Do you think paid inclusion engines are a good investment?

[natasha85]

Hey guys,

Just wondering, since I'm on a shoe string budget now,
would it be wise to go for paid inclusion engines, what are the pros and cons?

And I heard it costs quite a bit too!

Please enlightenment me a little.

[cloud9925]

I would say wait until you have made a little bit of money before including them but that is just because you are on such a budget. I don't know about the rest of you but I have found no easy inexpensive way to do this so make some money and then implement it. I would start out with adsense or something like that where you get a commission and such or clickbank would be another great way to promote your site and get commissions to if you were promoting other sites. Just a thought.

[deankinton]

personaly i would say no becuse people dont use them very often people know that they are incultuions and they want an honist answer to there search

[athmane]

Natasha,

Have a look at this Directory List . Some of the paid-for-inlusion directories there have a high PR and a low fee. If you can afford to make the investment, then I think you should. It will increase your PR and help boost your rankings.

Those that charge a high fee, like Yahoo, Business.com are more prohibitive to those on a shoe-string budget. I would personally rather spend that money on Adwords or a PPC compaign.

[netgal06]

if you are on limited resources, then I think that the money would probably be better spent elsewhere. Whilst directories are effective they are not effective as other marketing measures. Search engines will always remain number one. Directories in my opinions, are only effective for specific industries, as not as many people will think to research directions. However those more in the computing and internet industries would.

[humpty]

Woah.......................
I took a peek at the recommended directory list............

There are soooo many links there, how's anyone ever gonna be able to go thru all of them? And I wonder how much it's gonna cost to be included in all those directories. Freaks me out thinking about it.

Is there a better way, like a low fee, and someone or some companies will do the job for you? In cases like these, I'd rather let someone else handle it, but of course, with so many bogus ones out there, I guess it's hard to find this someone or some companies, who'd do it, honestly instead of taking your money and not do anything good, or not do anything at all about it.

[natasha85]

thanks for all your comments, after trying out some paid inclusion directories with no success, i think it's a bit of a waste of time

perhaps i'm wrong, maybe it's my offer that's not good enuff, but i don't think i wanna go for paid inclusion engines anymore in the future

[humpty]

paid inclusions are effective under certain conditions only,
unless you're a big player and you've got lotsa budget for it, i wouldn't count on paid inclusion engines anymore,

there are better ways to spend the money and get better results

[maggots]

my 2 cents, if you have the budget, go for paid inclusion directories with big players like google and yahoo and msn, and other big players as well

even if you can't get real results from them, you can benefit from the link for PR and ranking purposes, it's not a fast result, fast money type of effort, but in the long run, it pays to be included in those directories

[humpty]

my 2 cents, if you have the budget, go for paid inclusion directories with big players like google and yahoo and msn, and other big players as well

even if you can't get real results from them, you can benefit from the link for PR and ranking purposes, it's not a fast result, fast money type of effort, but in the long run, it pays to be included in those directories

makes sense,
makes a lot of sense......

[littlenicky]

but paid inclusion engines are really expensive, and i'm kinda worried that it might not pay off the "investment"

anyone's got more opinions on this, personal experience with example scenarios perhaps?

[hassen1]

Paid inclusion has always been a tricky concept to explain, but understanding it is important to both webmasters and searchers, as recent changes have suddenly made paid inclusion commonplace with search engines. For webmasters, do these new programs mean that you won't get listed, unless you pay? And for searchers, do these programs present a threat to the quality of your results? Paid inclusion programs mean that, in exchange for a payment, a search engine will guarantee to list pages from a web site. These programs typically do not guarantee that the pages will rank well for particular queries, however. Whether a page ranks well still depends on the search engine's underlying relevancy algorithms.

Given this, why would anyone bother with paid inclusion?

[humpty]

hhmmmm, exactly, wy do people use paid inclusion engines then???

[hassen1]

It’s only a misnormer! Over enthusiasm is another explanation. Ignorance! Being misled!