamma.com, Hotbot.com, Search123.com

Cost: Yearly subscription for paid inclusion service will cost you (in USD): 1st URL - $30.00; URLs 2 - 1000 - $18.00 each. URLs marked as adult will be charged at double the standard rate.

Tips on submission procedure: Inclusion into the database powering Ask.com and Teoma.com takes at most 7 days. The submitted pages are refreshed every 7 days. The service includes click-thru reporting showing how many visitors have hit your Web Page. Any URLs containing Adult Material must be submitted with their corresponding 'Is Adult' checkbox checked. Failure to do so will void the URL without refund. Adult sites will ONLY be submitted and searchable from the Teoma.com Search Engine.

Enhance Interactive

A yearly subscription guarantees inclusion in search results on Excite, Dogpile, Verizon, WebCrawler and more.

Partners: Canada.com (Meta), Enhance, Excite, Go2Net, InfoSpace, Metacrawler, NBCI, Verizon.net

Cost: 1 URL -- $49.95 (Excite Web Search) , $24.98 (Search Partner Network), $74.93 -- Total package.

Tips on submission procedure: "Step 1: Sign-up for Guaranteed Inclusion.
Step 2: Your Web site will be spidered, and sent to search engines.
Step 3: Excite, InfoSpace, WebCrawler, Verizon and others include your URL's in their results for one full year.

EntireWeb.com

The Entireweb network provides over 100 Million searches per month, this includes sites such as Entireweb, Mamma.com, Ixquick.com, Search66.com and several other search engines on the Internet.

Cost: One-year membership is $24.00. If you would like to order more than 1 URL, contact Entireweb Support.

Tips on submission procedure: Your URL will be added to Entireweb's search index within 2 business days and refreshed every 2 business days for a 12 month period. It is possible to change your URL whenever you want.

Yahoo search

Yahoo! is the the oldest and most important directory that recently became one of the two greatest search engines. In January 2004, Yahoo!'s audience reach was estimated 30,4% in the USA. Yahoo! owns Overture, AllTheWeb, Inktomi and Altavista. Site Match is a program of Overture, a Yahoo! subsidiary. By submitting your site via Site Match, you'll get your site listed on top with major web portals such as Yahoo!, AltaVista, AlltheWeb and other sites.

Partners: Yahoo.com, Regional Yahoo! sites, All The Web, Alta Vista, Anzwers (Australia & NZ)

Cost: Site Match's costs. First URL: $49, next 2-10 URLs: $29 each, 11th URL and beyond: $10 each. Besides the inclusion fee, there is a fixed cost-per-click of either $0.15 or $0.30 depending on the category.

Tips on submission procedure: 1. Sign up and submit your URLs for review and pay an annual fee for quality review of your submitted pages. 2. Once reviewed and accepted into the program, your pages are added to a database of sites that powers search results for major web portals such as Yahoo!, Alta Vista, AllTheWeb and others. 3. When a user clicks your Site Match listing in search results, you pay a cost-per-click fee for that lead. You must maintain a positive balance in your account for your pages to remain active in the program. 4. At the end of one year, your annual subscription renews.

Mirago

A UK-based search engine. Claims to have established partnerships with Ask Jeeves, InfoSpace, FortuneCity, DogPile, Tiskali, Copernic, UKNetGuide, South Online, and IxQuick.

Cost: The fee depend on the indexing frequency: every 7 days - £ 14 per year (first URL), £ 10 per year (each subsequent URL); 48 hours - £ 25 per year (first URL), £ 18 per year (each subsequent URL); 24 hours - £ 44 per year (first URL), £ 32 per year (each subsequent URL). There is also a free submission option for UK-based sites.

Tips on submission procedure: Add the Urls, select how often you want them indexed and specify how you would like the service renewed. Then modify URLs, enter your account, payment details and password.