If you are like me, you got a vague email from Yahoo/Overture about their new SiteMatch service.
While it was clear that this was a pay-per-click service, it didn’t say much more about its value. Apparently you are guaranteeing that URLs in the program will be crawled and ranked in their new search engine which ‘serves 75% of internet users’. But will those pages rank any higher than sites listed for free? What do I really get for my money?
I turned to the ihelpyou forums for answers. Webmasters and SEOs there likened it to LookSmarts paid inclusion model, which MSN recently dropped. Informative thread, angry thread
The informative thread led to this post by a Yahoo staffer, which helps explains things. SiteMatch allows sites with dynamic URLs and frequently changing content to be indexed on a regular basis. No other real benefit is described. One would imagine that it would also allow URLs that aren’t being indexed to be included, but because SiteMatch has a quality review of submissions, you would think that a URL not worthy of the free index wouldn’t be worthy of a manual approval.
With a static, unchanging website and good rankings on the new Yahoo, I see no reason to join this program.
lowes hires the most illegal or lying people in the market for a job. as a previous employee i can tell you for a fact they dont check the peoples files.
lowes hires the most illegal or lying people in the market for a job. as a previous employee i can tell you for a fact they dont check the peoples files.