Sitematch question

newbie needs help

[tomasz]

Hi,

I have a question about sitematch. Will i get better placement if I decide to sign up with the program?
If, not what is benefit of being part of the program?

[soapystar]

better placement?...indirectly or maybe even more directly..as you say..otherwise whats the point...for sure you get the frequent refresh so you get to see the affect of page changes and can adjust accordingly....

on the other hand you invite manual review which could see your site banned....

[itisgene]

Benefit:
1. frequent refresh
2. guaranteed INCLUSION (if passed reviews)
3. Slightly better placement (because it was human reviewed.)

Downside:
1. Could get banned at all (from review process)
2. hard to get out (will lose traffic for a while if you quit until you get the natural rankings back.)
3. Could be expensive (you pay for click now as well as for URL)

Overture OFFCIALLY DENY any placement improvement for sitematched sites, but unofficially there is A LITTLE BIT of improvement in the ranking since Overture approved those pages manually.

[Warren]

If your site is clean then why should you be afraid of the quality review process? It is only if you are pushing the boundaries that you would incur a penalty.

The biggest advantage of SiteMatch is you get your pages into the index quickly. Minimal waiting. Then you can use your SEO skills to constantly change on page factors and see what changes these have on your rankings.

[skibum]

If you are already in there for free, and there is in fact no ranking benfit (though it seems like the editorial score might count for something) associated with this program, the only thing that happens is that you get crawled more often and you pay for the traffic instead of getting it for free.

If it would be more desirable to start paying for traffic, then SiteMatch is the way to go. If Y! doesn't currently index the site for some tech reason, then SiteMatch may help to get around that.

[Warren]

Also, depending on how big your site is, you may wish to consider Site Match Xchange. The XML feed based bulk URL inclusion program.