http://www.websitehits.com/taxonomy/term/15/0 A fee that guarantees a website is included in a directory or search engine. en http://www.websitehits.com/paid-inclusion <p><a class="glossary-term" href="/seo-terms-and-definitions/paid-inclusion"><acronym title="paid inclusion: A fee that guarantees a website is included in a directory or search engine.">Paid inclusion</acronym></a> is a <a class="glossary-term" href="/seo-terms-and-definitions/search-engine"><acronym title="search engine: A system designed to help find information stored on the Web.">search engine</acronym></a> marketing product where the search engine company charges fees related to inclusion of websites in their search index. Paid inclusion products are provided by most search engine companies, the most notable exception being Google.</p> <p>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 <a class="glossary-term" href="/seo-terms-and-definitions/search-engine"><acronym title="search engine: A system designed to help find information stored on the Web.">search engines</acronym></a>, like Yahoo!, mix paid inclusion (per-page and per-click fee) with results from web crawling. Others, like Google (and a little recently, Ask.com), do not let webmasters pay to be in their search engine listing (advertisements are shown separately and labeled as such).</p> <p><a href="http://www.websitehits.com/paid-inclusion">read more</a></p> paid inclusion Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:42:15 -0500 joseph 12 at http://www.websitehits.com