- Paid inclusion
Paid inclusion is a
search engine marketing product where thesearch engine company charges fees related to inclusion ofwebsite s in theirsearch index . Paid inclusion products are provided by most search engine companies, the most notable exception beingGoogle .The fee structure is both a filter against superfluous submissions and a revenue generator. Typically, the fee covers an annual subscription for one webpage, which will automatically be catalogued on a regular basis. A per-click fee may also apply. Each search engine is different. Some sites allow only paid inclusion, although these have had little success. More frequently, many search engines, like
Yahoo! [cite web|last=Zawodny|first=Jeremy|title=Defending Paid Inclusions|date=2004-03-01 |url=http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/001671.html] , mix paid inclusion (per-page and per-click fee) with results from web crawling. Others, likeGoogle (and as of 2006,Ask.com [cite news|last=Ulbrich|first=Chris|title=Paid Inclusion Losing Charm?|publisher=Wired News|date=2004-07-06 |url=http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,64092,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1] [cite web|title=FAQ #18: How do I register my site/URL with Ask so that it will be indexed?|publisher=Ask.com|accessdate=2006-09-09|url=http://static.wc.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml#18] ), do not let webmasters pay to be in their search engine listing (advertisements are shown separately and labeled as such).Some detractors of paid inclusion allege that it causes searches to return results based more on the economic standing of the interests of a web site, and less on the relevancy of that site to
end-user s.Often the line between pay per click advertising and paid inclusion is debatable. Some have lobbied for any paid listings to be labeled as an advertisement, while defenders insist they are not actually ads since the webmasters do not control the content of the listing, its ranking, or even whether it is shown to any users. Another advantage of paid inclusion is that it allows site owners to specify particular schedules for crawling pages. In the general case, one has no control as to when their page will be crawled or added to a search engine index. Paid inclusion proves to be particularly useful for cases where pages are dynamically generated and frequently modified.
Paid inclusion is a search engine marketing method in itself, but also a tool of
search engine optimization , since experts and firms can test out different approaches to improving ranking, and see the results often within a couple of days, instead of waiting weeks or months. Knowledge gained this way can be used to optimize other web pages, without paying the search engine company.ee also
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