Pay for inclusion

Paying to Get in the Major Search Engines

We used to have all kinds of tips on spending some of your ad dollars on pay-for-inclusion. However, this is a declining business model only used by a few minor search engine that aren’t worth your time.

Here is my take on where to put your pay for inclution dollars - nowhere. If you happen to find one, please don’t wast your money on pay for inclusion when you can get in all the search engines free with strong Text links pointing at your web site.

Intomi, Fast! and Alta Vista all gave up on pay for inclusion so the could compete with Google’s “free” listing. Because no one is paying to get their site listed, they did not have much of a database of sites to search agains.