Paid Inclusion: current status?

Hi, Paid Inclusion into search engines is a topic that I'm trying to brush up on but can't find much written about since 2004. I have the basics understood, but can someone bring me up to speed on why I can't find any recent articles or forums posts at all on this topic? Thanks for any insight.

That's because people wised up and realized that you don't nave to neccessarily pay to get indexed. Yahoo will spped up your inclusion for a fee but I would just create 3 site maps and submit your sites by hand. Don't forget DMOZ.

Backlinks will also help if they are from ranking sites, or sites that are being crawled.

The 3 sitemaps are a .txt listing only your urls, an .xml you can create for free, just search for it, and a standard GUI sitemap for end-users.

Search for free submitters too. They are available everywhere.

Goodluck!

Thanks for the response. I take it to mean that paid inclusion is really only useful for sites with so many pages that Yahoo and the smaller engines wouldn't normally index them all. If that's the gist, and there's not much more useful about Paid Inclusion, then that's a wrap, thanks for the help.

Almost, but it's a waste for larger sites too.