Risks associated with paid inclusion programs

varun1182 · #1 (**permalink**) 22nd June 2006, 01:45 AM

The biggest risk with paid inclusion is that you could pay a lot for guaranteed listings, but not achieve high rankings. Since the majority of searchers never look beyond the first 40 search results
The cost is another important consideration if u have limited financial resources.
. Also your place in the results depends on how well your site suits the search engine ranking algorithms - which change often.
So even if you have the financial resources to take advantage of paid inclusion programs, you still need to optimize your site optimize your site for search engines,

littlenicky · #2 (**permalink**) 28th October 2006, 09:13 AM

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The biggest risk with paid inclusion is that you could pay a lot for guaranteed listings, but not achieve high rankings. Since the majority of searchers never look beyond the first 40 search results
The cost is another important consideration if u have limited financial resources.
. Also your place in the results depends on how well your site suits the search engine ranking algorithms - which change often.
So even if you have the financial resources to take advantage of paid inclusion programs, you still need to optimize your site optimize your site for search engines,

this is exactly why i'm so hesitant to go for paid inclusion programs

I'm so worried that it would end up being a waste of my money and time

hilliebillie · #3 (**permalink**) 2nd November 2006, 02:19 AM

hei nicky

risks are a way fo life and a way fo business too
take calculated risks, and pray hard lol

else, you won't go anywhere far in the end either

misteralan · #4 (**permalink**) 3rd December 2006, 02:54 PM

I've been designing web pages for a while, and what I've found out is this. You can make a good site, submit it to drectories like dmoz and such for FREE, and if your website is anywhere near good, search engines will pick up on it and it will be listed. The rankings depend on how you put your website together and the quality of content and links you have. Thats about it really.

rowenahere · #5 (**permalink**) 25th December 2006, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by “varun1182”

The biggest risk with paid inclusion is that you could pay a lot for guaranteed listings, but not achieve high rankings. Since the majority of searchers, never look beyond the first 40 search results…

Thank you for your piece of information, varun1182 , I was enlightened. However, paid inclusion programs are appealing, really. Well, optimizing one’s Site for the search engine is quite a vague idea for me. How do you do that? How are optimizations being processed? Could you add other features for paid inclusion engines? Are what you are talking about similar to my encounters in using search engines that request for some payment before I could possibly activate their sites? Thank you!

rowenahere · #6 (**permalink**) 25th December 2006, 06:27 AM

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Originally Posted by “littlenicky”

… I am so hesitant to go for paid inclusion programs
I am so worried that it would end up being a waste of my money and time.

littlenicky, everybody seems hesitant to try a program that entails shelling of some amounts (especially of bigger costs) because such is almost similar to gambling. However, if we will be more educated about paid inclusion programs and we would not just simply live out based on our ignorance, I believe we would highly appreciate paid inclusion programs. Honestly, I knew little about the programs because I have not tried any of the paid inclusion programs. Probably, if there is someone who could orient us about the gray areas in matters about paid inclusion programs, I myself will be appreciative and I might appreciate the programs.

rowenahere · #7 (**permalink**) 25th December 2006, 06:28 AM

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Originally Posted by “hilliebillie”

risks are a way of life and a way of business too
Take calculated risks, and pray hard lol

else, you won't go anywhere far in the end either

Risks in using paid inclusion programs are always part of life. There are always first time experiences; thus, in every first try and first attempts, there are always the tantamount risks because no one knows how the attempt would turn out. In the field of business, gambling is a way of life; because a business entrepreneur gambles his/her capitals for uncertainty. In using paid inclusion programs, risks are present. Would you risk your bloody money? Would you just remain as traditionally natured as you are and remain forever ignorant about the new technological innovations?

astros99 · #8 (**permalink**) 25th December 2006, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by varun1182

The biggest risk with paid inclusion is that you could pay a lot for guaranteed listings, but not achieve high rankings. Since the majority of searchers never look beyond the first 40 search results

That's really true. Think about it. When we do searches on search engines, how deeply into the search engines do we go. I know that I usually don't even go past the first few pages unless I'm desperate to find information on the subject. More than likely if you can't find the information your looking for in the first few pages you probably won't be able to find it at all.

rowenahere · #9 (**permalink**) 26th December 2006, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by astros99

...When we do searches on search engines, how deeply into the search engines do we go. I know that I usually don't even go past the first few pages unless I'm desperate to find information on the subject. More than likely if you can't find the information your looking for in the first few pages you probably won't be able to find it at all.

In my case, when I do my research on the Web, in as much as I can, I do rummage whatever the net can provide me. I am usually desperate to find the needed information. Thus, I do exhaust every possible keyword I know in order for me to be linked to the sources of my needed bits of information.

Search engines are very valuable to anyone. These can easily direct the researcher to the targeted cache of information

humpty · #10 (**permalink**) 27th December 2006, 03:55 AM

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I've been designing web pages for a while, and what I've found out is this. You can make a good site, submit it to drectories like dmoz and such for FREE, and if your website is anywhere near good, search engines will pick up on it and it will be listed. The rankings depend on how you put your website together and the quality of content and links you have. Thats about it really.

those free ones, can they really give you good results?
coz if they're free, i'm sure everypne grabbing a spot thee already right, so, how tiny can you be when you're one of the millions listed there?

Chikkar20 · #11 (**permalink**) 9th April 2008, 09:45 AM