soapystar - 5:57 pm on May 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

uffff, I dont want to argue, just wake up and smell the coffee. Of course you can pay just for inclusion - $299.
>>no. that doesnt get you into the serps. Theoretically it will get you crawled (they say)but thats another matter of debate. It also wont get you past a ban.

>>Same thing for google - you pay me, I'll place your link on my home page and your website will be indexed within 3 days - i guarantee you. <<
yes, but im not sure what this has to do with the original topic of debate which was about being banned from yahoo.

>>If you want to go cheap - please, do. You know what I think of when I read your posts - the "free" signs on the side of the road " Make $500 a day working from home". >>
thats peculiar because most of my posts are not about me personally. They are about my views on the way Yahoo are proceeding. I dont ask for a free lunch. I think its fair to point out the frailties inherrent in their current policy.

>>You either play the game by the rules or you dont play the game. If you decide to start a home based internet business, you need a business plan as any other "real world" business. <<
Yes.

>>If you have non-profit website - you dont have to be "top of the search engine" - you will have a community. If you dont - your site is useless. I dont see any blogs as #1 for my keywords, but some still get thousands of hits daily. <<
I dont think this is true at all. Many information sites are not based around communities. I dont follow that logic at all. It also skips over the pont that we are talking about the search engines ability to find them. Its not a case of needing to be top, its a case of hopefully they WILL be top.

>>And nothing wrong in getting thousands of hits. Isn't that what we all want? <<
i dont recall saying there was anything wrong with that. I said not companies can make it pay given that its not even based on your own paid for keywords. Many can make i pay, many cant or are non-profit is what i said.

>>Let's drop this...<<
ooops! didnt spot that till the end. next time put that at the beginning. :-)