Anybody signed up for Silver/Gold websearch?

Looking for a few answers

[benflux]

Hi all,

I'm looking to sign up to the Google Silver/Gold websearch [google.com] and have a few questions regarding the customisation you can do.

Anyone using this out there?

TIA

Ben.

[rogerd]

Hi, Benflux, I was just looking at this paid site search option, too - surprising it hasn't gotten much discussion here.

It looks like the Silver search might be less expensive than Atomz paid site search, though perhaps offering a bit less control.

One aspect I've wondered about is page inclusion and spidering frequency. While clearly users of Google's free site search can't make any claims on Google to index additional pages, paid users might feel differently. Someone paying $600 or $2K per month might expect 100% indexing and some control of the frequency of respidering (as Atomz offers).

Assuming that Google uses one big database (as opposed to maintaining a separate site-specific database), some site owners might find these programs attractive for promotion purposes. Those are two big "ifs", of course - whether there are indexing/spidering controls or guarantees, and whether pages included in for a paid site search customer would be fully integrated in the main search database.

Have you actually signed up, benflux? I'm interested comments about this program. One site I manage has outgrown free Atomz search but isn't ready to make the big $$ jump to their lowest paid level.

[benflux]

I'm looking to have google results appear in my sites rather than have my site searched.

When I say Google results I mean general web results show in my site.

[Shak]

ben,

basically you want to become a google syndication partner.

are you just after Natural serps or also Adwords (paid) listings?

Shak

[benflux]

A syndication partner initially until I've got the traffic up to be eligible for Ads too.

I'd probably run my own ads until that occurs.