Internet Marketing Company | Visiture » Paid Inclusion http://www.visiture.com Internet Marketing Company in Charleston SC Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:45:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Yahoo! to End Paid Inclusion Program http://www.visiture.com/blog/yahoo/paid-inclusion/ http://www.visiture.com/blog/yahoo/paid-inclusion/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:34:05 +0000 amber http://www.visiture.com/?p=1541 Yahoo! has announced that it will be ending the Paid Inclusion Program (previously known as the Search Submit Program) at the end of the year with the upcoming Microsoft merger.  Yahoo has been both praised and criticized for its paid inclusion program.  It allows advertisers to pay to be included on the page of search results, but not pay for rank.  However, it did create a monopoly with certain competitive search terms because people were able to optimize their sites using keywords.  How does this affect Visiture customers?  ”Many web developers feel that the loss of paid inclusion will jumpstart pay-per-click ads and other smaller online marketing practices.”

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Source quoted, image credit: David Liu, Resource Nation

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