Yahoo’s Paid Inclusion is finally dead.
by Chris on Oct.19, 2009, under general
Yahoo (I’m sorry, I’ve lost the enthusiasm for the brand required to call them “Yahoo!”) is putting a long neglected sponsored search program to bed for the last time. No, it’s not their PPC program, though that was long neglected, it is their paid inclusion program — Search Submit.
Search Submit allowed you to pay a fee to guarantee inclusion of your pages in the Yahoo Search index. We actually used that service years ago. It was a convenient way to ensure that you had new pages indexed quickly, and that large sites like ecommerce sites were fully indexed.
These days failure to get your site fully indexed has more to do with poor site design than with failure to cough up some extra cash to Yahoo. And, for commerce sites there is always Yahoo Product Submit.
The program will end at the end of this year. Buh bye.
