Search engines - companies charging to register

[Scoobyworld]

Hi folks, bit of advice required....

Basically I run a business selling Subaru parts via our web site and mail order and after contacting several companies regarding search engine registration have been approached by a company offering to register us with all of the engines (well pretty much all!) and ensure us a top 10 placement (obviously using certain keywords, i.e. Subaru parts) for £2k a year.

Now this sounds expensive to me for something which we could do ourselves (plenty of sw around to do this). However thay have provided plenty of evidence of previous customers hits increasing 10 fold on using their service and if this is true it could work wonders for the business.

So my question(s) is...has anyone any experience of these companies/services? do they work? is it worth the money? should I be cautious? is it such a good offer that I should bite their hand off up to the elbow? ;-)

any help much appreciated

Neil

http://www.scoobyworld.co.uk

 

[SPYDERIX]

There are free search engines and there are pay search engones.

The free ones, you can submit to yourself, and it takes about a month to get noticed on search engines. I wouldn't go via these people who want to charge, becasue basically what they are doing is: paying for your site to be in the top 10 postitions on the pay engines, and then charging you a service to do it.

If you want to pay to have your site be # 1 then you can always do that yourself.

Also, if you get a program that analyses your web page (ie-web position gold (30 day free trial)), then you can optimize your page with the guided instructions of the program.

For you, I wouldn't pay some guy to do this for you unless, you don't know much about html and changing certain parts of your website, to suit the search engines criteria.

One good side of paying these companies to do it is, I believe they monitor your site for a whole year, and constanly make sure it stays in the top 10.

Your choice. If you need to do alot of business, and you are relying on your web page as advertisment and using it for sales, then maybe going through one of these companies is the answer. But if you are so concerned with having your web page as being your main source of advertising and you are capable in html and web building then I'd just get the program to help you out.
Nate
"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space!"

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

Personally, I wouldn't pay the money unless that is the last option..

At present, you are #1 in MSN. I don't have time to check any others but instead of paying them this money, why not go to Yahoo and pay for a listing there? For that money, you could get adverts on Google etc, as well.

I don't know how these sites can guarantee that they will get you a top 10 position, they have as much chance as anyone else as long as the site is properly optimised.

I'll tell you what, pay me the money and I will get you to #1!! LOL

Also another suggestion but for a very good reason I cannot post it here.. Contact me at william_nisbet@hotmail.com and I will let you know.. Just for anyone who thinks I am hiding something from them, I am not, it is just something that I really cannot post here. And I gain nothing from this, it is not a sales pitch..

Hope this helps Wullie

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.searchit-now.co.uk

http://www.survivorhelp.co.uk

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

Just another question, is

http://www.scoobymania.co.uk

also your site?

I just assumed because of the Scooby that it was yours..

Hope this helps Wullie

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.searchit-now.co.uk

http://www.survivorhelp.co.uk

 

[bethabernathy]

Hi - See my chart at:

http://www.integratedresourcemgmt.com/searchenginenews.html

It lists the Search Engines and Directories that have payment options. It also provides direct links to the free submission sections for the Search Engines under the Description Section. It is really easy to use. Personally, I would not pay the Search Engines for a listing as most don't really guarantee anything. But I was lucky and got two free commercial listings on Yahoo for a site I work on and do have to admit that their traffic has really increased with the categorical placement. The other option is Inktomi. They charge about $49. and partner with AOL, Overture, HotBot, Iwon, Looksmart, MSN, and Anzwers. They crawl through and refresh your site every 48 hours. That one is also well worth paying for.

Definately, use my chart and start out on your own. The metatags are critical. Do not use adjectives in your tags, they don't help at all, only cause problems.

Beth

beth@integratedresourcemgmt.com