Getting LOTS of traffic from entireweb

Should I upgrade to their $19 enhanced service?

[bnhall]

Hi, within the last few months we've been seeing a huge increase in traffic from entireweb, many of the hits via mamma. Is this just us or are other folks seeing traffic here as well? I am considering paying $19 for their "enhanced service", ie spidering every 48 hours, higher ranking etc.

[martinibuster]

1: Why would you want to fix something that "ain't broke?"

2: They have a greyed out Google toolbar. I myself wouldn't touch them.

[Ove]

Entireweb are a Swedish company located in Halmstad. The bouth Euroseek when they got bankroupt. They are mixing with the tecnoligy right now. Mamma are using results from entireweb. Entireweb are going to use euroseek´s tecloligy they are working on that right now.
They are also started a PPC engine called Windseek and looking for partners for that one right now. The company behind all this is worldlight.com there is information about that there. Maybe it can be a good engine with euroseeks tecnoligy, there is not to many spider engine out there anymore.
In august they got 117 million queries.
/Ove

[Brad]

I got an email from them because I submitted a URL for free. I think they mentioned that with the $19 upgrade your listing would be part of the enhanced DB exported to meta-search engines and other partners.

I don't know if it is worth that kind of money, but i do get the occasional hit from them. I'm all for encouraging another spidering engine!

[jeremy goodrich]

I'm all for another spidering engine too...but free ones. :)

Since INK has been on a downward spiral, and they were the company that invented pay for inclusion spidering, I think the rest of the companies looking to bite into it had best evaluate their business decision to go that route.

Just my opinion of course.

[Reno]

I find myself in agreement with martinibuster, and somewhat disagreeing with Jeremy. If it was me, I'd let it ride for now but I'd also monitor my results - if they start to drop off, pay the $19.

Personally, I do not expect the search engines to do anything for me for free. They have employees and thus expenses, so a moderate charge ($19) strikes me as completely reasonable *if they deliver traffic*. Entireweb, with its Euroseek database, is a big enough player to justify that charge.

Where it goes beyond reasonable (in my opinion) is when the charge is over-the-top, as in Yahoo's $300 per year. The fees of Inktomi, AskJeeves/Teoma, Lycos, AltaVista, et al, are in the gray zone. If they were smart, they'd embrace the Entireweb model and keep their charges very affordable. The higher they go, the less participation they will see, and the more marginal they'll become. So there is a fine balance to be sure, but as I said, anything under $25 strikes me as ok as long as it comes with ongoing traffic. If after a year I do not see the numbers that I expect, then I would drop them.